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Did the communists in the Soviet Union also accuse their political enemies of racism and violence to silence their voice?

like what is happening in the US?

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  • Anonymous
    5 days ago

    The Soviet Union was never communist. Not even close. It was much closer to a dictatorship.

  • Anonymous
    5 days ago

    Yes...........................

  • 5 days ago

    No, they just "Locked them Up!" 

  • Yes
    Lv 4
    5 days ago

    They definitely did!  They also called everyone from social democrats to monarchists, "fascists", and themselves as of course the virtuous "anti-fascists", justifying violence.  Look at modern-day Antifa.  If it quacks like a duck...

    “Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest terrorism. For this reason it is secretly preparing itself for rule through fear and is driving the word ‘justice’ into the heads of the half-educated masses like a nail so as to rob them of their reason… and to create in them a good conscience for the evil game they are to play.”

    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878

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  • Anonymous
    5 days ago

    Yes. They accused them of being counter revolutionaries and enemies of the state to oppose their socialist hellholes 

  • Anonymous
    5 days ago

    They used false accusations of crime, sending political opponents to prison.

    Stalin was fond of saying "Lock Her UP!"

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 days ago

    No, they just cut to the chase and imprisoned or shot dissenters. I can imagine there’s a lot of communist Americans that wish they could follow suit. 

  • Edwena
    Lv 7
    5 days ago

    Not racism.  They were accused of not having the communist mindset.  Which could get you shot.

  • PIE
    Lv 5
    5 days ago

    Today, Vlad. just poisons his opposition.

  • 5 days ago

    Yugoslavia was easy breakup. 

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