soviettatersI've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course)
ImOnADiet🇵🇸 (He/Him)I see just as much if not more complaining about “tankies” as on subs like subredditdrama, it’s not that leftist
I literally saw a guy earlier today in that one large memes thread trying to convince people that Eastern European countries yearn for the USSR days.
Only tankies try to do that lol.
A lot of people there do yearn for the return of the USSR. You can argue about why, but the polling is quite clear that many people miss socialism
diegeticscream[all]🔻“Ask people from Socialist countries what they thought”?
“Wait, not those people”.
SoleInvictusWhy respond honestly to a response when you can instead grossly misconstrue it and reply with a straw man?
Why respond honestly to a response when you can instead grossly misconstrue it and reply with a straw man?
I’m commenting in support of the person I’m replying to. I don’t understand what you mean by this.
Welp, I’m a dumbass! I apologize, I thought you were doing exactly the opposite, but I see it now.
Text is hard. Sorry.
Text is hard! I should’ve been clearer!
Russians are dying to get the old gang back together, that’s for certain.
Where can I see that polling?
Here’s a link to a comment with some polling
More recent polling shows otherwise:
So really not a lot of people, mostly Russians and countries that have strong ties to Russia.
That’s what the first source says and as someone already pointed to a more recent polling showing that it’s no longer the case for eastern European countries.
Hungary source is an old article and the same recent polling shows otherwise.
Romania source link doesn’t even work.
Eastern Germany is a pretty complex and nuanced topic, one that I won’t get into so I’ll give that one the benefit of the doubt that they actually want soviet socialism back.
Czech source link also doesn’t work.
Serbia source literally has the article saying “the Serbian citizens primarily refer to better economic situation and standard of living, but the majority of them would not go back to that period.”
And then there’s the Russian part, which is completely understandable considering the USSR was just a form of Russian imperialism.