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We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they'd like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

Why are you trying to make them defend Khrushchev? It's hard to find someone who agrees with anything else the guy did, but sending in the tanks to put down an uprising co-opted by nazis is pretty unambiguously good, though history tells us he didn't do enough to purge the Hungarian right.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

Khrushchev did literally nothing wrong. Khrushchev spent his entire time in office being the only person trying to build international communism, and basically every single good thing that happened from the 50s and until he was ousted can be traced to him.

I am the corn stan. And unless you hate Cuba and you think apartheid and colonialism was the tits you better start putting some respect on his name.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wasn't the way he implemented centralized light industry pretty bad? Like didn't it destroy a lot of already existing organizations?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I genuinely have no idea.

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