The DM was a DM asking us to change our no tankies policy and remove the fuck tankies banner as it was apparently upsetting hexbear users. Apparently tankies view the word tankie as a form of slur. The admin wants us to ally as a form of “left solidarity”

  • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    Liquidate doesn’t refer to murder though. Liquidation means to dissolve or disband political organisations, which is what I was referring to.

    If you think that I’m euphemising the fact that the Red Army destroyed the Black Army then your implicit bias is showing because they were at war with one another. Murder isn’t something that is applied to enemy armies which have engaged one another in war. I’m not complaining about the Black Army killing Bolsheviks in war. That’s what happens.

    I’m talking about literal extrajudicial murders of Bolsheviks by the Makhnovist secret police.

    Edit:

    I forgot that I’m talking to an anarchist.

    Sources: Nestor Makhno in the Russian Civil War by Malet, pp. 51-52, 103-104, and 129. Before you say it, here’s Malet in his own words in the preface:

    It will be clear from the book that the author has some sympathy with Makhno and his ideals, but he trusts that this has not led to gross distortion or untruth.

    Kontrrazvedka: The Story of the Makhnovist Intelligence Service by Azarov, pp 32-33 but there’s plenty more in there too. Before you say it about him, too:

    Azarov was active in the Social-Democratic Party of Ukraine but left that party when its anarchist fractions were expelled. In 1999 Azarov was one of the founders of the political party “Union of Anarchists of Ukraine” (SAU). At the founding congress Azarov was elected chair of the the chief executive organ of the SAU.