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      Oh yeah, I forgot calling oneself a socialist lifts any questions from the western leftists. You can be a corrupt nationalist government, have mafia kill jurnos, all is good.

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        Can’t be bothered to look for a similar research for SMER, but when the party members of Polish SLD (Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej - same type of post-communist party) were studied they tended to be economically more liberal and socially more conservative then the local neo-cons, and that’s quite an achievement, as these are basically air-dropped chicago-school of economy US made products.
        Left wing ideologies have been destroyed in CEE by the soviet fallout. What’s left* are parties cashing in on the nostalgia (/conservatism) and soft authoritarianism with a hint of social policies. By this account Polish PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość) party is also nearly leftist - they had some populist social programs. None of these actually affect the situation of the neglected parts of society in the long term, but the cash giveaways secure the vote, and apparently support from some…

        *Of course outside of mainstream there’s tiny honest left, socialist or even communist groups, but that’s nothing to do with what passes as the mainstream “left”, most of which is to the right of western centrists.

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            You could ask literally any active polish Antifa who I am, if actually meant anything more than an pitiful attempt at an insult.

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                With what exactly? Your tanki friends getting a slap for breaking the terms they got for joining our action? I’d expect you of all people to understand following a set line and punishing dissenters.

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                    You’re siding with a regime that used neonazis to kill our comrades in front of it’s goverment buildings, forced our Russian comrades to move from blunt weapons to firearms just to survive on the streets, supports crypto-fascist regimes, and openly finances French, German, Austrian, US neonazis, but claim we side with fascist? Hilarious. Maybe it’s time you volunteer to ‘Rusich’, now officially a part of FSB?

                    Belarusian and Ukrainian refugees make up 1/4 of my city and half of the radical movement here. Like many of our comrades I’ve been traveling the region for over 20 years. Been to Moscow, been to deep Caucasian Russia, been to Ukraine a few times including the very areas that are now a battlefield and shared roof and drinks with comrades from other countries, who were now martyred there.
                    But still instead of hearing out someone who’s committed their life to struggle, you’re better educated based on something you’ve read on the internet. Nothing like a western colonial mindset over the experience of local, working people deciding to fight against oppression.