Care to share your sources? AFAIK, independent verification of the ongoing war is extremely difficult. From Wikipedia (hope you won’t accuse Wikipedia of being Russian propaganda):

and between 400,000 and 1.5 million estimated casualties (killed and wounded) during the Russian invasion of Ukraine from 24 February 2022 to November 2025

[…]Initially, the known number of Ukrainian military casualties varied widely due to the Ukrainian Army drastically understating its casualties

[…]Ukrainian estimates of Russian military losses tended to be high, while Russian estimates of their own losses tended to be low

[…]According to a researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Sweden, regarding Russian military losses, Ukraine engaged in a misinformation campaign to boost morale and Western media were generally happy to accept its claims, while Russia was “probably” downplaying its own casualties. Ukraine also tended to be quieter about its own military fatalities.

[…] Information on military casualties is a state secret in both Russia and Ukraine, while the Ukrainian government has been especially secretive, restricting access to demographic data that could be used to estimate its losses. In addition, Western intelligence agencies have been reluctant to disclose their internal calculations of Ukrainian military casualties for fear of undermining an ally. American officials previously said that Ukraine withholds this information from even its closest allies.

The number of civilian and military deaths is impossible to determine with precision.

This is not exclusive to Ukraine of course, Russia very much lies about casualties as a form of information war, my point is that taking either side’s claims seriously is incredibly media-illiterate.

No need for the homophobia, we’re all leftists here. You can celebrate military victories of Ukraine if you so wish, I’d just recommend being careful about believing so lightly the wartime propaganda from either side.

There are only so many unskilled jobs available. What would your wonderful communism do with this?

Train people for free and invest heavily in capital growth as it always has? Studying in the USSR in University was completely free, and students often got accommodation and stipends on top of that. By the 1970s, 1 in 10 positions in the economy were vacant, which was a problem in and out of itself, but “not having enough things to do” was NEVER an issue.

Source for the body count: Ukrainian government. Ok buddy

Mate you don’t see the pills next to her? It’s clearly a depiction of someone with a sickness or a disability. Maybe she’s writing on the union newspaper, maybe she’s designing the posters for the next protest, you’re literally judging a drawing

I see they teach German history very poorly over there.

In fact, yes, the people who SAVED YOU FROM NAZISM were the Soviets, the fact that there’s this level of Russophobia and anticommunism in Germany is because it was convenient for NATO to keep your Nazi roots. The US did a commendable job during the war with Lend-Lease, but its role in the war is severely overestimated. The UK got significantly more aid through Lend-Lease than the USSR, yet who defeated the Nazis?

Also lets not put it as if the soviets were a better regiem

Universal healthcare, free education to the highest level, guaranteed housing and abolition of homelessness, guaranteed jobs and abolition of unemployment, lowest rates of inequality in the history of the region, and literally eliminating Nazism. All of those are diametrically opposed to Nazism. There’s a reason why your Nazi ancestors were hysterical about “Judeo-Bolshevism” and considered communists their greatest enemies.

Educate yourself. The fact that a German person out of anyone will be denying the Soviet victory against the Nazis is simply a form of Nazi propaganda.

Go ahead, fucking respond to the picture posted below, dumbass motherfucker

Most people in many post-soviet countries such as Romania say that life was better under socialism, and that’s despite 35 years of anticommunist propaganda based on cold war myths and anti-Russian racism.

Go ahead, tell us again how wonderfully well capitalism has worked for Ukraine

If you’re looking for strategy against Nazis, you only have to look at how they were defeated in 1941-1945: with communism.

Meanwhile, your “social” “democrats” are increasing the working week lmfao

German government on its speedrun to fascism as usual

Hey! Thanks for the reply!!

Now, though, the link won’t open. Are you able to open it?

No idea, it works for me

As for Moscow and St. Petersburg—they are magnificent cities; when I first visited St. Petersburg back in the 80s, I fell completely in love with the place. I highly recommend visiting them

I’ve been fortunate enough to visit both cities recently, I have some pictures of my last trip to Russia over in my main account somewhere in the post history :). I loved my time in Russia!

However, a new wave is currently emerging in Russia—particularly in recent times—comprising people, including the youth, who are finally beginning to see the light.

I truly hope so. We’re starting to see something similar in Spain funnily enough, with some rapidly growing communist parties such as Movimiento Socialista.

That’s an astonishing story, Comrade! This is the first I’ve heard of women’s rights being infringed upon in Russia.

Well, it’s no secret that abortion rights are being limited, such as requiring psychological visits in order to get an abortion, or that violence against women within a couple is often disregarded by police and the first offence often only lands you a relatively small fine. I’m not trying to say this is exclusive to Russia, the rise of the far-right is universal to capitalist countries in Europe and North America, but it is factual that this is happening in Russia as well.

As for LGBTQ, Russian loved ones transmit to me that in the 2000s there were more openly queer personalities in media, and even when I visited there was propaganda on the streets about traditional families, I believe the slogan was любить по-русски. Again, this is universal to all European and North American countries, not specific to Russia. My whole point is that the support to the Russian government in the Ukraine war is simply critical support for the instance and not overt support for the system as a whole as was the case of the USSR.

It all seems a bit jumbled—are you referring to the wage increases and the shortage of jobs?

Yup, that’s what I’m trying to refer to

were it not for Iran and Russia’s ability to sell more oil, the country would be running a budget deficit

Budget deficits are an interesting economic topic. If you’re interested on a discussion about budget deficits and communism, I’ve done a cursory enough research of the economic history of the USSR that I believe I can justify how budget deficit can be absolutely wonderful for the economy ;)

Yes, there is an observed outflow of migrant workers and a shortage of labor for physically demanding jobs, but I do not believe this will lead to a crisis comparable to the one in Ukraine.

My point was actually the opposite. I don’t believe Russia faces a big crisis in the immediate future, I’m asking whether in your experience salaries are actually rising and bettering the purchase power of people!

Again, thanks a lot for your responses.

Automation is unrelated to EV price?

Nah, you’re just a propagandized westerner who hasn’t done the most cursory research on the degree of automation in Chinese EV industry. Enjoy malding in your ignorance while your country’s industry crashes and burns

That would explain Chinese dominance in vehicles in general, not EVs in particular.

Also, Chinese EV manufacturing facilities are so efficient precisely because they’re so incredibly highly automated, nothing to do with worker rights regardless of your opinion of China.

Because capitalism is entirely compatible with fascism and has no problem with it

The devs of Lemmy are openly communist, and s group of people couldn’t accept that and tried to make their own version.

In the way that “xenophobia” means rather hatred than fear of outsiders, the same applies to the word “fatphobia”. It is desirable to look for better health outcomes for yourself, it is not good to judge and discriminate other people based on their weight.

Cool to see a Russian commie around, those are unfortunately hard to come by nowadays!)))

¡No pasarán!✊ )))

Unfortunately, they did pass(((. By the way, my main account is @vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net, you probably understand the reference))

Since I’m a Spaniard, I’ve come accross my fair share of Anarchists claiming that the USSR engaged in mass repressions of anarchists in Spain during our civil war and did some research. If you’re interested in the perspective of a Spaniard Marxist-Leninist, I wrote an effort post here! Any input on my writing would be welcome of course

Regarding my questions (feel free not to give an answer if it’s too private or too much):

1. What’s your opinion on the current CPRF?

2. Some Marxist-Leninists, myself mostly included, believe that the current war In Ukraine is in response to western meddling in Russia’s sphere of influence. While we don’t support the form of the current Russian government and we are disgusted by its internal repression of women’s and queer rights, its capitalist anti-welfare economic policy, or its right-wing nationalist tendencies, we believe that given the western meddling in Ukraine, the Russian government was essentially left with no choice, and expecting a Russian surrender to the US terms would simply reinforce global capitalism, which the US dominates. What’s your opinion on this?

3. I’ve seen macroeconomic reports pointing to an increase in salaries in Russia since the beginning of the conflict, mostly attributed to the reduced workforce due to both mobilization and emigration. Have you experienced this or do you have any personal input?

Fully agreed, there’s only plutocracy and no democracy under capitalism

Sad to see you don’t give an actual fuck about Ukrainians and their lives and you use them exclusively as a rhetorical tool against Russia.