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The original was posted on /r/thedeprogram by /u/aPrussianBot on 2025-08-05 12:36:26+00:00.
Like on top of it just being intellectually lazy and obnoxious, they're doing THEMSELVES a disservice because the USSR in all it's complexity, contradiction, highs of glorious communist achievement and lows of depressing revisionist dysfunction, the heroes and the villains, the conflict between genuinely wanting to create utopia and struggling hopelessly against the conditions of the most bloodstained and wartorn century in human history, it's just so unbelievably striking when you allow yourself to see it all by giving them the benefit of the doubt. It's just so boring if you think they were a bunch of megalomaniacal 'totalitarian' grifters, on top of being laughably wrong. Not to lay it on too thick, but examining the history of the USSR, especially as a communist in autopsy, teaches you so, so much about... us, and this journey we're on
Just something about the first people in human history to self-consciously take and use the power of our Masters, our rulers, to try so hard to drag us to our promised land- driven by this intense and genuine fervor for a better world, a kind, equal, free, and fair world, being forced into the dirtiest, bloodiest, most horrifying conditions imaginable, including the largest and most deadly battle in all of human history. It's darkly romantic, tragic, inspiring, and depressing. It's the best of us struggling against our vicious world, for the first time stretching our arms out to escape it fully self-conscious of what it is and what lies beyond. And the worst of us as we're mercilessly dragged back down by the brutal reality of our conditions that we sometimes just can't escape or transcend no matter how much we yearn to.
It really stirs the soul, and in a lot of ways I think liberals being unable to recognize all this speaks to how spiritually inert liberalism and the culture it's reproducing is.
