• shikitohno@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Betrayal is a bit of a hefty charge to be leveled against anyone by the guy who turned government informant and denounced writers he thought were too communist to the British government.

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      7 months ago

      Betrayal is about the only word to accurately describe the historically documented events when Soviet-backed communist troops began firing on non-Soviet-backed communist and anarchist troops in the middle of the civil war.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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        7 months ago

        Or the summary executions of individuals that criticized the growing Stalinist influence. Hemingway rather famously had falling outs with several of his friends for ignoring other friends being executed in the street.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah, but that’s critical thinking and using words as they’re intended to be used…

        This is social media and the topic is political ideology so no one has any time for such nonsense as that

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      The Soviets did shoot him before he did any of that. Like idk what your definition of betrayal is, but mine includes shooting your comrades