Yes, famously the idea of "say one thing, mean another," didn't exist before 1917.
brain_in_a_box
The famine that affected the whole USSR, of which Ukraine was a part? What does that have to do with Russia, let along the "Tzar"?
Literal fascist
Their argument was that so called Western socialists are mostly just Western chauvinists who make their determination on what movements are "real socialists" based on how closely they align, racially and culturally, to the West.
There, that's their argument.
Wannabe McCarthy here copy pasting this comment all of the place; "known tankie", are you fucking serious with this?
If you're only going to read the headline, go back to reddit.
This kind of selective application of values - where warcrimes are ignored or acknowledged purely based on geopolitical alignment - is more loathsome to me than no application of values at all: cynical, bad faith, weaponised hypocrisy.
the king told the committee that he didn't want dictatorships
Aka not colonialism.