Cross-posted from "TRUE communism!" by @[email protected] in [email protected]
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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Because people need to be reminded of the lessons anarchists learned the hard way to prevent another Spain, Ukraine and even Russia.
No surprises there... anything that isn't tankie propaganda seems "weird" to tankies.
Prove it.
Really? Is that why all Spain's gold reserves (the third largest in the world at the time) ended up in Moscow?
Tankies have a weird understanding of the term "solidarity."
I'm not saying that the only reason Barcelona didn't fall to the fascists right at the start of the war was because of the anarchists... oh, wait - that's exactly what I'm saying.
I'm not saying that anarchist plans to turn Barcelona into a death trap for the fascists was quashed by the cowardly Negrin-regime (the very same Negrin that helped Stalin steal all of Spain's gold reserves)... oh, wait - that's exactly what I'm saying.
Come, tankie... let's see how well your faux-history holds up.
Oh I see, they're called 'tankies' because the USSR gave 731 tanks to the Republicans, being the only nation to provide them any material support
What would you prefer we call you? Considering that the Bolsheviks managed the greatest single gold heist of the 20th century (from a nation being invaded by fascists, of course), would you prefer we call you "Goldies?"
Me when I'm an anarchist who cares about state gold reserves.
Anyway, it was payment for the
That the USSR provided. Should they have given it for free? Should they have not given support at all? Would it have been better for the Republicans to just accept they were going to lose anyway and die with their gold? Would you prefer that gold to have been captured by the Fascists?
Besides, the actual greatest gold heist of the century was during Indian independence, when their entire gold reserves were airlifted to the UK in exchange for... nothing. Which I'm sure you knew about, having devoted a proportional amount of your time to looking into the actual crimes of capitalist nations as you have the fictional crimes of socialist ones.
I don't care much for gold... but it seems to be one of the few things you tankies actually do care about.
But hey, tankie... good news! Now at least we know that there are at least two reasons tankies would actually bother to fight fascists at all, eh?
That is all the third largest gold reserve in the world at the time paid for? Just that measly amount of "aid?"
The Soviet Union got 7,411 aircraft from the western allies during WW2 - was Tankie Nr.3 forced to ship all his gold reserves to Washington DC, perhaps?
Did I, tankie?
Seems your glorious Tankie Nr.3 brought it up quite a few years ago...
Jesus Christ you tankies are hard of hearing. Here... again.
Seems your glorious Tankie Nr.3 brought it up quite a few years ago...
Lol! Quite the duplicitous lot, aren't you?
Is there anything you and your ilk say that can be trusted in any way whatsoever?
Only because this thread is flooded with tankies that don't.
It would have been absolutely grand if the USSR actually aided Spain in it's fight against fascism. But it seems you don't actually understand the difference between aiding someone and extorting them.
We should just forget the past and "move on," eh tankie?
Juast another narrative you copypasted from the liberals and the fascists?
So you just want me to bring up the history that doesn't prove how vile your ideology is, tankie? Is that it?
Horseshit, tankie.
Revolution and Counterrevolution in Catalonia – Carlos Semprún Maura
Seems like Azaña's (alleged) "interrupted phone call" didn't bother Azana enough to declare war on the anarchists - if such an event ever ocurred at all.
Right, right... the Republic decided democratically to give all it's gold reserves to one of the most untrustworthy realpolitickers of the 20th century, eh? You tankies have a weird understanding of the term "voluntary," too.
Support it or hijack it? Can you tankies actually tell the difference?
Yeah, I absolutely think the Republic would have stood a better chance if the liberals holding hands with tankies were more interested in fighting the fascists than sabotaging the anarchists.
Disengage
I don't want to be seen as conceding the point when I'm not in the mood to argue with tankies.
Spain?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/06/george-orwell-homage-to-catalonia-account-spanish-civil-war-wrong
Was the lesson that they stop doing literally what you're doing here?
Disengage
Sure thing. I encourage others seeing this to read this article, on the guardian of all places, however.