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yes, exactly. everyone is very quick to point out how evil the united states is. but there is no public reaction about the soviet union in which millions upon millions of people were deliberately murdered. more people than the nazis and the united states. i point out the absence of objectivity when i see it because i am a good citizen.

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What if you separated the doings of the nations' leaders and military from what this is, a discussion about old school technology in the form of watches? One presumes the watchmakers didn't run gulags in their spare times.

Do you show up in discussions of 60's muscle cars and moan about the USA dropping nuclear bombs in Japan?

I was wondering what sort of "good citizen" has this username and spouts this... stuff, so I checked your profile. You wrote previously:

> my peers seemed super petty and intellectually average. easily pulled into dogmatic, fuzzy ideas.

Your peers, you say...

At least learn to capitalize your sentences!

>but there is no public reaction about the soviet union

There's literally non-stop public reaction against the Soviet Union, a country that stopped existing 30 years ago, especially in threads like this that are completely non-political. Case in point, you, congrats on being the first person who thinks watch connoisseurs are committing wronkthink by talking about watches.

You need a chrome/FF extension that adds to every comment an extra sentence like:

- "I disagree with Stalinist grain policies"

- "The Soviet Union murdered millions"

- "I think the Ukrainians are right to complain about the USSR"

- "They were too many gulags if you think about it"

- "But of the course, the Soviet Union was bad"

- "Stalin? No, I disavow him"

Then you don't have to derail a thread about watches to defend the Nazis and United States from the ghost of Stalin.

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