After seeing a megathread praising Mao Zedong, an actual mass killer, and a post about a guy saying “99% of westerners are 100000000000% sure they know what happened in ‘Tiny Man Square’ […] the reasons for this are complex and involve propaganda […],” I am genuinely curious what leads people to this belief system. Even if propaganda is involved when it comes to Tiananmen Square, it doesn’t change the atrocities that were/are committed everywhere else in China.

I am all for letting people believe what they want but I am lost on why one would deliberately praise any authoritarian system this hard.

Can someone please help me understand why this is such a large and prominent community? How have these ideals garnered such a following outside of China?

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who has responded! This thread has been very insightful :)

  • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    12 days ago

    And yes, it’s the communists who not only defeated the German fascists, but also the Italian ones as well.

    And Japanese fascists. which is who was “mass murdered” by the Chinese after being colonized and brutally ruled by the Japanese for 14 years. The Chinese lost over 22 million people fighting fascism