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Gosh I love the stoics.


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School dances were fun.

The most memorable was one we did every year called Morp..which was Prom spelled backwards. All the couples wore opposite gender drag. I was on yearbook that year and took a variety of images that were included that year’s edition.

Absolutely no one cared that boys were in dresses and the girls were wearing suits. All in good fun.


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Yeah, dressing in drag wasn’t a big deal bag then because it was so silly. It’s part of the reason why I had to shut down my Facebook years ago. The pics would be weaponized now as me transitioning or something…and I was kinda of a pretty boy back then tbh. Wasn’t a horrible looking woman other than the beefy shoulders and arms.
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I’d kid around here, and if you knew me irl, you wouldn’t care and would just think I’m a being a silly goose. But I won’t.
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There’s an argument that WWI may have been over sooner if America had provided its soldiers with condoms. At any given time 15% of all soldiers were out with venereal diseases..sidelined.


Budweiser, Jack Daniels,[ American Tobacco..

Watching a multi hour long documentary about beer, whisky, and cigarettes and feel no pull nor desire for any of it, just interest in the history.

I suppose that means I’ve beaten it.

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Marlboro, Playboy, Durex, Las Vegas, Powerball..

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Thread: ChatGPT has reached over 100 million users - fastest growing consumer app ever. Is this the beginning of the end of Human individual thought?

Now combined with Siri, Alexa, and Google's AI programs - a majority of humanity may longer have to think. Will a majority of humans be rendered useless?


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Thread: Jack Daniels has gone woke now!

Thread: Brooke Shields posed BARE for PLAYBOY at 10! Her mom allowed! Most SEXUALLY exploited child star

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Thread: Why did TPTB want men to be circumcised? (Page 5)

Soldiers. A circumcised penis is less likely to harbor disease.
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Fun fact..

There’s an argument that WWI may have been over sooner if America had provided its soldiers with condoms. At any given time 15% of all soldiers were out with venereal diseases..sidelined.
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Circumcised men compared with uncircumcised men have also been shown in clinical trials to be less likely to acquire new infections with syphilis (by 42%), genital ulcer disease (by 48%), genital herpes (by 28% to 45%), and high-risk strains of human papillomavirus associated with cancer (by 24% to 47% percent). Adding condoms on top of circumcision, would make the second most perfect human soldier.
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Makes sense. It’s like a skin helmet.
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Thread: ‘Blood Money’: The Secret Chinese Military ‘Disintegration Warfare’ Manifesto to Rip America Apart Using Drugs, Social Chaos,

Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans, a new book by Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer, reveals how the Chinese government is using drugs, social chaos, and other means to tear apart the social fabric of the United States and wage war against America without firing a shot, as part of a “Disintegration Warfare” strategy outlined in an obscure manifesto.

The book exposes this strategy, which the Chinese military outlined in a 2010 book entitled Disintegration Warfare. The strategy is based on ancient Chinese strategist and general Sun Tzu’s Art of War, a guide on how to subdue an enemy without fighting. Schweizer writes:

In keeping with this approach, China’s official military strategy focuses on—in the Chinese leaders’ words—going after the United States’ “‘soft underbelly’ in terms of politics, economics, and the spirit and psychology of [its] people.” Chinese leaders have coined new terms such as “unrestricted warfare” and “disintegration warfare” to describe Sun Tzu’s old strategy of winning without fighting.

Schweizer, who is also president of the Government Accountability Institute, notes the lethal consequences the strategy has already taken in the U.S. in the form of hundreds of thousands of American deaths in the past five years alone — a greater amount than casualties from any war in the past 50 years and “mounting daily.”

...


But drug warfare is only one part of the strategy to take down America.

Another part is fueling social chaos using radical proxy groups within the U.S., Schweizer writes.

A 2020 Chinese military report obtained by the author reveals that Beijing sees the U.S.’s mounting social chaos and division as a national weakness, noting that “the intensifying political rivalry is depleting the energy of the U.S.”

Schweizer reveals that in order to stoke further social and division in America, China utilizes, supports, and funds multiple far-left groups within the U.S. who stoke violence and racial tensions.

These groups, which Schweizer delves into in the book, meet with Chinese Communist Party officials, are tracked by Chinese Communist intelligence, promoted by Chinese state media, and receive funding from China.

Schweizer notes that as drug warfare, social chaos, and other weapons are being deployed against the U.S., leaders in Washington are largely standing by.


Perhaps even more shocking than Beijing’s aggressions toward us has been the willful blindness of our political leaders. Rather than confronting the reality that Beijing is wreaking havoc on our soil, they focus on domestic policy minutiae,” he writes.

Schweizer highlights two big reasons: corruption and convenience.

“Some of our leaders, who are named in the chapters that follow, have financial ties to the Chinese state and don’t want to see the flow of money disrupted,” he states.



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Thread: Are our Governments and Drug Cartels the same entities?

At the end of the first Opium War, the only 2 things the Chinese wouldn't bend on was legalization of opium, and Christian missionaries. Hard no on both.

I find that quite telling of the recent 'spiritual opium' statement regarding the banning of video games for minors.


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Disappointed in the treaty, the Daoguang Emperor replaced Qishan with three new commanders. One of them wanted to buy time and modernize the army, but the Emperor insisted the British be repelled immediately. They assaulted Canton from across the river, firing cannons and sailing fire ships at the British fleet. Their efforts fell far short, and soon the British controlled the river again.

The Chinese were forced to pay them an indemnity to leave Canton, but in their wake riots and looting plagued the city anyway. Elliot still led the British forces, but upon returning to Hong Kong, he learned that he was now being replaced. His replacements had no interest in the compromises he'd tried to establish. They pushed immediately towards Beijing.

In each new fort they captured, they found evidence that the Chinese resistance had ironically been weakened by crippling opium addiction. As the Chinese attacks grew more desperate, British retaliation grew more brutal. Finally, they stood ready to seize Nanking. With it would come control of the Yangtze River on which all of China depended, so the Emperor was forced to negotiate. They had no bargaining power, and gave the British nearly everything they wanted: a huge indemnity, new trade ports, no more Hong monopoly, generous tariffs, consulates, and sovereignty over Hong Kong.

The only two matters they refused were Christian missionaries and legalizing opium, but the latter would only lead to the Second Opium War with similar results.

These "unequal treaties" would go down in Chinese history as the beginning of what the Communist government later called "The Century of Humiliation." The spectre of this shame and forced subservience to European interests continues to shape politics today, as this history is often invoked or used as a rallying cry during dealings with the West.

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I would hate that so much. Candy crush? I’ve never played that game. Not my kind of gaming..


This is giving me the weirdest sense of Deja vu. Not like I’ve lived it before but that we’ve done it before in the distant past.

Too much sci-fi?



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chuckle

Well, sticking with the theme and random bs I came across today







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And of course it's fricken called CAT (er, thatll make sense with the third clip, I tend to put em at 2x speed)

Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) software is an interactive platform that facilitates language translation using a combination of automated software and human translators to produce high-quality translations. These tools help reduce a translator's workload, improve translation speed, quality, and consistency.


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Just wanted to make a note.

I randomly check the AC countries and from where they are coming from.

For most of the last 2-3weeks, every time I check for China, I have notice only 0-6 ACs which was lower than last years average of 32.


Today that number is 71..a huge increase. Do with that information, what you will..

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Thread: ‘Blood Money’: The Secret Chinese Military ‘Disintegration Warfare’ Manifesto to Rip America Apart Using Drugs, Social Chaos,

Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans, a new book by Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer, reveals how the Chinese government is using drugs, social chaos, and other means to tear apart the social fabric of the United States and wage war against America without firing a shot, as part of a “Disintegration Warfare” strategy outlined in an obscure manifesto.

The book exposes this strategy, which the Chinese military outlined in a 2010 book entitled Disintegration Warfare. The strategy is based on ancient Chinese strategist and general Sun Tzu’s Art of War, a guide on how to subdue an enemy without fighting. Schweizer writes:

In keeping with this approach, China’s official military strategy focuses on—in the Chinese leaders’ words—going after the United States’ “‘soft underbelly’ in terms of politics, economics, and the spirit and psychology of [its] people.” Chinese leaders have coined new terms such as “unrestricted warfare” and “disintegration warfare” to describe Sun Tzu’s old strategy of winning without fighting.

Schweizer, who is also president of the Government Accountability Institute, notes the lethal consequences the strategy has already taken in the U.S. in the form of hundreds of thousands of American deaths in the past five years alone — a greater amount than casualties from any war in the past 50 years and “mounting daily.”

...


But drug warfare is only one part of the strategy to take down America.

Another part is fueling social chaos using radical proxy groups within the U.S., Schweizer writes.

A 2020 Chinese military report obtained by the author reveals that Beijing sees the U.S.’s mounting social chaos and division as a national weakness, noting that “the intensifying political rivalry is depleting the energy of the U.S.”

Schweizer reveals that in order to stoke further social and division in America, China utilizes, supports, and funds multiple far-left groups within the U.S. who stoke violence and racial tensions.

These groups, which Schweizer delves into in the book, meet with Chinese Communist Party officials, are tracked by Chinese Communist intelligence, promoted by Chinese state media, and receive funding from China.

Schweizer notes that as drug warfare, social chaos, and other weapons are being deployed against the U.S., leaders in Washington are largely standing by.


Perhaps even more shocking than Beijing’s aggressions toward us has been the willful blindness of our political leaders. Rather than confronting the reality that Beijing is wreaking havoc on our soil, they focus on domestic policy minutiae,” he writes.

Schweizer highlights two big reasons: corruption and convenience.

“Some of our leaders, who are named in the chapters that follow, have financial ties to the Chinese state and don’t want to see the flow of money disrupted,” he states.



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Thread: Are our Governments and Drug Cartels the same entities?

At the end of the first Opium War, the only 2 things the Chinese wouldn't bend on was legalization of opium, and Christian missionaries. Hard no on both.

I find that quite telling of the recent 'spiritual opium' statement regarding the banning of video games for minors.


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Disappointed in the treaty, the Daoguang Emperor replaced Qishan with three new commanders. One of them wanted to buy time and modernize the army, but the Emperor insisted the British be repelled immediately. They assaulted Canton from across the river, firing cannons and sailing fire ships at the British fleet. Their efforts fell far short, and soon the British controlled the river again.

The Chinese were forced to pay them an indemnity to leave Canton, but in their wake riots and looting plagued the city anyway. Elliot still led the British forces, but upon returning to Hong Kong, he learned that he was now being replaced. His replacements had no interest in the compromises he'd tried to establish. They pushed immediately towards Beijing.

In each new fort they captured, they found evidence that the Chinese resistance had ironically been weakened by crippling opium addiction. As the Chinese attacks grew more desperate, British retaliation grew more brutal. Finally, they stood ready to seize Nanking. With it would come control of the Yangtze River on which all of China depended, so the Emperor was forced to negotiate. They had no bargaining power, and gave the British nearly everything they wanted: a huge indemnity, new trade ports, no more Hong monopoly, generous tariffs, consulates, and sovereignty over Hong Kong.

The only two matters they refused were Christian missionaries and legalizing opium, but the latter would only lead to the Second Opium War with similar results.

These "unequal treaties" would go down in Chinese history as the beginning of what the Communist government later called "The Century of Humiliation." The spectre of this shame and forced subservience to European interests continues to shape politics today, as this history is often invoked or used as a rallying cry during dealings with the West.

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Thread: California seized enough fentanyl in 2023 to kill the entire world population 'nearly twice over'

California National Guard seized 62k pounds, up 1,000 percent from 2021

Opioid-related overdose deaths in California spiked 121 percent over three years


The California National Guard intercepted thousands of pounds of deadly fentanyl at ports of entry, enough to kill the entire global population ‘nearly twice over,’ according to the governor.

The National Guard, or CalGuard, worked with other government drug interdiction offices to seize a record 62,000 pounds of fentanyl, a 1,066 percent increase since the 5,300 pounds seized in 2021,

It is unclear whether more was seized this past year due to an increased number of officers or whether drug traffickers are massively scaling up production.




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that is just one state and only what they found !!!!
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Thread: I am a Chinese Glper ask me a question (Page 6)

Great thread OP.

I have a few additional questions.


What are your thoughts on the looming demographic crisis of 33,000,000 extra males in China, due to the one child policy?

Do Chinese males under 40 have trouble finding a girlfriend/lover/wife?

Do you have or have had a girlfriend/boyfriend/partner and what is your long term outlook on that potential?


What is China's policy on pornography and the sex industry?

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Government had well informed about this problem, it increase the instability. I think the final solution is expand outwardly, one road one belt is part of the plan, in an extremely case they can also send them to rural area force them to work.

I have a girlfriend, we have been together for 10 more years, luckily we share the same view on many issues.


China forbidden all kind of the porn sites, but in the other hand there are always a huge market for pornography and prostitution... They are all operates underground. Some of them are running by the police and other government agencies
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Are you saying they really aren't sure what they are going to do yet? I saw homosexuality was recently criminalized..do you think it is to combat this issue of too many males?

What is the likelihood of the 'extra males'(sorry to put it that way) being bred to be cannon fodder for further global conquest?


Glad to hear you have a life partner who shares your views. Do you have or plan on having children and what is the incentive to have children in China? You did mention you have hope for the Chinese people.

Do you fear that if you have a daughter she could be at the mercy of too many males or will it have balanced by then?

It is problem for other Chinese families with daughters between say 13 and 29?
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I don't think they have a clear plan other than send them to rural area, btw they already downgraded many second/third tier colleges, so when those students graduated, they can't fine a job in the city. Once they go to rural area, government can easily control them.

Other solutions include import brides from Myanmar, Vietnam and other southeast countries.

We are not planning to have children in a short term, it's really a bad era for rising kids in China, the brainwashed campaign in school is incredible. For other families i think they don't care, they didn't see the big picture yet. Although they still prefer males over female.
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Thread: Major Chinese Bank Halts All Settlements With Russia – Vedomosti

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Well they have surplus sand cities so bunch of bikes is a nothin burga.
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Was kinda my point.

Lying about demand leads to over supply. Population is collapsing.
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Russia has become China's largest trading partner. You really think that is going to change or stop?

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You and Putler are in for an surprise this year.

China has the green light for taking back Russia occupied Eastern-Russia, always was China anyway and the Russians tricked their way to a pacific harbor at the end of WW-II.

China:
30 million single young men with no prospects for the future, the biggest industrial machine on this planet and an economy in DEEP trouble, the biggest debt bubble on the planet ever and an one-man rulership.

Guess what they will do...

Btw. Taiwan *lol*
Great ruse played on Russia.
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I’ve been saying this for years.

Putin is purposely culling multigenerational Fetal alcohol syndrome males, to make room for Chinese have access to the women.

It was always about the females the way I see it..

30 million screaming chinamen won’t go softly into that goodnight.


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Russian Federation - Male to female ratio of the total population

86.39
(males per 100 females)
in 2020



Population 143,715,712 persons

Male population 66,749,216 persons
Female population 76,966,496 persons

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10 million ‘extra’ females.


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Why much of Eastern Russia is so sparsely populated?
Reasons Behind Russia's Large Geography and Low Population
Russia's immense size presents difficulties for resource distribution, infrastructure development, and transportation. Due to their severe weather and isolated locations, several parts of the country—especially in Siberia and the Far East—remain sparsely inhabited

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Just wanted to make a note.

I randomly check the AC countries and from where they are coming from.

For most of the last 2-3weeks, every time I check for China, I have notice only 0-6 ACs which was lower than last years average of 32.


Today that number is 71..a huge increase. Do with that information, what you will..

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Isn't it risky for you? Why do you say they would never visit GLP?

How did you find GLP?
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They have a cyber army to constantly watching popular social platform, mainly target at Chinese dissidents. They won't never waste their time and money on GLP, as you can see almost no Chinese here,plus most of their pawn are under educated, they can't barely read any English. So iam relatively safe here.

Initially I came here for UFO and conspiracy theories. I just Google and GLP shows up.
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Thread: So ... (Page 2)

After all of any of this ...

What have any of you learned?
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Made this a few days back when I had only one black banana.

Tasty.


ONE BANANA BANANA BREAD
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Thread: I am a Chinese Glper ask me a question (Page 13)

OP, you already mentioned that Chinese people have adapted to a corrupt system, this last post is yet another proof of that.

Do you think that the so called “chudibo” spirit of how things are done in China is part of that systematic corruption? (chudibo is often used in media as a Chinese term to convey that something is good enough and no further effort is justified).
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To be honest I never heard of this term.

But I can explain to you why everyone is corrupted in China. For example you need to build a cargo ship. You got the deal by offering customer an incredible low price.

But you still need to make profit out of this project. The workers you hired is already cheapest in the world, and you used the lowest quality materials, you can only make little out of it, you then realized the whole project just a wasted of time.

Wait a minute, what if you hired unqualified workers to do this job? What if you use fake materials ? Everyone from managers to supervisor has the same kind of mindset.

You know the ship is going to sink when it touches water, but what if you give some kickback to your customers ? What if you don't need to build this ship at all?

In that case everybody makes the money and forget about the ship, taxpayers will pay for everything, this is how we operate in China.

Even the general managers responsible for aircraft carrier got arrested. Because everything is state owned business.

Everyone needs to make money, that why most products that made in China is crap.
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Thanks for that honest assesment!.

The correct term as per this article is Cha bu duo.


Anyway it makes me remember a joke about the call for proposals for going to the moon. The Chinese Bid was 10 billion USD, the German bid was 50 Billion USD and the Mexican Bid was 100 billion. The Bid went to the Mexican, who bribed the bidding officials offering half the money after subcontracting the Chinese bidders.

I wish I could say it's not the way things work in this effin corrupt world.
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Now I understand

Cha bu duo, why should you care when you horribly underpaid ?

Nowaday Chinese youth also has this 'laying down' subculture, that means no matter how hard you work, you can't never change a damn thing, why don't you laid youself down and stop cooperating. It's an zen like attitude to say no to the totalitarianism system

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Thread: On this day in 1953, the communist butcher Stalin died. He's reported as having killed 6–9 million Soviets during his sadistic repressions. (Page 5)

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Joseph Stalin

Stalin was dictator of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1953.

When he was young he was a bank robber, an agitator, and an assassin. After a long road to get into power, he became a paranoid, ruthless, unforgiving, brutal and vengeful dictator. He created a 30 year reign of violence, terror, destruction and murdering. Anyone who spied on him, displeased him, or voted against him was doomed to die. His first plan was to create the Soviet Union into an industrial superpower country. To do that would cause the deaths of countless numbers of people.

People were sent to slave labors and were forced to work to death. Huge industrial schemes became a living hell for hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions. He signed the death warrants for tens of thousands of people.


Stalin only liked people who fourfold his orders, but if you were a popular figure, an intelligent, and independent person, Stalin would order you to be tortured, imprisoned for many years or life, or shot you. He would kill family members of people who loved him and family members of people who horned him as a god.

Stalin once kissed a small girl in public, she had become famous and thought Stalin cared for her and her family, but he later killed her parents. People were sometimes killed with an ice pick.

About 10 million people died in a famine. Stalin once said “One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is simply a statistic.” He killed the wives of some of his friends. He exiled his daughter’s boyfriend, Aleksie Kapler. Stalin’s wife was driven into despair by his treatment of her, which caused her to kill herself.


His son died in a Nazi concentration camp after Stalin refused to trade for his life. He would even kill people who were defending their country against the Nazis. People were in prison were force to fight in World War II, but if they returned they would be sent back to prison.

Hundreds of thousands of people from other countries were tortured, raped, or killed. People were often killed by mustard gas bombs. More than 1.5 million German women were raped from the Soviet Union. Recent evidence shows that Stalin had his own Final Solution in which hundreds of thousands of Jews were exiled or killed.


Stalin wanted the Soviet Union to become a country strong enough to rival the U.S., but if they were stronger than the U.S., he would want the 2 countries to fight a war. Stalin killed 20 to 60 million people.

He died in 1953 from a stroke.

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Many of those were Ukraine farmers.....
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German Kulaks starved by the communists numbered 13 million during Holodomor.

And Yagoda alone was responsible for over 10 million dead.
Stalin is responsible for 75 million murders of White Christians in Russia.

Not sure where OP is getter my his numbers but they are way off.
Never heard of the numbers being that low, 6 to 9 million?
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The Cossack way of life persisted via both direct descendants and acquired ideals in other nations into the twentieth century, though the sweeping societal changes of the Russian Revolution disrupted Cossack society as much as any other part of Russia; many Cossacks migrated to other parts of Europe following the establishment of the Soviet Union, while others remained and assimilated into the Communist state.

Cohesive Cossack-based units were organized and many fought for both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.

After World War II, the Soviet Union disbanded the Cossack units in the Soviet Army, and many of the Cossack traditions were suppressed during the years of rule under Joseph Stalin and his successors

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Thread: On this day in 1953, the communist butcher Stalin died. He's reported as having killed 6–9 million Soviets during his sadistic repressions.

Anti-intellectualism

Soviet Union

In the first decade after the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks suspected the Tsarist intelligentsia as having the potential to betray the proletariat. Thus, the initial Soviet government consisted of men and women without much formal education. Moreover, the deposed propertied classes were termed Lishentsy ("the disenfranchised"), whose children were excluded from education. Eventually, some 200 Tsarist intellectuals such as writers, philosophers, scientists and engineers were deported to Germany on philosophers' ships in 1922 while others were deported to Latvia and Turkey in 1923.

During the revolutionary period, the pragmatic Bolsheviks employed "bourgeois experts" to manage the economy, industry, and agriculture and so learn from them. After the Russian Civil War (1917–1922), to achieve socialism the Soviet Union (1922–91) emphasized literacy and education in service to modernizing the country via an educated working class intelligentsia rather than an Ivory Tower intelligentsia.

During the 1930s and 1950s, Joseph Stalin replaced Vladimir Lenin's intelligentsia with an intelligentsia that was loyal to him and believed in a specifically Soviet world view, thereby producing the pseudoscientific theories of Lysenkoism and Japhetic theory.

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Philosophers' ships

The philosophers' ships or philosopher's steamers were steamships that transported intellectuals expelled from Soviet Russia in 1922.

The main load was handled by two German ships, the Oberburgermeister Haken and the Preussen, which transported more than 200 expelled Russian intellectuals and their families in September and November 1922 from Petrograd (modern-day Saint Petersburg) to the seaport of Stettin in Germany (modern-day Szczecin in Poland).

Three detention lists included 228 people, 32 of them students

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Lysenkoism

Lysenkoism was a political campaign led by Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko against genetics and science-based agriculture in the mid-20th century, rejecting natural selection in favour of a form of Lamarckism, as well as expanding upon the techniques of vernalization and grafting.


More than 3,000 mainstream biologists were dismissed or imprisoned, and numerous scientists were executed in the Soviet campaign to suppress scientific opponents. The president of the Soviet Agriculture Academy, Nikolai Vavilov, who had been Lysenko's mentor, but later denounced him, was sent to prison and died there, while Soviet genetics research was effectively destroyed.

Research and teaching in the fields of neurophysiology, cell biology, and many other biological disciplines were harmed or banned

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People's Republic of China

The Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) was a politically violent decade which saw wide-ranging social engineering throughout the People's Republic of China by its leader Chairman Mao Zedong.

After several national policy crises during which he was motivated by his desire to regain public prestige and control of the Chinese government, Mao announced on 16 May 1966 that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chinese society were permeated with liberal bourgeois elements who meant to restore capitalism to China and he also announced that people could only be removed after a post–revolutionary class struggle was waged against them. To that effect, China's youth nationally organized themselves into Red Guards and hunted the "liberal bourgeois" elements who were supposedly subverting the CCP and Chinese society. The Red Guards acted nationally, purging the country, the military, urban workers and the leaders of the CCP.

The Red Guards were particularly aggressive when they attacked their teachers and professors, causing most schools and universities to be shut down once the Cultural Revolution began. Three years later in 1969, Mao declared that the Cultural Revolution was ended, yet the political intrigues continued until 1976, concluding with the arrest of the Gang of Four, the de facto end of the Cultural Revolution.

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