http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=WXE-m_yPH_s&feature=endscreen
 
O field, my field.

Yea!Comrade Applejack!

@Background Pony  
Hitler killed more people than Stalin.  
At that time, there was still in Soviet Union market for grain.  
The famine was caused by weather, and farmers holding grain to raise price.  
Stalin’s forced collectivisation was introduced for to end the famine.
 
I am not a stalinist because Stalin killed thousands of revolutionaries.  
But he did not cause every death during his time in power.

Okey doke. :D

@Lippe-Detmold  
Stalin killed more people than Hitler.  
Man, fuck Stalin. Lenin’s where it’s at.  
(on an unrelated note, AJ’s one of the most capitalist ponies)

My Little Soviet: Comrades are Magic
 
grandiose soviet propaganda music
 
behold the ideal hard working member of the ponytariate, self sufficient and happy to share her wealth of food with her beloved comrades, all the while helping to raise the new and care for the old, acting as mother, the way her motherland cares for her.
 
/manly communist tears

Long Live the Motherland!

Simple when it comes to communism in theory versus when it has been used in practice by dictatorship. We view classism as a lesser prejudice than racism (communists, socialists, and others were involved in the civil rights movement and liberating African nations from imperial colonial masters), sexism, or homophobia (of which Joseph Stalin and Joseph McCarthy blamed the other nation/system for the existence or tolerance of homosexuals, so we both had douchebags).
 
So get over yourselves.

@Lippe-Detmold  
Also, as far as the symbols go:
 
Hammer for industrial workers.  
Sickle for agricultural workers and farmers.
 
If one is going yo argue strictly symbols, it’s like the debate Benjamin Franklin had about what the national bird of the U.S. should be, even if he wasn’t serious, it was to draw a comparison between the “noble turkey” and the “bird of prey eagle” (which was and is a symbol of quite a few countries, such as Germany).

@Lippe-Detmold
 
Words cannot express how much I agree with you.

@Lippe-Detmold  
Some of the double standard comes out of World War II, when the USSR was one of the Allies fighting against Germany, granted it was late like the U.S. Also, it has to do with … idealism in who the targets were in theory, despite what might have been in practice. Communism was more concerned with class whereas Nazism (because let’s face it, there haven’t been hardly any Francisco Franco, Benito Mussolini, or right-wing South American dictators in pictures in comparison to Nazis) was more concerned with race/ethic group/ethnoreligious group (and the reason why I said practice a while ago, is because, under Stalin the most at the least, the USSR was anti-semitic as well).

If she was a fascist in this picture it would immediately get downvoted to hell, even though soviet communism (implied by the symbols) was at least equally violent and destructive as nazism. Talk about double standard!

 
True, this one is based on an old Maoist poster in China, but still.

@thps48  
Russia, the largest former Soviet state, essentially went back to its former flag from the Imperial days: horizontal tricolour of white, blue, and red.

@thps48  
Seriously?
 
The (Berlin) Wall mainly affected Germany at first, leading to full reunification in 1990. This particular flag here is not the official flag of the USSR anyway, though it did have that hammer, sickle, and hollow star on it.
 
At any rate, though some nations broke away prior to this event, the USSR officially dissolved at the very tail-end of 1991, with 15 “former Soviet states”: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Looking at this in full view of public makes me wonder if some ponies think of this association… Sidenote: Is this Russia’s current flag or did they change it after The Wall crumbled? <_<