• megopie@beehaw.org
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    4 days ago

    Imagine, that you were the intelligence service of a small country dependent on the support and compliance of larger countries to enable you to enact a genocide you had been planning for decades. What would be the best way to achieve that? Extensive Kompromat on influential individuals in positions of influence in media, politics and business might be one way to do that.

    This isn’t a new thing ether, the lavender scare was in large part J “Edna” Hoover forcing queer individuals into a strict network of mutual blackmail. One of my grandparents told me several stories regarding the subject, don’t ask what they were doing in Budapest in 1956.

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      3 days ago

      what were they doing in budapest in 1956, you are talking about the attempt at a color revolution?

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        3 days ago

        Lmao, color revolution theory is actually BS.

        But let’s just say that foreign interests had a vested interest in the Soviets being as brutal as possible in putting down the Hungarian revolution.

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          i dunno, i went through a couple of attempts. shit, i’m probably going through one right now.

          it sounds like BS only if you are western and detached from it, we know exactly what the us is capable of. they even admitted as much before.

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      Budapest during the cold war? It’s like 50% odds they were a spy. I’m exaggerating… But not much.