No mention of why Romania was in such a bad state. Turns out it was the same playbook as today with the Global South. Romania gets IMF loans mid 70s. And just like John Perkins discusses in his book 'confessions of an Economic Hitman', the IMF made the terms of the loan contingent on austerity. Then due to global macroeconomic conditions and interest rate hikes, Romania can't repay the debts and starts to implode. This of course by design as per IMF/World bank strategy.
The people rise up against AUSTERITY but libs scream about 'communist dictatorship'.
Zero historical context. Just 'Communism bad, mmmkay?'. Like the Ukraine proxy war, nothing happened before Russia invaded. No it was 'totally unprovoked'.
Here's the background of this lemmy.world propaganda:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_and_the_International_Monetary_Fund
Could be. Could be just a conservative/fascist cold war history goon, lots of people who casually enjoy history quickly gobble anticommunism. But whether its a civilian or a spook, functionally they do they same thing.
The person that posted this image also pasted 4 other images with similar titles. I replied with the link to the IMF loan, explained 'confessions of an economic hit man' and he immediately dismissed me as a tankie. This is my shocked face.
Here's another thing to be shocked about: they made a post about this in the fedi equivalent of tankiejerk.
It got worse after you saw it last:
— @goat@sh.itjust.works
Gentle remind that the US was perfectly content with Nazi Germany for most of the war.
And hired nazis after the war. In fact many prominent business leaders were arguing the US was entering WW2 on the wrong side.