• OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    That’s incredibly unspecific, repression is one of the main things states do and is a broad category.

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      9 months ago

      they were hunted down and framed for crimes. they were executed. they were exiled.

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        9 months ago

        I feel like they probably shouldn’t have done those things then, if they weren’t able to sustain themselves in the face of that sort of state repression like communists could.