Google translate says “They’re finally heating up at Jucika’s”, but I edited it to sound more natural.
(edit: additional context in this comment below - https://sopuli.xyz/comment/23669088 - the Google translation is likely more accurate)
As always, stay tuned here on !comicstrips@lemmy.world for a slow trickle out of Jucika comics, but if you want to find more, here’s a good post with a large collection that /u/JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social posted last year: https://piefed.social/post/1258520
I’m not sure Hungary has ever been communist, at least since the Roman Empire. Are you sure you’re not thinking of the USSR? That’s Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Hungary was never part of the USSR
I thought the USSR sent tanks in to put down the Hungarian workers’ rebellion against the USSR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_People's_Republic
Right, but they were part of the USSR, an authoritarian “socialist” regime. The workers tried to rebel against the USSR, and they were put down by the Red Army. The Soviets installed Kádár as ruler of the entire country. That ain’t communism. Marx said communism was stateless, classless, and moneyless.
Oh, you’re just being intentionally dense, ok. “Communist era Hungary” is a perfectly valid way to describe the period of time in which the government of Hungary professed itself to be communist, whether or not it’s “real” communism by anyone’s definition. Also, if you want to be pedantic, they were never directly part of the USSR, at most being a puppet government propped up by the Soviets.
This is true but misleading. It’s like referring to North Korea as Democratic. By uncritically repeating government propaganda, you help to spread it. You’re both legitimising the USSR, AND poisoning people against communism.
If you want to see what actual communism looks like, take a look at the history of Australia. We had communism here for 60,000 years. To equate 50s era Hungary with Indigenous Australia via communism is an insult.
If you can’t tell the difference between calling a command economy communist (when that’s what it was historically referred to as both by allies and enemies) and calling a dictatorship a democracy, I can’t help you.
North Korea is officially called the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. They call themselves democratic. The tankies on Hexbear call them democratic.
If America had never rebelled against the British empire, then in all likelihood you and I would have been inundated with decades of anti-democracy propaganda portraying authoritarian regimes like North Korea and Russia as symptoms of the evil ideology of democracy. I would be saying “Well you shouldn’t call Soviet states democratic” and you’d be saying “what’s the difference? They called themselves democratic, their enemies called them democratic, that’s democracy.”
The fact that our culture celebrates democracy and condemns communism is a pure coincidence. The dice of history just turned out that way. You shouldn’t use that as your source of truth. It’s an appeal to authority fallacy.
I suppose that’s one way of resolving the cognitive dissonance that comes with the ideal of communism and the way it was implemented in practice. Just mix the terminology enough and it’s all good again.
We had 60,000 years of communism here in Australia and it was great. We had no state, no money, no privileged social classes.
Stalin never even claimed that the USSR had achieved communism, but here you are, saying it was communism. You’ve drank Stalin’s flavor-aid even harder than the man himself. You’re the USSR’s hype-person, bigging them up, exaggerating their accomplishments.
It’s really nothing like that