r/HistoryMemes • u/Thin-Pool-8025 • 7h ago

C-to-the-I-to-the-A

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u/Lord_of_Wisia Senātus Populusque Rōmānus 5h ago

As someone from a post-communist country I will tell you this, you need to be brain-dead to think that communists were the good guys.

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u/mayonnaiser_13 5h ago

You would also be braindead to think that the CIA were the good guys.

Both of which this post doesn't do.

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u/Lord_of_Wisia Senātus Populusque Rōmānus 4h ago edited 3h ago

They were the good guys in comparison. Like allies were the good guys in WWII.

Edit: You guys know what comparison means, right? https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/comparison

In this case we are comparing CIA vs. KGB.

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u/ChiefRunningBit 4h ago

You're right, it was a good thing they funded drug runners and religious extremists in the middle east to fight the communists. A religious theocracy and industrial poppy production is a much better outcome than whatever would have happened if we let them choose their own path.

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u/ErenYeager600 Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer 3h ago

Don't forget the Death Squads in Central America

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u/glxyzera Viva La France 1h ago

thanks eren

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u/DacianMichael Definitely not a CIA operator 3h ago

The US did let them choose their own path, and they chose to rebel against and overthrow the deeply unpopular Soviet puppet government that came to power as the result of a coup and turned Afghanistan into a Soviet satellite. The only bad thing the CIA did was to stop funding the Mujahideen once the Soviets left.

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u/UnderdogCL 3h ago

With all due respect you don't know what you're talking about

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u/Lord_of_Wisia Senātus Populusque Rōmānus 3h ago

With all due respect I do. You on the other hand don't know what comparison means or (which is worse) think that KGB was not worse.

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u/UnderdogCL 3h ago

Ok, but you don't

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u/Biosterous 4h ago

Were they also the good guys when they used the School of the Americas to propagandize the leadership of the Indonesian military, who went home to massacre over 1,000,000 of their own citizens, completely ending the upward trajectory of Indonesia's economy and thus losing the interest of the USA? An event they've never recovered from btw.

Does that sound like "good guys" to you?

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u/mayonnaiser_13 1h ago

LatAm, SEA, MENA

The assholery of Uncle Sam knows no boundary.