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      How have you been on Lemmy for over a year, and still not run into people who think it was?

      (For my part, I think words have the definition we give them)

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          4 months ago

          The first person?

          In history?

          Or do you mean the thing about words?

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              Ah, well you’re actually fairly new. There will be more, and ones who personally strongly believe it.

              Here’s a graph of activity by instance. Hexbear, lemmygrad and lemmy.ml will all ban you for slagging off Stalin, and together they’re maybe a third of it. It’s because the devs are in that crowd.

              Again, I just try to use words people will understand. My opinion of the USSR is that it was a state existing roughly between 1920 and 1990.