Summary
Mass graves uncovered in Syria after Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow reveal evidence of systematic atrocities, with over 100,000 people tortured and killed in what a top war crimes prosecutor described as the worst abuses “since the Nazis.”
Assad’s regime operated a “machinery of death,” involving mass disappearances, torture, and secret burials.
Rebel forces freed thousands of political prisoners, but many remain missing.
International efforts aim to document war crimes, though Assad, now in Russia, is unlikely to face trial.
So really really bog standard socialist stuff.
Why didn’t they compare it to Stalin? His worst abuses were after Nazis and it would’ve tracked more anyway because of the political angle and because both Stalin and al-Assad committed crimes on their “own people”.
Bog standard totalitarianism. Not socialism.
Potato, potahto.
There’s plenty of market-oriented or just straight-up elitist totalitarians to go around.
The Ba’ath Party is as socialist as the nazi party. Hint: not at all.
Genuinely curious, though. Socialism is when the workers own the means of production; How would that cause genocide in your opinion?
What do you mean, “would”?
You implied that socialism kills. How?
Perhaps you meant authoritarianism?
I’m on-side with socialism - but to be fair, most of the real world examples that call/called themselves socialist do have a pretty bad track record of descending into totalitarianism/authoritarianism.
Most of western European governments are democratic socialist for like 50% of the time.
Yup, but those are intentional. That’s how an ML state functions. That’s why Marxism Leninism is a bad idea.
Socialism is when death machine 🤡🤡🤡
Yea, but it’s different because it’s owned by the people collectively 🤡🤡🤡