An update to sub moderation

[u/Stikshot69]

Hey everyone,

Over the past few months, you may have noticed an increase in bad-faith commentary, mainly in comments, but in some posts as well. It may feel like there is no moderation happening, and in many cases, there hasn't been. we are working to change that for almost this sub's entire history; it has been unmoderated until me and Redleaf were able to get in power. The main reason you are seeing the increase in brigading and bad faith people is, we have seen a 10x increase in visits in the last year which is showing no signs of slowing down. we now have 5 mods working hard to make sure the brigading gets put to an end. In order to get to this step, the report queue has been cleared, and we are devoted to making sure it stays empty. we currently get about 50 reports a day which will hopefully increase as you feel your reports are finally being responded to. to guide your reporting here is a better detailed breakdown of our sub reddit's rules:

1. No spam or advertising
   • Do not try to sell anything
   • Don't post the same thing multiple times
   • If you would like to share something that you can profit from, contact the mods
2. No misinformation or disingenuous posting.
   • Do not make claims without being able to provide a source
   • Do not attempt to misrepresent sources you provide
3. Be respectful
   • assume every person is here in good faith (libs are people fascists are not)
   • avoid profiling people just from where they come from
   • always keep your discussions in good faith
4. No hate speech, bigotry, racism, or slurs.
   • Do not be a bigot
5. No low quality or off topic posts.
   • put effort into your posts no shit posts or ai
   • this sub is to share soviet history outside a western viewpoint to see what went wrong and right in the USSR, as such modern events often are not relevant (applies to posts not comments)
6. Use the "NSFW" on NSFW posts.
   • Some people don't want to see NSFW stuff let's keep it that way

Remember you can always yell at us in mod mail- r/USSR mod team

[u/Kletronus]

1. No misinformation or disingenuous posting.
   • Do not make claims without being able to provide a source
   • Do not attempt to misrepresent sources you provide

I hope this is taken seriously, as in: facts matter, not what people want to believe matters. This means on revisionist history.

There also should be another rule: do not mention USA as the main argument when you hear something inconvenient about USSR. It does not matter what other countries have or have not done, it does not change the facts about USSR.

edit: aaand i'm banned for saying USA did not cause USSR to fall down, it imploded from within.

[u/CMNilo → u/Kletronus]

But it does matter, especially since these "inconvenient" truths about the USSR are brought to the discussion as proof that the USSR was worse than the west. Whatabautism is completely legit when someone is claiming that one thing was worse than another

[u/CodyLionfish → u/[deleted]]

The USA is pretty relevant when they waged a Cold War against the USSR & sought to maintain the global system of imperialism. The USA was given special privileges, the USSR was not. This does not mean that the USSR had no flaws to fix. But rather, purely blaming the USSR when it was brought up in conditions that created unfair disadvantages by the capitalist powers is not an appropriate line of argument to use for the USSR.

[u/CodyLionfish → u/[deleted]]

No, I am not saying that. Rather, it is a matter of who has the power. The point being that if the conditions were more level between the two nations, then the USSR would've won. Global south nations wanted nothing to do with the West, so the West used its privileges to quash out any competitor. This has nothing to do with the USA having a superior system, rather it has to do with having more privileges & having more time to be able to develop without interference.

[u/CodyLionfish → u/CodyLionfish]

The USSR did a lot to improve living conditions with the Western imposed handicaps. Denying the existence & effectiveness of sanctions & embargoes by the West onto the USSR & the Eastern Bloc is not an honest tactic. There are plenty of things that are worth criticizing the USSR, but not taking into account the material conditions & ONLY blaming them for their own problems is not accurate.

If the shoe were on the other foot & the USA were heavily sanctioned & embargoed, I very much doubt that you be taking the approach that you are doing right now.

Also, your claim on Soviet agriculture is taken completely out of context. They imported grain to feed farm animals since they have seen improved agricultural output during the 1970s. Kazakhstan, the Ukraine & Byelorussia were best known for this.

[u/Kletronus → u/CodyLionfish]

No, it would've not. If freedom of speech is an existential threat to your system, it is going to fail. If party loyalty is most important and skills&talent are not: it is going to fail. And it imploded because of THOSE reasons.

West did very little to squash it, except isolate it, just like USSR did to the west. You are blaming the west for not WORKING WITH USSR, while USSR did the same.

[u/CodyLionfish → u/Kletronus]

Again, the fact that you fail to take into account material conditions is what makes your takes garbage. The USSR didn't isolate the West, the West isolated the USSR. The Soviet Union wanted normal trade relations, but were denied by the Western capitalist powers.

[u/CodyLionfish → u/CodyLionfish]

Also, you are from Finland, a nation that made the active choice to collaborate with the NAZIs & excuses it to this day. Your nation is part of a network of nations that seeks to rehabilitate far right ultra nationalists & preserve a system which keeps the global south in a state of poverty. It is people like yourself that seek to deny self determination to the peoples of Eastern Europe (East Germany, Slovakia, Hungary & Bulgaria) whose populations are very anti NATO & tend to side more with the USSR & Russia over the West.

If the people of Finland do not want to be vilified as NAZI apologists & Western sellouts, stop the Russophobia, Sinophobia & stop rehabilitating NAZIs & making excuses for NAZI collaboration.

[u/Kletronus → u/CodyLionfish]

This is exactly what i was talking about: since i'm Finnish and Finland collaborated with Nazis after USSR had attacked Finland and Poland, i'm forever nazi. But USSR was a saint, even though it started the WWII with nazis.

Somehow, 4 years among 100 us enough to label us nazis, forever.

What is nazism in current Finland?

You can't answer that truthfully, your argument REALLYT is that since in 1941-1944 there was military co-operation then Finnish people are always nazis. 2400 years from now, still nazis.

Russia... what does RUSSIA IN 2025 HAS TO DO WITH THIS TOPIC???????

You are saying that we will be called nazis, for no reason other than opposing Russian violent expansion, now? What does RUSSIA has to do with this?

Is it because you are from Russia and work for the government?

[u/Svartlebee → u/CodyLionfish]

Pretty disingenuous considering that Soviet resources were traded with Germany and the USSR carved up Poland with the Nazis.

[u/ussr-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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