• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    In case people aren’t aware, the Victims of Communism foundation is a US government organization that was set up by an act of congress in 1993.

    Congress also passed a bill funding them to design highschool curriculum, called the “crucial communism teaching act”.

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      18 hours ago

      Just reminded me of a history teacher who, when teaching the Containment policy, showed us a jar with a slip of paper contained within, which read “COMMUNISM”. Displayed prominently in the classroom thereafter.

      Didn’t work on me. When my assigned seat changed such that the jar and I were out of view of the teacher while at the board, I popped the lid off in front of everyone.

      Lol

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        My high school history class stopped the tankman video right before the tank tried to move out of the way and said “this is the only footage to escape the oppressive regime. We don’t know what happened to tank man but we assume he was run over”

        When I finally saw the full video I thought it was fake