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Here I'll cite sources to debunk common anti-communist and other myths. Of course, if I find more material, I'll add it here.

Titles with an asterisk are not finished.

Anti-communist myths

Soviet Union / Warsaw Pact*

Myth 1: "The Soviet Union manufactured a famine in Ukraine"

Myth 2: "The Soviet Union was a totalitarian dictatorship which killed millions of people"

Myth 3: "The Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact were undemocratic"

Myth 4: "Lenin actually wanted to be succeeded in Trotsky, not Stalin"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 5: "The Nazis and the Soviets were the same and were allies"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 6: "Stalin was an anti-semite"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 7: "Beria was a pedophile"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 8: "The 1921-1922 famine was manufactured by the Soviet Union"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 9: "The 1956 Hungarian Revolution was a democratic revolution against the communists and was brutally repressed by the Soviet Union"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 10: "The Prague Spring was a democratic revolution against the communists and was brutally repressed by the Soviet Union"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 11: "Stalin wanted a divided Germany"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 12: "East Germany was a totalitarian dictatorship which killed everyone who tried to leave and was also poor"*

Myth 13: "Stalin wanted to control Yugoslavia"*

(TO BE STARTED)

People's Republic of China*

Myth 1: "Mao killed ~78 million people"

Myth 2: "China under Mao was a totalitarian dictatorship"

Myth 3: "China has reverted to capitalism"*

Myth 4: "China is a totalitarian dictatorship"*

Myth 5: "China commits a genocide against Uyghurs"*

Myth 6: "China is an imperialist country that wants to puppetize Africa"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 7: "China commits cultural genocide in Tibet"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Cuba

Myth 1: "Che was a bloodthirsty butcher"

Myth 2: "Cuba is a dictatorship and a horrible place to live"

Albania

Myth 1: "Albania was a totalitarian dictatorship"

DPRK*

Myth 1: "North Koreans believe in unicorns and that Kim-Jong-Un is immortal and that the DPRK is the entire world"

Myth 2: "The DPRK is a fascist monarchy"

Myth 3: "Kim Jong Un is a lunatic who wants to nuke the world"

Myth 4: "People who leave North Korea think they've reached heaven and that the DPRK is a shithole which tortured them"

Myth 5: "The Korean War was started by the North"*

(TO BE STARTED)

General anti-communist myths*

Myth 1: "Socialism is an economic failure"

Myth 2: "Everybody hated socialism"

Myth 3: "Life under socialism is/was terrible"*

Myth 4: "There is no innovation under socialism"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Other myths

Yugoslavia*

Myth 1: "Yugoslavia was a Serb-controlled state"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 2: "Slobodan Milošević was a Serbian chauvinist and responsible for the dissolution of Yugoslavia"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 3: "Milošević was responsible for the crimes in Bosnia"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 4: "Milošević commited a genocide in Kosovo"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 5: "Republika Srpska and the Republic of Serbian Krajina were Yugoslav puppet states"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 6: "The KLA were legitimate freedom fighters"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Russia*

Myth 1: "Russia is an imperialist power"*

Russo-Ukrainian war

Myth 1: "Russia is the aggressor"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 2: "Ukraine is not a nazi state"*

(TO BE STARTED)

"Israel" and Palestine*

Myth 1: "Israel is a democratic country"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 2: "Hamas is an anti-Semite terrorist organization"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 3: "Israeli attacks in Gazan civilian infrastructure are necessary to destroy Hamas and are not a genocide"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 4: "Israel commits no genocide and isn't a settler-colonial state"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 5: "Hamas has decapitated babies and raped women during the October 7 attacks"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 6: "The Nakba is fabricated by Palestinian resistance organizations which use human shields to purposefully cause more deaths"*

(TO BE STARTED)

Myth 7: "Palestine is not real"*

(TO BE STARTED)

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