SovereignState

No one outside the us should waste any energy on thinking about them. They sure don’t think about us.

mfers an Australian named Yannis Stanopoulos, who the fuck is us, buddy??

Lavrentiy Beria, head of the NKVD (Soviet secret police) under Stalin. He has been unfairly besmirched by revisionist liberal historians to have been some sexual deviant sadist mass-murderer and leader of mass torture campaigns. In reality, he was instrumental in ending political torture in the USSR and had his predecessor executed for using torture during interrogations.

He was an old-guard Bolshevik and fiercely loyal to Stalin. There was some talk of him being Stalin’s successor as the chairman of the CPSU. Khruschev and his clique then orchestrated a coup d’etat that led to a near-complete destruction of Stalin’s legacy and executions of those loyal to Stalin and Marxism-Leninism, Beria included. Just like Stalin, his legacy of being a brilliant intelligence officer and abolitionist of torture was tarnished and destroyed through claims from Khruschev that he was a sexual deviant, sadist and Stalin’s torturous goon, and perhaps even that he personally assassinated Stalin. I recommend Khruschev Lied by Grover Furr to learn more – the majority of that work is dedicated to debunking lies about Stalin but he does talk about Beria.

I recall an NK News article where they make unfounded claims about a white supremacist who loved the DPRK because of their “ethnic purity” and was granted free travel to the DPRK or some shit. Just unfounded RFA lies ofc. It’s like these idiots read propaganda like this and “The Cleanest Race” or whatever and imagine a “national-socialist” Korea and then support this fictional country in its ethnic-supremacist ambitions. It’s just wild and completely idiotic to buy into right-wing conspiracism and then “reclaim” it unironically. Like taking it at face value that the CPC hates gay people and promotes “traditional values” and supporting it. Or believing that Beria was a sadistic torturer and claiming he didn’t go far enough or some shit.

Comrades have made excellent points in this thread. I do not know but do not think the NPA or the Indian Maoists are using child soldiers.

Something that must be considered regarding human rights accusations about “recruiting” child soldiers is the fact that oftentimes throughout history imperialist forces were killing anyone and everyone. When the Americans invaded the Philippines they gave the order to murder anyone over 13. “Human rights organizations” in the U.S., if they existed at the time, would point out examples of said 13 year olds fighting for their lives against an overwhelming and brutal force as “child soldiers”, all the while forgoing criticizing their own militaries for murdering children, armed or unarmed. A modern example is in Afghanistan, Libya, Palestine and Iraq. A common trope pointed to by Human Rights NGOs and soldiers’ orgs was that “terrorists” would give children grenades and the children would run into platoons of soldiers. There are two ways to look at this.

• The terrorists are violating international law and abusing these childrens’ human rights by making them fight. Why don’t their standing armies only recruit military aged men? What savagery!
• The “standing armies” of these nations don’t actually exist. Either they never existed, they’ve functionally been wiped out, or they are compradors fighting on behalf of the invaders. The invaders are murdering and raping everyone and anyone including children, blowing up schools and hospitals. This is asymmetrical warfare fought by starving and desperate people against an overwhelming force willing to forgo human rights in any suicidal bid in protecting their homes and nations. It’s not right, but war is hell, especially when you have no guns or military.

The first line is pushed by media and NGOs. The second line is closer to the truth. Invaders often show no quarter even to children. The nations they are invading are often underdeveloped. Children are starving and scared. They, and possibly the adults around them, feel they have no option but to fight.

This is not to excuse or attempt to argue in favor of using child soldiers, it is an attempt to understand why they may appear. There are very clear cut cases of terrorist groups like Kony’s “Liberation Army” recruiting child soldiers basically for shits and giggles, because children are easily malleable and controllable. There are also not-so-clear cut cases of desperate peoples resorting to desperate measures.