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Is there anyone here who has had family with ties to past communist movements? (Wars, revolutions, being members of parties etc.) (lemmygrad.ml)

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Title. As some of you know, I'm Macedonian. Like most Macedonians I've got (better to say once had) members of my family in the Yugoslav partisan forces during WW2. I also have members of my family that were refugees from the Greek civil war (as they were children at the time) (I am one half aegean Macedonian, being Macedonians who once lived in the greek region of Macedonia (I know, confusing, this is the one of the reasons for the whole name debacle)). Would like to know if anyone here has a communist lineage.

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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My parents' generation is extremely reactionary but i think one of my grandfathers may have been a communist, or at least generally aligned with communist ideals since he worked in a position that required some ideological education back in the socialist era. He was still sympathetic to Russia/the USSR when i was growing up and i could tell from our conversations he had a fairly Marxist/materialist world view in some respects. No party members unfortunately that i know of, but maybe there were some in my extended family and nobody told me because it became fashionable to deny ever being a communist after the counter-revolutionary coup.