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.
I had a great uncle (after whom I was named) in the partisan forces against the Nazi’s. They got put in one of the concentration camps, so I have a record of their courage. Luckily for them they got out alive. As far as I am aware, no direct members of any particular parties. I definitely have a full spectrum of good and evil in my ancestry, especially on my USian side. Much to atone for, much to live up to.
Fairly sure my grandpa was part of the red guards.
Also I’m also fairly sure he read theory to me when I was younger, or at least someone did. Because when I read Mao’s work, my first thought was that it was definitely not my first time reading this.
Seeing as my family is from Belarus, everyone in my lineage was either a member of the party, or better yet, fought in the Great Patriotic War.
All of my grandparents were socialist/communist which trickled down to me being raised that way (wasn’t until about 3 years ago that I actually started reading theory, but was exposed to the ideas all my life essentially since I had the privilege of growing up with all 4 being a constant presence). I’m also from a former Yugoslavian country, both grandfathers fought in WW2, one in Croatia, one in Montenegro. My grandmother still goes to a monthly meeting called the Union of Fighters which is retired or previously serving partisans.
No I got unlucky and my ancesters are fascists. It is what it is
Consider your existence a victory over that shite ideological doorstop, comrade.
It brings me joy to think of them rolling in their graves
The circumstances of your birth are irrelevant. You are what you choose to be, comrade shark fucker
So are mine, my nonno was a Mussolini supporter. He was also the rarest form of fascist, a pacifist. In true Italian fashion despite supporting Mussolini he emigrated internationally instead of staying to help build fascism.
It helps me feel like the right kind of class traitor though so I don’t mind.
I didn’t know that kind of guy existed. Neat. I got a bunch of Quislings on one side of my family and Germans who conspicuously moved to the US in 1946. Most of my family these days is just bog standard liberals with one or two major trump supporters. Weirdly the furthest left is my grandmother who’s father at least sympathized with fascists.
I don’t think my Nonno was an ideological fascist to be fair. My mother says he supported Mussolini because “kids had bikes and the trains ran on time.” He was apparently supposed to be a tanker in the Africa corps but the transport with the tanks was sunk and he left to Switzerland afterwards.
My mother says he didn’t kill bugs in the house, he just released them outside. I don’t know if “pacifist” is the right word due to the political connotations behind it, but he was anti ‘him doing violence’.
I’ve also got German family but they left for Poland in the early 30s then internationally in the mid to late 30s. Someone on that side was a clairvoyant I think. Also apparently my grandfather’s grandfather was a political pacifist who was drafted into the German military. He served in the band.
Mine were all American empire supporting liberals (hey that’s a double tautology!). At least one of them took me to an anti iraq war (the 90s one) march when I was a baby and got me on the right path (although she’s a bill maher type now).
One of my grandfathers was a committed communinst. He was born in abject poverty in a tiny village. The socialist government radically improved his conditions and it made him loyal for life. Sadly he died when I was in primary school so I never got to talk to him about it. I just know what my parents told me about him.
The grandparents on the other side of the family are sadly virurently racist anticommunists. Grandmother proudly told me how her family hosted a nazi officer during the war. Cut contact with those assholes a long time ago and it improved my life significantly.
My grandad had 5 brothers who all died fighting against the Nazi’s, he was a communist because of this.
My great great grandfather had his farm collectivized in the early USSR and was salty about it. When I visited a relative and looked at the old family album there was a photo of orthodox priests doing the Nazi salute, what that was doing in there I can only guess. My grandfather at least from what I know was more neutral about the USSR and traveled there to meet relatives.
No communists sadly, but I’ve got a couple commited union members in my family. My grandma still talks to this day about the strike she was in with her bus driver union and my parents have been loyal union members for years
One in East Germany and a few in Communist Hungary. I am from the United States, so most of my family members are Republican and very anti-communist.
Yeah have quite a few people who volunteered in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and were involved in various socialist/communist parties at home before and after
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.
One of mine was damn near the opposite. Door to door anti-communist type. 😬 But when you consider I’m a white Yankee, it’s probably a common affliction within that demographic, especially during the height of the Red Scare. Nowadays the same type would probably be posting daily about it instead of going door to door.
yup, to WW2 on the soviet side
I am related to several provisional ira volunteers including my great uncle
