Communist Russia put on a theatre of support for fledgling leftist governments to needle the US, same as they did with the whole education thing and so on.Originally Posted by eyeswideopen
Anyone who thinks it was anything other than propaganda is deluded. The USSR was a dictatorial, brutal regime. The USA might have it woeful record on race as well, but dont get sidetracked by anti - US Sentiment;millions headed to the US, not away from it.
If I could mass-sterilise the planet, I would. Seriously.
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Yes, indeed. And Stalin was so pleased with this homeland for the Jews that in 1953 he was planning to move all the Jews in the USSR there....those who were still alive that is. As for the Volga Germans, they-as the name obviously suggests-lived in the Volga region.Their new ASSR was not on the Volga. They were moved to their new home en masse. They didn't get a choice.
A Wikipedia entry is as bad or good as the person making the entry. The article in question is referenced. If you don't like it,find evidence to refute it. As for relying on Caels opinion of Wikipedia..if I recall another time he also denounced all academic Western (and indeed Russian) works, not just web sources, which contradicted his bizarre views.
It was Russia within the Soviet Union that was the colonial power. And The Soviet Union under Stalin imposed Russified Governments that were totally subservient to the USSR on the countries of Eastern Europe. These governments saw the interests of the USSR as being paramount. That's colonial practice.
There is an African-American, 'black' president in the USA now. I wonder how long we will have to wait until there is a Jewish,Tartar or Chechen president of the Russian Federation?
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Moron.
Your beloved Malcolm X was the equivalent of the KKK.
Your knowledge of him probably extends to owning a tee shirt with his face on it.
the soviet union invaded finland in the late thirteis to be a coloinial power, it also sent tanks onto the streets of hungry to keep its puppet regime in power...........
"Sometimes the best thing a government can do is simply get out of the way"-Vince Cable
Millions headed to the US because of its economic power and the fact that it was not war torn.
The USSR was among the brutal evil regimes in all of history.
The history of racism and discrimination experienced by blacks in the US is shocking and evil but it pales in comparison to the mass murder of millions of entirely innocent people by communist fanatics who controlled Russia and its satelites for 70 years.
There is no redeeming features of the Soviet system whatsoever.
Also East Germany and the Czech Republic. Russia under Stalin, as I said, treated the peripheral Eastern European states as a buffer zone. If you look at the historic maps, you'll see the Tzars did pretty much the same.
Stalinism was a retrograde, parasitic tendency, that did enormous damage. It was not however colonialist in the same sense as Britain, France and the United States, which all in predatory fashion occupied and robbed territory all over the world. An example of the difference would be the Soviet backed democratic regime in Afghanistan, that in its clumsy way was trying to secularise and modernise the state, with education for women as a norm, as compared to Karzai, with his corrupt drug funded colleagues, putting through laws that make it legal to rape and starve your wife.
The economic drive of capitalism is to extend into new territories to extract profit from their labour forces and raw materials. The workers state economy, although mixed in character, did not have that same drive.
Despite the appalling treatment of African-Americans by their white contemporaries, enormous numbers of blacks volunteered to fight in the US armed forces in World War 2 and many fought and died heroically in combat against the Nazis even though they experienced Jim-Crow from their white comrades. Many whites who had been racist changed their attitudes when they saw the heroism of so-called inferiors.I'm not suprised any black person would want to flee AmeriKKKa.
The Korean War and the Vietnam War also saw huge numbers of blacks volunteering to fight for their country. Despite the myth of perpetrated by the Black Panthers and the anti-war movement the overwhelming majority of Americans who fought in the Vietnam War volunteered for duty and the black community in America were no exceptions.
The vast majority of American blacks who campaigned for their rights never lost faith in the American dream and never questioned that they could achieve change through the democratic system and the constitution.
Don't ever remember Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Roumania or Hungary being part of Tsarist Russia.
Your point is ?
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