Message from @Kombat-Unit
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It's honestly a depressing story you're telling here.
Tragicomedic
One of my favorite things is Ben explaining Orwell's motives for writing 1984, how his experience in Spain inspired him - he was accused of being a Fascist and ostracized for intellectual reasons.
The left ostracizes the minority of smart, objective leftists
A lot of Finnish immigrants in Americans also went to Russia to "build socialism" and only to be executed as class enemies. By 1940 there was only one of the leaders of the Red Guard and original Finnish "red mutiny" alive.
He musta lost a metric fuckton of faith in leftism, considering this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell's_list
Communists in the know consider Orwell a traitor, he's basically a prophet of what's wrong with leftism
*1941 with Antikainen having killed himself.
I'm actually curious...uhh what communities of Germans were in the USSR at the time?
Basically every non-Russian minority had mass executions for imaginary "white bandit" or "fascist" infiltrators.
Volga Germans?
yeah it's kinda ironic how the USSR de-facto defaulted to Russian ethnochauvinism out of pragmatism
I remember Russia got a lot of immigrants during Czarina Catherine.
From Germany.
1700ish?
!
I remember
Yep we're on the same wavelength
I feel like as I said it may have been sheer pragmatism because the people more likely to oppose the regime were non-ethnic Russians
hence I say de-facto
I get it.
To be frank though most eastern block nationalism, whilst it could be technically described as such, was seriously unhealthy and neurotic - less bad than ethnically displacing your people with migrants, sure, but it always seemed mental
Communists even do nationalism wrong
Nazbols always jump to their defense "woah man the USSR kept out multiculturalism" yeah because there was zero incentive for large amounts of non-white immigrants to go to closed economic societies
they stayed homogenous incidentally
Stalin made enemies of all nationalists while Hitler made them his friends. Israel is held by some retards as an example of nationalism, when it's the worst possible example, it is basically universally hated by other nationalists because of their endless jewish chauvinism that makes coexistence impossible.
^^^
People will say woah Israel sent weapons to Rhodesia and South Africa under apartheid
yeah and they kept sending shit to the regimes that replaced them
it was just because they didn't give a fuck and wanted to make money in spite of sanctions
"It's really amazing how they survive against all those hostile nations like the crushed slice of occupied Palestine with tens of billions of dollars and newest American high tech."
Crazy how nature do that
Also
"Israel is protecting us from terrorism by shooting hellfire missiles at rock throwers. God Bless Israel!"
yeah it makes zero sense Israeli policy has no effect on terrorism in the west
It's actually just shallow "hahah they kill Muslims Muslims cause us problems" but from a pragmatic perspective there's nothing there
They save Europe by destabilizing Middle East.
It might be just crazy enough to work