He goes to Russia and is immediately made representative of Finno-Karelian SSR in High Soviet Council of Representatives. But he begins to wonder why absolutely no one he knows is alive anymore, and and starts asking questions. He dies less than a year after returning to Soviet Union after NKVD is kicking in his door and he defenestrated himself.
He survived almost a decade of constant threat of execution but dies less than a year after coming home. With friends like Bolsheviks, who needs enemies.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
"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."
