You mean the core component of the fascist worldview? Not that I'd expect a Juche LARPer not to enthusiastically share some of their views. No, I don't "palingenesis" and don't intend to.
Who said anything about the Russian Revolution? The Russian Revolution was a proletarian uprising. The Soviet Union on the other hand eventually repressed class struggle to ensure a smooth process of primitive accumulation. State-socialist regimes were first and foremost developmental dictatorships whose chief goal was bridging the gap with the West at any cost. But they are, and I'm waiting for you to prove otherwise. If your rehearsal goes on forever, it's not a rehearsal anymore — it's a masquerade. Stalin abandoned any attempt at fomenting global revolution and eventually settled with the nation-state framework and "national interests" as the state's sole horizon. That's what I mean when I say the left lacks any sort of imaginary. This is evidence of impotence, not of resurgence. It's not "evil", it politically bankrupt. Of course. :^)
Anthony Torres
Keep deluding yourself fam. I’m not saying that Russians (or Eastern Europeans in general) don’t genuinely have Soviet sympathies, but denying the role that Russian nationalism plays in people’s views on the USSR is just sticking your head in the sand.
So? Just because some people are incapable of thinking for good of themselves and want their whole nation to turn socialist again doesn’t mean you are seeing reactionaries. Real die-hard nationalists despise soviet era because of ”””foced internationalist propaganda”””.
And if there is anything wrong with loving soil you were born on and wanting people to live decent lives there, I don’t know what is right.
Brandon Morales
I’m not saying nationalism is bad, I’m saying that lots of people’s positive views of the USSR are motivated (at least in part) by memories of military parades and talking tough to America, not actually being happy and prosperous under socialism (although that’s clearly a part of it as well).
Owen Brown
This. From a Russian poll: > The majority of those who were unhappy with the collapse of the USSR said they missed a unified economic system. They were followed by respondents who said that people "lost the feeling that they belonged to a great power.” Others cited a rise in “mutual distrust and bitterness."
Ayden Edwards
it sure is. I bet lot's of 70+ y/o remember that, and lot's of them can still go to annual military parades featuring same weapons they had then.
I bet that If you'd talk to 40+ y/o people, especially if you'd befriend them and they would stop feeling need to behave in politically correct way and praise """democracy""", they would say you you are wrong.
you also forgot and I will bet half of my possessions that lot's of high schoolers learn words of SU hymn only for that.
You are trying to prove something which can not be proven or disproven. Slight "nationalism" in post-socialist slavic sense (except for juhoslavia, those guys are weird) is pretty much american-tier patriotism of "I am proud American because I became american not by birth but by choice". It can be somehow homophobic, racialist or whatnot, but your disgust for those things is created only by your natural distrust towards other cultures.
