We all know that anti-communism is at the core of fascism. This short thread proposes an interesting corrolary: much of the anti-Soviet attitude found in formerly socialist Eastern European countries, and ultimately perhaps even the motivation of the significant section of the population that did not stand to gain materially yet still supported the restoration of capitalism and the fracturing of the USSR is resentment at having been excluded from the West’s white supremacist global hegemony. This infatuation with the supposed “superiority” of the West, the internalized inferiority complex and desire to be included among the “white” Europeans as opposer to the “inferior, barbaric asiatics” is deeply embedded in the collective consciousness of especially countries like Poland, Ukraine and the Baltics, but also Romania and much of the Balkans.

The author of the thread cites Georgia as an example with which they are personally familiar, and i can only confirm that i have experienced the same attitudes and self-hatred among Romanians.

Would others who have experience with the cultural attitudes of these countries agree with this thesis?

  • @Lemmy_Mouse
    2•1 year ago

    I wasn’t able to find where this group is funded by the EU, but it’s stances, it’s actions, and it’s existence despite running counter to the interests of the region, certainly imply this to be likely. Their ideological position of Russia’s SMO being an imperial war, as well as their gap in their line of action (agitate, agitate again, mobilize) which completely lacks both educate and organize infer they rely upon an outside leadership and that is what their preparations are orientated towards, not the lies they assert. This lady is indeed a contributor to this group as admitted on the link you provided. A simple analysis of this group as well as her Twitter (specifically what she and her org she links in her profile retweet) will hint at this to being the case, and the link provided by Hmmmm does the remainder.

    Now a new question arises; what does the west gain from revising Soviet history to be viewed in terms of white envy? And I believe simply writing out what the actual behaviors are here is enough to transform this question into a rhetorical one. Explicitly though, It’s an ahistorical attempt at social teraformation (reformatting social conversation, culture, education) so as to make the post-Soviet space more susceptible to western propaganda and thus control. But this will fail, as that link even demonstrates (paraphrasing)“we cannot gain a foothold in several sectors due to ideological differences”. This is far more than ideological differences, but I won’t elaborate at this time.

    This doesn’t mean that this social tendency is new, or that this group was responsible for planting this idea, nor that the west now is responsible for it as opposed to their ancestors, or even this being an objective organic development centuries ago. This is just to say that this person and her organizations are using this sentiment, this idea, to benefit the west. It’s origins (as hinted by comrades in other comments) escape this particular comment of which I am replying to, but I just wanted to address this so as to not be misunderstood in terms of the scope of my comment.