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      Makes sense. (By the way, I watched the video, and it’s about as intellectually lightweight as you would expect).

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    They jumped in Daddy USA’s lap to save their asses so of course they will be a shittier copy of what America is to appeal to them.

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    Who can say? But it’s a tactic of Nazis everywhere to bring up the soviet union unprompted to prove a vague point.

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    Is there any merit to the idea that the USSR helped establish Israel? I’ve heard it before but wasn’t sure if it was true

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      From what I understand, yes. It was a fairly standard leftist position back then, and a lot of people assumed Israel would be a socialist state. Obviously this didn’t last; I believe the mid-50s was when the Soviet Union started taking the (correct) anti-Israel line. But they did support Israel initially.

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      We have a post or two about it here, you could do a search for it.

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      Okay so my basic understanding is that Jews living in Europe wanted their own state and the only serious option being put forward was Crimea. Crimea was essential to USSR military and the biggest voices advocating for it were killed/deported. Crimea was not an option, but the majority of Jews still remained in Eastern Europe.

      After living through the Holocaust, Stalin worried that Eastern Europe would remain a tinder box of ethnic nationalism and thought the best idea was moving them to another place outside the Soviet Union. Palestine made the most sense at the time because it is the area westerners wanted and it was outside Stalin sphere of influence.

      Edit: Stalins number one goals from 1945 till his death was rebuilding the Soviet Union and keeping peace with the west until strength was rebuilt.