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Total historical revisionism. It’s frustrating as all hell.
I’ve got a friend who grew up in Ukraine this decade under fascist education and they insist that Lenin and Stalin banned the Ukrainian language.
Nevermind that in actuality Ukrainian culture flourished under Stalin and Russian chauvanism was actively combatted through government policies. Nevermind that more art and books in the Ukrainian language were created than ever before. Nah. They’re rewriting history because of feels.
“The main danger, Great-Russian chauvinism, should be kept in check by the Russians themselves, for the sake of the larger goal of building socialism. Within the (minority) nationality areas new institutions should be organized giving the state a national (minority) character everywhere, built on the use of the nationality languages in government and education, and on the recruitment and promotion of leaders from the ranks of minority groups. On the central level the nationalities should be represented in the Soviet of Nationalities.” - Stalin
shouldn’t Ukrainians also be proud of liberating Europe from the Nazis
Some are. In fact, since that part of the front was called “Ukrainian”, some people have made claims that it was specifically Ukrainians that were doing all the work, and not “Muscovites”.
people refer to the USSR as just Russia, and to soviet people as “Russians”. What’s up with that?
An ongoing and deliberate narrative, pretending that USSR was just “Muscovy occupation” of other people and nations
And this part goes even further, i heard more than a few times that even Russia is just “Muscovy occupation” of… Russia. They really really want to balkanize Russia and push it back to XIV century, probably complete with lithuanian empire.
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Total historical revisionism. It’s frustrating as all hell. I’ve got a friend who grew up in Ukraine this decade under fascist education and they insist that Lenin and Stalin banned the Ukrainian language.
Nevermind that in actuality Ukrainian culture flourished under Stalin and Russian chauvanism was actively combatted through government policies. Nevermind that more art and books in the Ukrainian language were created than ever before. Nah. They’re rewriting history because of feels.
“The main danger, Great-Russian chauvinism, should be kept in check by the Russians themselves, for the sake of the larger goal of building socialism. Within the (minority) nationality areas new institutions should be organized giving the state a national (minority) character everywhere, built on the use of the nationality languages in government and education, and on the recruitment and promotion of leaders from the ranks of minority groups. On the central level the nationalities should be represented in the Soviet of Nationalities.” - Stalin
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Some are. In fact, since that part of the front was called “Ukrainian”, some people have made claims that it was specifically Ukrainians that were doing all the work, and not “Muscovites”.
An ongoing and deliberate narrative, pretending that USSR was just “Muscovy occupation” of other people and nations
And this part goes even further, i heard more than a few times that even Russia is just “Muscovy occupation” of… Russia. They really really want to balkanize Russia and push it back to XIV century, probably complete with lithuanian empire.
The US government literally held an entire conference last year on this exact topic, complete with the theme of “decolonization,” which was inspired by this article, of course written by an employee of an imperialist think tank.
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