Like, this place, Ulyanovsk, birthplace of Lenin, only Ruissian UNESCO city of literature…it’s got to be fucking sick, right?
Russia has a reputation of being full of reactionaries these days but are there still places where socialist culture remains?
Pardon me for asking such a dumb question, Russia is a massive country, so the answer is probably yes. It’s just that those of us behind the burger curtain don’t really get to learn much about massive fucking nations such as Russia, China, or India. In school we are taught that every culture east of Leipzig or South Africa is a homogenous blob. ‘Once you’ve seen Moscow, you’ve already seen Cambodia’, was the MO in high school
In the Czech republic this is the case at least, though these pockets are fading. Mostly certain areas of downtown Prague and rural mining and tourist towns.
Are there any specific cities/towns you know of?
It’d probably doxx me if I got too specific but a quick way to check is KSCM voting patterns in local city councils
But yeah we still have cops that were from the communist era and are communist in my hometown, they only really harass rich tourists for breaking rules. It’s a small town and I’m trans and they know it and have never bothered me. Its a pretty close knit community that shares a lot, like whenever I visit home everyone does a big dinner so I actually know these people fairly well
wish you could share but I understand completely.I’ve always wanted to visit Prague and Czechia.one slight concern is that I have the likeness of a Romani person and I hear the brainworms against Romani are largest and meatiest in Czech Republic lol
Trying to look up KSCM voting based on city/town
I think speaking Spanish while looking like a Romani person and being a communist might literally put 5 GTA stars above your head if you go to most parts of Europe.
I don’t think it’d be a problem in our town or Prague but plenty of places in Czechia are very reactionary now and will fuck with brown people for fun. In Prague they’d probably just think you’re Turkish or Kazakh. I’ve heard a lot of racist shit coming from the Ukrainian population that moved to Prague tho
Russia may be better at this they’re fairly multiethnic
I don’t understand what this means lol
I want a game that uses Disco Elysium’s same insanely well crafted narrative system and wonderful writing…
… but it’s about a young witch trying to solve the disappearance of her neighbour’s cat in a small village in the Alps"
Let me guess, communist boomers (don’t ask their views on anything from vaccination to LGBT rights), fashy middle aged people, very fashy youths that like libertarian economics.
Communists in Czechia are fine on LGBT stuff in my experience these days, the older ones have caught up. Young men are very libertarian and the middle aged people vote socdem and handwring about the evil commies that want Russia to roll in the tanks
From what I’ve heard a number of unions are unabashedly communist. Especially the auto workers union which has connections to the main extra parliamentary communists.
Thank God they saved something out of the collapse. Strong, principled unions with open communist ideals? Hell yeah.
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Support for socialism (and a nostalgia for the USSR) is still fairly high across the board among Russians. If Russia were to suddenly adopt socialism tomorrow, most people would accept it. They may not like it, they may even be critical of communism, but most would still accept it over the current system. The same cannot be said for any of the Western capitalist countries.
The biggest hurdle is how are you going to convince the people that a second USSR won’t turn into another disaster.
Remember that most people today who have lived through the USSR period also lived through its most corrupt and inept period during the late USSR. The older generations who grew up in the 50s-early 70s had great memories of it, but many people growing up in the 80s have a very different view of what the USSR meant to them.
Besides, and perhaps even more importantly, those who lived through the nightmare of the 1990s do not want to return to that period any longer. They would rather have stability, even if it meant a more deteriorated material condition but still rather comfortable and safe, than to risk plunging the country into another mass poverty and crime-ridden era. Putin played a very important role in stopping that madness, which is a fact that many have come to accept despite criticisms of him.
Read up what happened to Russia in the 1990s and you will very quickly understand that the living memories of the period still haunt every Russian to this day.
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Mostly industrial and rural areas. Moscow is overwhelmingly anticommunist, St. Petersburg and North Caucasus aren’t much better, but other places are overall full of pro-Soviet people, but this nostalgy is completely unorganized. Still, it is noticeable that the authorities know about it and are increasingly trying to appeal to it. It also limits the degree of anticommunism the authorities can afford to do without significant protests.
The DPR is now part of Russia and has tons of socialist-aligned people
Russia is fucking huge and there are a ton of federal entities in it, it’s crazy, look it up you’ll find ehtnic groups you never even knew existed, some of them have their own republics inside russia (though United Russia is usually the ruling party).
I guess maybe a few of those might’ve retained something from the old culture
