[yaakov34]

Now you are taking this in a strange direction - it's true that there is a stream of anti-Communism or anti-Sovietism which comes from an angle of Russian nationalism, or imperialism, or chauvinism, or whatever you want to call it, but it was not a particularly large or significant stream at the time when Solzhenitsyn created his main works. One of the justified criticisms of Solzhenitsyn's later works is that he retroactively rewrites his motivations and even actions in order to place himself within that stream (he started out as a fairly orthodox believer in the Soviet ways, of which you can find traces in his early works, but not in his late works), and he also insults many of his friends and allies at the time, who did not follow him in this more imperialist direction.

[ultrastable]

tbh when I mentioned the figure of the reactionary who blames history on Jews I wasn't thinking of something specifically anti-Soviet or even Russian - European or Western would have been a better way of putting it, Hitler being the cliché example

[bobthechef]

Btw Soviet Russia was imperial.