| > During the Cold War, ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union were treated just as bad as US minorities. This part is simply not true. > Today the situation is even worse. This part is. The USSR was never institutionally racist. Russian chauvanism was still a thing in the USSR and that was relic of the Tsarist era that keeps on giving. The USSR's repressions were not a cut and dry wealth transfer between ethnicities unlike the US policies. At their worst in terms of American morality, institutionally targeted programs were to enforce political control and break nationalistic tendencies of ethnic groups. The vast majority of the repressions in the USSR were a result of the explosive growth of productive forces. It's very hard to make the case for the USSR that the benefits of those productive forces inherently benefitted Russians over everyone else. It's very easy to make the case in the US for white supremacy. |
1. The USSR always discriminated non Russian speakers. 2. Collectivisation and military occupation was used as a large scale wealth transfer. In addition forced reeducation camps and population swaps were used to put Russian observers into positions where they were first amongst equals
Russian imperialism has always been the core of the Soviet union.
When people rised up against Russian occupation they got slaughtered in Hungary in 1956 and later in 1968 with the Prague Spring Russian oppression continued