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by nl 572 days ago
> nearly everyone in the USSR was a farmer, so not proletariat and not communist

This statement has a number of flaws.

> nearly everyone in the USSR was a farmer

True during the early years, but after WW2 changed rapidly (in line with the West). [1] shows rural population percentage dropped from 67% in 1939 to 56% in 1956, and it rapidly decreased after that. [2] is female specific but by 1975 under 1/3 were working in agriculture.

In addition, everyone other than the actual owner of the land was considered "The Agricultural Proletariat". Engels wrote [3] about this in 1845 well before the establishment of the Soviet Union.

> so not proletariat

As seen above, this doesn't follow especially after the establishment of collective farming where everyone were considered workers.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/1233891

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_working_class#Women

[3] https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-w...

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> As seen above, this doesn't follow especially after the establishment of collective farming where everyone were considered workers.

Correct! Farmers owned the landed, the communists came and stole it from them - sorry "collectivized" it - and so made it worse for the farmers turned proletariat. So you understand that farmers hated communists.