Vladimir Putin makes you head of a committee to decide how the Russian Federation shall remember the Soviet Union.
Like, should they apologize? To whom? How to deal with people who are still "Soviets at heart"? What to write in school boks. Should there be more monuments for the victims of Stalin? What should the official line for teachers, politicians in the media and diplomacy be. Things like that.
What do you tell him?
Apologize for nothing, do what is best for Russia, don't turn back to communism, glorify the future while viewing the past as glorious [but less so than the future], ignore and suppress the fact that modern Russia is anathema to Soviet doctrine and ways of life, stop kidnapping British spies and feeding them to sharks.
This pretty much.
Putin himself said "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain."
There are certain aspects that could be used to "glorify" ("Sputnik crisis") but only to defend Russia against forces that want to break it up even further, NATO at its borders, Ukraine, etc.
Russia has geopolitical interests just like every other state and completely condemning the Soviet Union might play in the hands of the US when it comes to Russia's bordering nations like Ukraine.
Everything this man said, except for the shark idea. Keep feeding British people to sharks. Sounds like fun.
Fuck off to /pol/
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>Not supporting a megalomaniac with small man syndrome is literally a stereotypical SJW from tumblr
Nah fuck that.
Build a monument to Lenin on every street corner, it's mandatory for teachers to lead the class in singing L'Internationale while saluting the portrait of Stalin that's mandatory for every classroom, and double down on the fact that Holodomor was not a genocide.
>soviet
>not imperialist
Not gonna lie it basically was but Lenin was no imperialist.
play russian ark in all elementary schools
>stereotypical
Are you trying to imply there are good types of SJWs?
Homodomor literally did not happen (but it should happen again)
>falling for US state department propaganda
shiggydiggy
It did happen, but its debatable if it was caused on purpose, to punish a rebellion there, or by incompetence.
You re confusing with holocost, I don't blame you the names are pretty similar
Remember it as a relatively necessary evil that produced horrors and great wonders alike and inspired an overwhelming feeling of brotherhood.
Wouldn't apologize for anything,I would do all I can to keep Russia on it's way of becoming a capitalist powerhouse while preserving some socialist methods of cheaply improving Russian human resources ,embellish the glory of the past in order to develop the ambitions for an even greater future,protect Russian interests at all cost and use her rising popularity to further her agenda global theater of politics.
(secretly organize annual hunts on Chechen separatists).
>Like, should they apologize? To whom?
everyone who was part of it or a neighbor of russia.
Rather than apologizing, I think they should just admit that it was evil, end of story. Russians shouldn't bear the sins of stalinists, no point turning Russia into another self-loathing state like Germany.
>Apologizing
When did this meme start? Like, what good does it do for the nation apologizing and the nation being apologized to?
You don't bring back lost lives, you create presedence cases which could cause reparation payments, you just ease some diplomatic tension... but at what cost?
Is it really worth it? Did someone do the "math"?
How is this thread supporting Putin?
makes them look like chumps if they go "nuh uh that wasn't our fault" in an official capacity later. it's just about what the nation "stands for" or shit like that.
that's why he annexed the Caucasian states right?
fuck I meant that for
> Like, should they apologize? To whom?
Nah. We can skip that part.
> How to deal with people who are still "Soviets at heart"
Let them die peacefully with their crushed dreams and lost hopes
> What do you tell him?
Soviet Union was an important part of Russian history but it is gone forever, something in that way of thinking.