I have been seeing this remark on his and internet more and more lately. Is there some truth in this? Was Soviet Union in a way a far-left Russian empire?
Was Soviet Union a Russian empire?
David Torres
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Wyatt Peterson
About as much of Russian empire as USA is (or was at this point) anglo-saxon empire.
Benjamin Hall
Maybe Stalin era USSR, but before Stalin it was more like Jewish empire.
Henry Fisher
Yes, it absolutely was. Look at how the economies of the other members of the Warsaw Pact were designed to supply Russia with goods and resources, to the great impoverishment of the non-Russian republics.
Jaxon Myers
>far-left Russian empire
burger education
Ethan Barnes
A communist Russian empire?
Yeah, it is pretty evident that Russians got best part of cake, anywhere and anytime.
Was Russian culture enforced upon non-Russians?
Alexander Robinson
As a ex-Soviet I am biased.
It practically was.
All the smaller republics received major Russian minorities that acted as both parts of the Elite and the working class.
Latvia went from being 80% Latvian in 1935 to 52% in 1989, As the ~1,5m locals were supplemented by nearly 700k Russians and 300k other nationalities. Half the schools were in Russian and they had a different program with only having 11 grades instead of 12 which meant you got faster into higher education if you opted for Russian system.
Smaller republics supplied RSFSR. Local industry here was geared towards supplying military. Once the union fell it folded because our region was unable to support such a heavy industry.
Millitary received its orders from Moscow, Republics had little say in those affairs.
Nolan Rogers
Russian nationalism was suppressed and the leadership included many non-Russians. Russia itself was also net drained by the Union to subsidize the shittiest parts like western Ukraine. I'd say no.
Sebastian Ward
>Was Russian culture enforced upon non-Russians?
Only in East Germany, elsewhere Soviet History was pushed which was heavy on Russian stuff (obviously) but aside from that most education and cultural affairs remained under the control of the subject republics and wasn't micromanaged from Moscow.
Benjamin Allen
East Germany wasn't a part of the USSR. Within the USSR russification was heavy as fuck.