I've heard it claimed that the reason the Bolsheviks were so bloodthirsty and violent towards the Russian people is because it's leadership was largely comprised of non-Russian minorities whom the Tsars had persecuted (Jews, Georgians etc) Therefore there was a strong lust for ethnic revenge among the Bolsheviks.
How true is this?
You spend too much time on /pol/
I genuinely don't spend any time on /pol/.
Obviously that's not sustainable on a large scale, so I strongly doubt that's what kept Bolshevism going for so long
Usually it's true that socialism festers in places where people are feeling oppressed, foreign and estranged, but I've seen no proof of this being the case in the Russian Empire mostly because I don't give a shit enough to find out. Foreign populations seemed more prone to embrace their own nationalism as far as I know.
well its not true. a simple look at a wikipedia page shows they were mostly ethnic russians. some ideologies were imported by foreigners but thats about it.
This isn't some controversial conspiracy theory, you know. Some non-Russians were oppressed during the Empire and when Bolsheviks took over they saw this as a chance to liberate themselves and also seek revenge. Nothing really surprising here.
Initially Soviet policies vilified "Great-Russian nationalism" and sought to control eliminate it.
What could be discussed is the extent of this process.
Do you have any proof that subjects of the Russian Empire actually embraced communism on a large scale? Don't forget that they were still religious and had little contact with the silly ideas of Europeans.
did Stalin give any benefits to Georgians while in power? from what I know he fucked everyone in the ass
Tsar was a G*rman to begin with
It was true to some extent in the 1920s and 30s. Russian cultural elites were eliminated, the Russian Imperial legacy was openly condemned, many republics switched from Cyrillic to Latin alphabet and local cultural identities languages were encourages....
Stalin gradually reversed some of these policies not because he loved Russians or because he was a "nationalist" as some people would say, but simply because it was more pragmatic to have Russians as the hegemonic group because they were the most numerous and widespread in the USSR.
So everything was eventually Russified again beginning with the late 1930s, many nationalities started being oppressed again and during and immediately after WWII and their lands colonized with Russians, the Internationale was replaced as the USSR national anthem with a more pro-Russian one...
If the initial anti-Russian policies continued this might have would eventually cause too much resentment among Russians and an eventual backlash. The other nationalities might also feel a bit too comfortable and try to assert too much influence and even try to break free.
In some ways this was the opposite of what happened in Yugoslavia.
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>It was true to some extent in the 1920s and 30s
I should have specified as this is what I meant by referring to the 'Bolsheviks' as opposed to the 'Communists' in general.
t. Putinbot Russian troll in denial over his own privilege
>unnironicaly quoting SS officer and 2 Jews
The Judeo-Aryans (Trotsky, Beria) were trying to clean the place up of its Mongoloid-Slavic influences but the Judeo-Atheists (Stalin, Churchill) wouldnt allow it.
Just look at this map and tell me its a coincidence that after Stalin took over the USSR and Churchill defeated Nazi Germany almost ALL the Jews were gone from the Aryan nations but still existed in the Atheist nations.
Yeah but he represented the Russian people wholeheartedly.
Dafuck are you mumbling about, dumbass? for you colossal retard
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Are you having a psychotic breakdown?
I have never heard of any republics switching from Cyrillic to Latin. Care to provide sauccce?
>tips hatred for odin
like by shilling for Huns
The above quote is entirely fictional. Its origin traces back to "PhD historian Dr." David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, who attempted to make capital out of Solzhenitsyn’s work by publishing a book in 2013 titled "The Secret Behind Communism". His book introduction contains the above quote which he attributes to Solzhenitsyn on the occasion of a meeting he had with the Nobel laureate in 2002. Of course, we ought to take the good man at his good word and just believe him, as no other proof is offered. Hmm.....
Thank you for debunking this absurd meme, kind Sir!
LOL. Some stormtards actually believe it is perfectly possible that a couple million Jews killed tens of millions of Christians but that it is a wild absurdity to suggest that sixty million Germans killed a few million Jews.
So it is fictional because one of it's promoters was in the Klan 30+ years ago for a single year?
God i love how honest you people are with the "former kkk" bullshit when the man in question is 60 and did it in his 20's for a single year
People deny the death toll of 6 mil because only 7.5 million Jews lived in Europe during that time.
Also generally the main issue with gas chamber theory is the fact that many surivors lived for months in death camps with one man claiming to survive 3 years.
I spent a good 20 minutes trying to find the source of that quote and didn't find shit. I hope you're right.
Some of the death camps were hybrid death/labor camps. Auschwitz had a major industrial complex next to it where prisoners were used for slave labor. People who were not fit for work were killed immediately. Others worked.
Him leaving the Klan organization doesn't mean he changed his mind about anything, it just means he thought being in the Klan wouldn't serve his interests.