376
fairytale ending
(quokk.au)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2025
376 points (100.0% liked)
History Memes
3396 readers
171 users here now
A place to share history memes!
Rules:
-
No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, assorted bigotry, etc.
-
No fascism, atrocity denial or apologia, etc.
-
Tag NSFW pics as NSFW.
-
Follow all Lemmy.world rules.
Banner courtesy of @setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Executing the royal family that has oppressed your country for 3 centuries, so that the reactionary proto fascists (whites) don't have another rallying point during the civil war is an understandable decision
It's a tragedy that it was a reasonable choice, but a reasonable choice it was
Exactly, requiring perfection at every step forward only has the effect of you standing still.
("Bending the stick without breaking it" sums it up quite nicely IMO, not forgetting your principles, but without clinging to a dogma and allowing yourself to be pragmatic when the situation requires it, especially when it's a matter of survival)
You had me at royal family
and then immediately turn into imperialistic dictatorship and start opressing your and nearby countries themselves
I don't think you know what any of those words mean in the context of political economy. None of them apply to the early USSR...
Lenin was a right wing communist of sorts, believing in national self determination (which is the reason why Ukraine exists today at all) + the USSR was created as an equal union of peoples (reflected in it's bicameral legislature) with respect and promotion of local culture and languages. (Look up Korenizatsiia, which was later unfortunately replaced with Russian chauvinism when Stalin was fully at the helm)
Many local communist parties asked for a centralised government similar to France, but the more Russian central government worried a lot about how that would be misinterpreted in terms of their image.
all these facts you describe don't make any sense considering no freedom of speech, Red Terror, and still disgusting attitude to the provinces (look up first Holodomor 1921-23)