How do you respond to this? It’s not something I’ve done a lot of research into, but it seems like one of the few critiques where you just say “critical support for the USSR, we need to learn from the past mistakes the soviets made and do better the next time around.”
learning second language type stuff or shuffling people (*as in workers, not deportations, which weren’t russian people being moved around) around ussr itself? If the second one, why anarchist suddenly concerned with ethnic purity? If the first one, what second language should people in ussr learn, english?
Like don’t get me wrong, deportations inside ussr using kazakhstan as a dumping ground (crimean tartars definitely, but that was also uzbekistan i believe) and nuclear tests - that’s very much bad, but i think, on the latter, ussr did them in russian parts as well, so it’s equal sparsity of population stuff, not some deliberate policy.
Sorry to sound defensive of liberalism, but there’s a difference between caring about ethnic purity and not wanting forced relocations of ethnic groups.
Because workers arriving to build irrigation projects are not exactly “forced relocation”. And again, forced relocations were very much bad and a mistake, but they weren’t russians being relocated.
Now some of these projects by themselves, were ill considered and not relied on local expertise, and just vibe-did stuff (especially agriculture during
), but i find it hard to believe sinister motive around them
Fair about Russians specifically which is the subject of the thread. You already gave the disclaimer about Tartars, so you’re good, I was just spelling it out explicitly.
yeah that seems like a very bad faith interpretation to me
She’s native american, she just brought up something a friend who’s of Kazakstani heritage told her about losing their language bc of Russification.
Edit: she also said that their mom had moved to Israel after the USSR collapsed so there’s that aspect of it, too.
Genuinely asking, wouldn’t it be Kazakh heritage? Or am I wrong here?
Oh, I guess it is. Thanks for letting me know
She’s definitely not some cracker brand anarchist, I just think she’s a little earlier on in her political journey. Doesn’t like communism bc “hierarchy”