An Open Discussion on Russian Identity

[Leonardo17]

My family has lived in the CCCP from 1945 to 1962. My extended family is still living on this former CCCP territory now, being EU citizens now.
At best your fairy tale fits to major population centers. Everybody else, everywhere else was just struggling for survival.

 
The US President Biden has some very interesting explanation on Stalinian agricultural policies to break the spirit of Ukrainian resistance during the Holodomor.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-draws-p...46982.html
 

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The Excess Mortality under the regime of Stalin is estimated to be between 6 and 9 million people. The Figure under Mao-tse-Tug in China is estimated to be at least 5 time that number. And the Red Terror issued by Lenin is said to have resulted in 6 million deaths throughout what was the Russian Empire.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/vladimir-lenin.asp
 
But I agree with this Elena Kotchukenko too. Once it was created, this “Communist block” was completely anti-fascist. Their difference I would say lay in the fact that they were a more rational actor. They were going after this ideal of “historical dialectic” that included a process of equality and freedom. But a lot of things went wrong since the very beginning, so they failed.

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1) All I am saying is that these two things are different. No one could coexist with Imperial Japan. The CCCP existed some 80 years, we had a border with them in the East, and a border with their satellite state in the West. Nothing bad happened. I least they didn’t invade us (I mean my country + they even helped us in our war of independence).

2) And after they were gone they weren’t hated by everyone. Only very nationalistic Spaniard love Franco today. There is no one who commemorates people like Augusto Pinochet in Chile today. Only people with psychic issues love fascist dictators. That is not the case for communists. Communists did get it wrong too. But there was still that tiny little part they did manage to get it right and that makes the entire difference. (or that’s how I see it)