I don't care about antisemitic noblemen. His book is fake, and he's lucky he wasn't killed.
Rod_Blagojevic
joined 4 years ago
The bourgeoisie cannibalised Russia. Liberals from the west insisted that Russia and the rest of the Soviet republics would be ruled by the bourgeoisie. This was the whole point of the Cold War. At huge expense to its own citizenry the west conducted a series of proxy wars and led an arms race to make it as difficult as possible for workers to control their own destiny.
As expected, false scarcity and extreme inequality followed, and to justify or explain this inequality, the bourgeoisie used from the usual ethnic and sexual minority scapegoats. With your weird understanding of history, you're obviously American, so none of this should be hard to understand. You have people dying on the streets, the government won't even raise the minimum wage, but the news about the evils of Mexicans, blacks, trans people, etc. never stops.
Now, just out of the blue, for no discernable reason, the Russian government decided it would just go ahead and conquer a large population in a land where it would have to fight an insurgency for approximately forever. Yes, this is definitely what's happening. A tankie might call this pure MSNBC brain, but there is literally nothing else you need to know in order to understand this conflict. Stay strong, and continue to be the smartest person in the room.
Stalin came with a big spoon and ate up all grain? Antisemitic landlords that only left after they provoked a mass uprising against themselves definitely aren't part of the story.
I know were all supposed to feel bad for collaborators being treated poorly in the USSR, I'm just more concerned with what my Jewish ancestors dealt with in eastern Europe.
"....human nature..."
Someone on the internet that's never even heard the phrase "historical materialism" is talking about human nature and you're laughing?
I am descending into madness. 
There's still a lot of people that came of age in the USSR. They're very interesting to talk to. Often, their experience doesn't match the American anticommunist rhetoric.