1.Twitter is a poor medium, so I’ll summarize some random points on USSR, WWII, and Victory Day. @apurposefulwife
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4a. No serious historian subscribes to the totalitarian model of meek oppressed/powerful oppressors without top/down/bottom/up interaction.
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4b. Many common people benefitted from early USSR’s policies: from massive literacy increase to decrease in childhood mortality/diseases.
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4c.There were plenty of homegrown, willing, and able Communists in *every* Soviet republic.
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5a.Political-prisoner deaths in the USSR are nowhere near "dozens of millions" (see Getty/Naumov’s Road to Terror).
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5b.If you count non-political deaths from “harsh conditions,” then you can make the same argument about poverty + disease under capitalism.
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5c. And I'm not even including the ~10-30 million deaths abroad from "capitalist" Washington's wars.
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6a. At the beginning of WWII, *some* towns in Ukrainian SSR indeed welcomed the Germans. This attitude quickly changed. (See. K. Berkhoff)
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6b. USSR lost ~26 mil in WWII after being invaded. The war touched every family. On Victory Day, we unapologetically honor our ancestors.
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6c.My father's very Slavic grandparents lived in occupation; his father participated in the Murmansk Run; my other grandfather built roads.
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6d.My family was part of the war effort. We lost some family in the 1930s purges too. And YOU are going to tell US how to view OUR history?
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But property rights are the foundation for Western Civilization.
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No they aren't. Property rights are an Anglo construction. The West is built on Aristocratic republicanism and heroic individualism.
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The Russians have a long history of ethno-communalism. Attempting to universalize it led to communism. See: Emmanuel Todd.
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Disgusting results that the West should abhor.
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All during the Cold War, Jews were talking like this. Soviet Union is so great, better than America.
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"Stalinist architecture" is used as a pejorative, even tho the favored style at the time (30s-50s) was an elegant Neoclassicism
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