I hate how clearly I can hear it.

All the different levels of absurdity going on here aside…

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Rent

I mean I guess it’s just shorthand to use the terms interchangeably anymore. It’s essentially just homeowners being pushed into serving rentiers.

For whatever reason this kind of campaign tactic had zero effective counter amongst the general electorate. This messaging won. Refuting it was left to the internet forums.

Having never heard of him before, I looked him up.

He is 20 and has been a content creator for 8+ years. This is perhaps some of his first non-teenaged content, then. So I am not going to judge the monetized content of children too harshly.

Set Your DVR

Damn they know their viewerbase well.

Those Achaemanids just made it up!

Well, it’s Tibet, one of the many places British got their imperialism in everyones’ anti-imperial nationalist movements.

went as far as to call Khrustchev revisionist.

I mean Khrushchev explicitly announced the USSR was abandoning the concept of ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’. Lenin’s big thing was establishing the concept of the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ with the USSR. So all political criticisms aside, let’s be real: it’s not the most audacious thing for Khrushchev to be called.

Lenin actually wrote a fair bit about it and it contains some of the most pronounced criticism expressed towards ‘the Georgian’. He felt the chauvinism of ‘Great’ Russia needed to be countered specifically by deferring to indigenous minorities across the former Russian Empire.

One of the things Lenin grappled with the most was the direct inheritance of the backwards and corrupt institutions of the Russian Empire. And probably more than that he did not want Stalin to inherit power, especially for his excessive chauvinism.

The USSR did stop the Russification of imperial subjects as under the Tsar in favor of a new Soviet identity during the revolution and civil war. The nationalism of SSRs is something Lenin actually favored. “Korenizatsiia” it was called.

When Stalin took power after Lenin’s death, the USSR then really made the effort to Russify that Soviet identity. This especially took off in the 30s.

So like, they’re not wrong, even if it’s just glazing some nuance that’s probably not super helpful. And you can fault Stalin, easy, but nonetheless that dynamic of establishing a Soviet identity that wasn’t inherently ethnically Russian is something that did come out of the (early) USSR.