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Posted: 29 Dec 2022

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The Soviet Union was a massive land empire whose gobbled-up colonies contained over one hundred different ethnic groups. Their constitution defined citizens by ethnic-national identities -- Armenian, Ukrainian, even the “nation” of the Jews. After Lenin, Soviet leaders understood that they had to manage a potential “nationalities” problem; especially in places like Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which had already tasted autonomy. Police-state oppression secured the peace, and a forced commitment to Marxist ideology brought the many together in thought and identity.

Such collective unity was enhanced and further defined by a common ideological enemy” Western capitalism and its champion, the United States. Throughout the Soveit Union, Americans served as an example of all that the Soviets were not. . . . These were Cold War tropes, coins and realm that could be passed out whenever needed. They are the bigots, not us. They are empty and unhappy. We march for progress and more egalitarian society. To question such dogma was, since Stalin’s show trials in 1936, potentially traitorous. And so, the same song was sung over and over again. ` Page 250

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