The USSR did not meet the definition of colonialism. Collectivization of agriculture in the USSR resulted in dramatic improvements in crop yields, the problem was the weather disasters in the 1930s and the bourgeois kulak reaction, burning the crops and killing the livestock. Azerbeijan was not forced into labor, but their resources were used by the USSR as a part of the soviet ecomomy and their energy independence. Testing atomic bombs is not colonialism either.
The fight between Marxists and anti-soviet “leftists” is not colonialism, nor was it simply due to differences in opinion, but instead because people were organizing against socialism in a way easily taken advantage of by western forces.
It isn’t merely “soviet propaganda,” it’s an honest description of history from a Marxist, proletarian perspective.
The USSR did not meet the definition of colonialism. Collectivization of agriculture in the USSR resulted in dramatic improvements in crop yields, the problem was the weather disasters in the 1930s and the bourgeois kulak reaction, burning the crops and killing the livestock. Azerbeijan was not forced into labor, but their resources were used by the USSR as a part of the soviet ecomomy and their energy independence. Testing atomic bombs is not colonialism either.
The fight between Marxists and anti-soviet “leftists” is not colonialism, nor was it simply due to differences in opinion, but instead because people were organizing against socialism in a way easily taken advantage of by western forces.
It isn’t merely “soviet propaganda,” it’s an honest description of history from a Marxist, proletarian perspective.