Pro-Ukraine demonstration in Berlin

  • @sexy_peachA
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    31 year ago

    I feel like many eastern Europeans are quick to brand the Soviet Union as fascistic. Mussolini and the Nazis in Germany were fascists, there are fascists all over the world, but I think that the Soviet union was “only” totalitarian. What do you think?

    • petrescatraianOP
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      @sexy_peach Soviet Union was not fascist in any way. It was communist (of course, another totalitarian regime, just as fascism, but a tad different in its stated purpose). Current Russia, instead, is. It has this wild use of nationalism, imperialism, soviet-nostalgia thing that it combined and uses it to expand its power both inside and outside. It pretty much blurred the line between actual fascism, and it’s soviet past, in order to get to this regime.

      Imo, Russia pretty much ripped itself from the rest of the world mentally and shut itself in before any serious sanction kicked in (these only impacted Russia economically). Sure, the US let itself a bit too central since the end of the Cold War, and got a bit spoiled for this. But this doesn’t help the fact that Russia could actually choose to be democratic and respect people’s freedoms, and be friendly with other nations. Let’s just hope the world comes out not so much affected after this crysis.