The Soviet Union did perpetuate the Settler-Colonial legacy of the state it was succeeding too. Consciousness for Settler-Colonialism and trying to explicitly avoid it and dismantle it wasn't exactly mainstream in European academic societies at the time - even among socialists in the USSR. At that point, trying to sway Israel into the socialist bloc was far more pressing to the Soviets.
The Soviet Union did perpetuate the Settler-Colonial legacy of the state it was succeeding too. Consciousness for Settler-Colonialism and trying to explicitly avoid it and dismantle it wasn't exactly mainstream in European academic societies at the time - even among socialists in the USSR. At that point, trying to sway Israel into the socialist bloc was far more pressing to the Soviets.