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This will be my final post on this matter. My critics are missing the point. Of course the US was founded in conquest and its original sins were the subjugation of the indigenous peoples and the ‘peculiar institution,’ slavery. The US also gave us a positive model or two, no? The Declaration. The Bill of Rights. And so forth. There is a tension between the forces of liberty and oppression at the heart of US history. The Swiss enabled the Nazis during the war. The French committed crimes against humanity in Algeria. I’m aware of all that. No nation is perfect. Most nations have complex histories but that’s less so with regard to Russia and the Soviet Union: as Maxim Gorky used to say, Russia was a prison of peoples. There’s no tension at the heart of Russian history because there was no great liberal tradition—the tsars made sure of that. The zemstvo men never had a chance. The Bolsheviks were hardened by a history of repression—the abused became even greater abusers. Voices of moderation like Lvov were doomed to fail.
Those of you who have raised criticisms are missing the main point. The Soviet regime was an abomination. Forced collectivization of farms. Mass internal exiling of millions. Slave labor. Millions killed as enemies of the state. Millions starved (Ukraine etc). Millions press-ganged into labor camps. The exportation of this horrible model. Its spread across the world. No Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, no Mao. Terror was the order of the day in the USSR for 35 years, then slow steady rot and moral numbness.
And you brush it off with sophomoric hair splitting about other nations’ warts? Again, it’s unimaginable that we’d see a tribute to Nazi watchmaking yet the double standard applied to the USSR persists.

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