Because USSR was the first to recognize zionism for what it is.
Makes sense. (By the way, I watched the video, and it's about as intellectually lightweight as you would expect).
They jumped in Daddy USA's lap to save their asses so of course they will be a shittier copy of what America is to appeal to them.
I wanna say that it's Anarcho-Bolshevik that has a post (or comment?) exactly on this. But trying to search for it I didn't find anything. I distinctly remember reading about exactly this, why they are so obsessed, and the post as I remember it seems like one A.-B. would make.
No, it was a twitter thread, not by A.-B.: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3030263?scrollToComments=true
Maybe you were thinking of this:
No. It was a twitter thread by "zei_squirrel". But I knew I had found it here, and so I assumed it was you.
Haha, well done for remembering. I thought the title of the post sounded familiar then i was like wait didn't i make a post with the same title not too long ago? Still an excellent thread by the way.
Who can say? But it's a tactic of Nazis everywhere to bring up the soviet union unprompted to prove a vague point.
Is there any merit to the idea that the USSR helped establish Israel? I’ve heard it before but wasn’t sure if it was true
From what I understand, yes. It was a fairly standard leftist position back then, and a lot of people assumed Israel would be a socialist state. Obviously this didn't last; I believe the mid-50s was when the Soviet Union started taking the (correct) anti-Israel line. But they did support Israel initially.
Voting summary on A/RES/128(II)[A]
They voted yes for the partition.
We have a post or two about it here, you could do a search for it.
Okay so my basic understanding is that Jews living in Europe wanted their own state and the only serious option being put forward was Crimea. Crimea was essential to USSR military and the biggest voices advocating for it were killed/deported. Crimea was not an option, but the majority of Jews still remained in Eastern Europe.
After living through the Holocaust, Stalin worried that Eastern Europe would remain a tinder box of ethnic nationalism and thought the best idea was moving them to another place outside the Soviet Union. Palestine made the most sense at the time because it is the area westerners wanted and it was outside Stalin sphere of influence.
Edit: Stalins number one goals from 1945 till his death was rebuilding the Soviet Union and keeping peace with the west until strength was rebuilt.
Whoever took this screenshot perfectly captured the face of concern trolling
