I have been wondering how the USSR compared to western nations on issues related to identity and oppression. I can't seem to find any sources that don't scream anti-communist propaganda though and was wondering if anyone could help point the way?

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I heard they did some not very cool things with people from siberia.

    • historiclyOfficial [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Did you ask those people who were sent to Siberia what their opinion on the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" was? Cause... then it might change your perspective on whether or not it was justified!

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Hahah, no, not those people. I read that siberian indigineous people were kinda "forced to change their lifestyle" at best.

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          4 years ago

          Off the top of my head, I am 99% sure that it was research funded by the NED to help create some false equivalence between te settler genocidal state of the US and USSR. I do remember in 2017, I got into a dumb argument with someone on twitter on exactly this.

          But, I think those tweets have been wiped, so I am not sure how to find that information for you.

    • Camboozie [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Thanks for the help! I was having trouble specifying my search terms and this brought up some sources to check out

    • gammison [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      They did, Siberian indigenous peoples did suffer, particularly on the Bering Strait border region. Peoples who had ties to both sides of the strait got fucked by both governments.

      There's a good recent book on this and the history of the strait in general: https://www.amazon.com/Floating-Coast-Environmental-History-Bering/dp/0393635163, and the author went on The Dig about it, here, and Sean's Russia Blog here.

      On more insular indigenous people, there's also some very recent work on the Kazakh famine, see an interview about it here

      There's also this recent work on race in Imperial Russia and how it continued/changed during Soviet Union.