https://twitter.com/VottoPlantEmoji/status/1349262348633124865 (cw for the ableist wojacks in the linked tweet) (if you argue with me for cw that i will spit in your food)
https://twitter.com/VottoPlantEmoji/status/1349262348633124865 (cw for the ableist wojacks in the linked tweet) (if you argue with me for cw that i will spit in your food)
Political leanings of immigrants are interesting topic I would like to be examined more. Like as a Russian, it's interesting for me to see how right-wing Russian immigrants are basically everywhere.
Russian-Americans? Notoriously right-wing. Israeli jews that came from USSR or post-Soviet Russia? Their party is right-wing even by Israeli standards.
The easiest answer would be assuming that left-leaning people just staid in Russia but I don't think it's as simple as that considering all the waves of immigration after the Union's fall. Probably a hot take but I feel there was something wrong with the mentality of Soviet people.
well when it's a post-war wave of emigration it's pretty safe to assume it's the people who did warcrimes for the losing side fleeing justice. When the side that lost was a US proxy, those emigrants are gonna be nazis
I agree, but point is that Russian immigrants are not like that and they are still right-wing.
It's because the USSR wasn't especially left wing when it came to the new left political struggles that arose in the US starting in the 60s. These were fairly culturally conservative places, and the USSR fell before the era where that changed in other communist countries at all.
only hot here, decades of a dictatorship masquerading as socialism has caused endless damage to the "brand" of socialism, when it was not even close to actual socialism in the first place (the people weren't in charge). it's just sad at every point, especially when you figure out how much of that degradation of the socialist state was caused by foreign actors. there's a reason the system fell, and it's taken this long for people to realize just how horrid capitalism actually is and finally start openly admitting that they preferred the stability and equality of the previous system (even with it's massive flaws).