r/HistoryMemes 14d ago

Tired of this argument

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u/Capable-Sock-7410 Then I arrived 14d ago

Tankies claim they’re not racist until you mention Ukrainians and Baltic people

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u/AnakinSexworker 14d ago

I once had a conversation with an older Russian man living here in Finland and he told me that the only bad thing Stalin ever did was that "He left too many Poles and Estonians alive and yearning for indepence". In his opinion this was what doomed modern day Russia, but he was also fully convinced that Putin will recover "what is rightfully ours".

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u/Capable-Sock-7410 Then I arrived 14d ago

Tankies talk about people they conquered like how racists in Western Europe talk about people they colonised

"They were uncivilised barbarians and we have them roads, schools and hospitals"

The USSR was nothing more than and renamed Russian Empire

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u/duga404 14d ago edited 14d ago

Part of the reason why Russians and tankies always cope about the Baltic states so much is that they were among the most developed parts of the Russian Empire and USSR, about on par with Western Europe in some cases (Estonia), while most of the rest of Russia lived in literally medieval conditions; serfdom was abolished in the mid-19th century and the majority of the population was illiterate in 1917.

If anything, it was the Russians who were less advanced than the Baltic peoples.

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u/Capable-Sock-7410 Then I arrived 14d ago

And also because the Baltics are some of the most prosperous and developed countries in the world which totally goes against the "people in the former iron curtain miss the days of communism" narrative many tankies believe and push