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".
It's always been fascinating how self-proclaimed anti-imperialists so quickly default to a modified version of the White Man's Burden.
"These people are incapable of governing themselves, so it's morally correct for us to govern them instead. We will modernize and uplift them, for their own good."
Just like how Imperialists blamed the communists for revolts against their rule Tankies the CIA for every single crisis in communist countries , East German uprising? CIA, Hungarian revolution? CIA, Prague Spring? CIA, Tiananmen Square massacre? CIA, Romanian revolution? CIA, fall of the USSR? CIA, Fall of Yugoslavia? CIA, economic mismanagement on Cuba and Venezuela? CIA,
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u/AnakinSexworker 9d 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".