• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    This is largely nonsense. Alongside protections of national identities, a broader soviet identity was promoted. The goal of literacy campaigns was not to eliminate languages, but to better facilitate education and administration in a large, multi-national, multi-ethnic federation of socialist states.

    Kulak farming was not something “beautiful.” It was a semi-bourgeois form of farming that relied on slave-like labor. Kulaks were also loan sharks, and would contribute to the immiseration of those around them. Imagine calling the plantation system of the Statesian south “something beautiful.”

    The nationalist sympathizers were largely those that lost from having their land and capital collectivized, ie the privledged classes of prior society that created the brutal conditions that led to revolution in the first place.