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>USSR was not nationalistic It sure was. It tried to play down internal factions of course, but it used to the full such terms as Вели́кая Оте́чественная война
by ptaipale 10y ago
>USSR was not nationalistic
It sure was. It tried to play down internal factions of course, but it used to the full such terms as Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́ "Great Patriotic War" or РОДИНА "Rodina", and if you look at the propaganda posters, they look remarkably similar to those of the Nazis.
http://www.rferl.org/media/photogallery/24934238.html http://www.rferl.org/media/photogallery/24934238.html
Soviet leadership destroyed churches as the church was a competing power base. But otherwise the Stalinist system was in many ways socially conservative. Look at its attitudes towards homosexualism, or ethos of work morale.
- varjag 10y agoZeitgeist, my dear friend. It wasn't Stalin who castrated Alan Turing, and work ethos was very much prevalent in all industrialized world. Great Patriotic War and other reversals of Tzarist times (rank system in the army, the concept of motherland etc) did not appear until months into the conflict. Before 1940s you could be hard pressed to find even a mention of "Soviet state", it wasn't really on conceptual radar. After WW2 there were no celebrations of GPW. Not until 1970s when Brezhnev had to create lore for himself: V day wasn't even a holiday. Propaganda posters had more to do that both were totalitarian, socialist regimes, so there's little wonder. When my father had his 3 year tour to Afghanistan it was called "serving the internationalist duty". In my pretty average school education there was definite accent on nationalism as an awful thing. So I respectfully disagree.