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Racism was of course a huge thing in the USSR, but racism against blacks was not, because there were so dew blacks that blacks were a curiosity, not an oppresse
by lonelappde 7y ago
Racism was of course a huge thing in the USSR, but racism against blacks was not, because there were so dew blacks that blacks were a curiosity, not an oppressed class.
- i_am_proteus 7y agoUSSR also used the fact of racism in the US (principally racism toward black people) as a talking point on the evils of capitalism. Simultaneously, USSR was enforcing its own brand of Russian nationalism in the outer republics. But the asymmetry in media freedom between East and West made this non-obvious as it was happening.
- twic 7y agoAn Irish friend told me the same thing about rural Ireland.