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In fact all communist revolutions, bar the Russian, were nationalist/liberation revolutions or at least started like that. Then they became oppressive regimes (
by mmarq 5y ago
In fact all communist revolutions, bar the Russian, were nationalist/liberation revolutions or at least started like that. Then they became oppressive regimes (and that was the point since the beginning, maybe).
- adrian_b 5y agoI hope that you do not count what happened in most Eastern European countries as communist or liberation revolutions. There the communists were installed to power by the invading Russian army, even if false revolutionary and liberation histories were made up after the facts. The few places where there were indeed communists fighting for liberation, i.e. Tito in Yugoslavia or Enver Hoxha in Albania, so they had some legitimacy, were precisely the places which later escaped from being under strict Russian control. For Yugoslavia and Albania, what you say seems to apply.
- mmarq 5y agoWhat happened in Eastern Europe was Russian imperialism. I was referring to Cuba, Vietnam, several African communist regimes, etc…