> Of course it's about nationalism. Said ideological subversion is there to serve the needs of the USSR. The ideology did not exist to serve the needs of the U

> Of course it's about nationalism. Said ideological subversion is there to serve the needs of the USSR. The ideology did not exist to serve the needs of the USSR; the USSR existed to serve the needs of the ideology. You can tell because Marxism was a ideological current for decades before the USSR, and because it regrettably persists decades after the fall of the USSR. The USSR exerted a centralized dominance over that ideology--as early as the Spanish Civil War, Soviet-backed groups were purging rival leftist factions on the Republican side. To a less brutal degree, the US has exerted a similar centralized dominance over the liberal democracies of the world.