Comment by gleenn
2 days ago
Screwing the other side is far easier to sell than having things be good for the average person. Some pretty gross displays of greed and hypocrisy.
2 days ago
Screwing the other side is far easier to sell than having things be good for the average person. Some pretty gross displays of greed and hypocrisy.
Sometimes it’s just ideology ploughing through as in the cases that happened in Ukraine before WWII but after Lenin died.
Do... you refer to the "korenizatsiya" [0] effort during which the Russian language/culture/tradition was heavily penalized and the local ethnic languages/cultures/traditions elevated to the official and mandatory status?
There are enough of open letters from the local Russian-descended population to the central papers that complained about such policy, and even more articles in those papers as the response that declare that yes, the Party absolutely wants to stamp out the Russian cultural influences from the national republics because otherwise there is no chance to build the socialism, so if the not quite politically correct workers would please stop complaining so much and keep in with the Party line, thank you — or else. Thankfully, until the mid-30s that "or else" was mostly sacking from the current place of work and expulsion from the Party.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korenizatsiia
... and in typical fashion of Stalin, first he substantially created this policy, and then he completely reversed it in 1938, so that Russian became mandatory to teach in all schools and the local nationals in leadership positions were purged.
"Ploughing through". I see what you did there.