Re:The Melancholy of Subculture Society (2019)
by thriftwy on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:55PM
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Russians did not get to keep a national flag. Russians only got their land and their souls given away to newfound nationalistic republics here and there, with no say about it.
Your comment shows the total futility of catering to ethnic minorities - they would eat through any amount of privilege and then backstab at the first opportunity. This was unexpected to USSR and Yugoslavia alike.
The success of China as an authoritarian state relies on not doing that mistake.
Their propaganda insisted it didn't exist. They literally moved communities across Asia to eradicate it. They insisted they were harmonious, unlike the divided US (sound like a familiar story?). There's a book by Daniel Patrick Moynahan which predicted the breakdown when the USSR disappeared.
> with right of secession
:D
> USSR did some rebordering but it never prevented any of countries from having a language, a government
:D They never prevented them from having a government that submitted to Moscow. Ask Hungary and Czechoslovakia, not to mention Tito, about what happens otherwise.
> they got to keep a national flag
wow!