Re:Anatomy of a Book Cancellation
by pjc50 on Saturday February 11, 2023 @05:09AM
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It wasn't colonialist, in that the USSR did not expand into overseas areas of nonwhite people, because by that time there weren't any left uncolonized, but it had all the other attributes of a Russian empire over the satellite republics. The liberatory aspects of it collapsed very early on in infighting. Then there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Soviet_Uni...
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Re:Anatomy of a Book Cancellation
by Turing_Machine on Saturday February 11, 2023 @12:48PM
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> It wasn't colonialist, in that the USSR did not expand into overseas areas of nonwhite people
That is a peculiar definition of "colonialist".
For instance, the ancient Romans colonized Great Britain, despite the fact that the Romans and the Britons were both "white". The Arabs colonized Spain, despite the fact that the Arabs were "non-white" (by some definitions) and the Spaniards were "white". The Mongols colonized a whole bunch of areas, of pretty much every ethnicity that exists in Eastern Europe and a large swath of Asia. And so on.