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Re:Russian empire aerospace refugees (2021) by tokai on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @04:35AM (#37144291)
Another great example of a physicists being atrocious at doing humane scholarship. Between praising tsarists Russia and having his favorite translation of the futurist manifesto published on his blog, this is just straight fascism on the front page of HN.
Re:Russian empire aerospace refugees (2021) by OfSanguineFire on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @06:46AM (#37145158)
> Between praising tsarists Russia

The linked article suggests that Russia might have kept its educated people if the Bolsheviks hadn't taken power and driven all those people into emigration. Few people would dispute that, and it is important to note that the Bolsheviks did not overthrow the tsar: he was already gone by the October Revolution, having been deposed in the February Revolution earlier in the year.

So, it’s not about praising the tsar. If Bolsheviks specifically hadn’t screwed everything up, Russia may well have remained on the same path of development under the tsar-free regime brought in during February 1917.

> having his favorite translation of the futurist manifesto

In spite of Futurism's undeniable links to early Italian Fascism, I suspect that, overall, the Futurist Manifesto is discussed as an important piece of literary history and an interesting text by more people who are broadly on the left, than people who literally believe in fascism. After all, Futurism was an example of Modernism in the arts, but much fascism today often makes it a point to rejects Modernism.

The linked site is well known for being quite on the right, and arguably too unhinged to deserve HN links. But there is so much better evidence you could have pointed to for that, than your two assertions I quoted here.