The Tsars engaged in feudal conquest westward, brutally slaughtering their way across the Urals to the Pacific and leaving behind the corpses of the conquered and the peasant conscripts whos lives were spent to take the land. Over the decades those lands would slowly be settled by migrants and exiles from the imperial heartlands. It wasn’t until the annexation of outer Manchuria that migration of Russians (as in the empires citizens not the ethnic group) really began to pick up and the opening of the trans-siberian railway “brought civilization to the wild east”. While not necessarily exactly like the u.s westward expansion, the Russian Tsardom’s expansion holds strikingly strong similarities to America.
In the late modern era, around the same time the u.s was exterminating or expelling native Americans from their homelands, the Russian Tsardom was engaged in similar circumstances with Circassia and Chechnya.
There was also similar circumstances occurring in the Kazakh steppe where the Russian imperials worked to destroy the nomadic lifestyle of the people there, causing mass starvation and revolts against the squalid conditions forced upon the indigenous population as the Trans-Aral Railway “brought civilization to the south” and Russian migrants to settle newly opened lands.
This was what the Soviet Union was forced to inherit with its creation. During its early years under Lenin and the pre-war Stalin period, considerable work was made to try and remedy wrongs made against the fraternal Soviet nations ranging from focused industrial development in their respective nations to emplacing positive discrimination laws to proletarianize the people out of their squalid living standards.
Of course in the years building up to the war and the period thereafter positive discrimination and other measures were ended in order to focus on building up for the inevitable war. This period also say rollbacks in woman’s reproductive rights, an end to the discrimination and persecution of traditionalist elements and a generally more conservative and patriotic fostered culture.
Overall to touch base with what you’re talking about, shitlibs are just absurdly myopic to the point of ignorance to the rest of history in relation to their hate for communism in addition to wanting to paper over the indiscriminate evils perpetrated by our still-existing government on the native Americans of the past and the present. Additionally we as communists have to be careful as well to not embrace the mistake of national exceptionalism as it is akin to putting horse-blinders on to focus solely on a singular point ahead of us and and thus become blinded to the wider lessons history can teach us.
GOOD post