• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    Again, very ahistorical understanding. The USSR was not this comically evil Red Scare version you seem to think it was. The bourgeois farmers, the kulaks, that burned their crops and fought the red army rather than collectivizing were directly responsible for making famine worse. The Krondtadt rebellion was led by Stepan Petrichenko, who became a White Army soldier after the failure of the rebellion. What the sailors demanded in civil war would have led to the loss of the war for everyone.

    The USSR was run by the workers. For starters, kulaks were wealthy bourgeois farmers that you frame as “peasants” and paint systemic sexual abuse was weilded as punishment. The Kronstadt sailors were largely unsupported as their demands were unsustainable, and amounted to active sabotage of the war effort. Terrorists, Tsarists, and fascists were targetted, yes.

    Nobody is saying the USSR was perfect, but taking the opposite approach and believing wholeheartedly every Red Scare myth is also wrong.