How do you respond to this? It’s not something I’ve done a lot of research into, but it seems like one of the few critiques where you just say “critical support for the USSR, we need to learn from the past mistakes the soviets made and do better the next time around.”

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If the second one, why anarchist suddenly concerned with ethnic purity?

Sorry to sound defensive of liberalism, but there's a difference between caring about ethnic purity and not wanting forced relocations of ethnic groups.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Because workers arriving to build irrigation projects are not exactly "forced relocation". And again, forced relocations were very much bad and a mistake, but they weren't russians being relocated.

Now some of these projects by themselves, were ill considered and not relied on local expertise, and just vibe-did stuff (especially agriculture during corn-man-khrush ), but i find it hard to believe sinister motive around them

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago

Fair about Russians specifically which is the subject of the thread. You already gave the disclaimer about Tartars, so you're good, I was just spelling it out explicitly.

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

yeah that seems like a very bad faith interpretation to me