If you find it confusing why an ethnic Georgian can be a Russian chauvinist, I will direct you to the reasons why Hispanic guys join ICE as functional examples of how identity within an imperial power and repressive apparatus often express themselves

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The Whites were constitutionally incapable of not offending every potential ally they could have had.

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If they were willing to be democrats or not murder every minority they wouldn’t have been the White Army.

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There was a pretty brief moment in Russian history where Lenin and some Bolsheviks (e.g. Shumskyi) were promoting korenizatsiia, especially as a way to counterbalance Great Russian chauvinism, and Putin et al. view this as the one of the worst things to happen to Russia in its entire history

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This is why it's more than a little puzzling to see self-identified leftists ally themselves with Russia. The modern Russian state doesn't look to the USSR for guidance; it looks to the Tsar, who was, almost unfailingly, the most reactionary man in all of Europe

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