💯🔴 December 30, 2022 marks one hundred years since the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Attitudes towards the creation of the USSR are closely connected with our perception of the October Revolution. Here, obviously, there is no consensus in modern Russian society. In our social networks and the media, the most heated disputes, with mutual accusations between supporters and opponents of the revolution and all the events that followed it, have failed to subside. At the same time, on both sides, these events have turned into historical myths - which, in turn, are either idealised or demonised, depending on the political position one is arguing. As a result, very often and very convexly, civic positions completely determine historical assessments.
As a result, there can no longer be any question of any neutrality in assessing history. In the end, both the revolution and the Soviet Union have become only symbols for pamphlets.
In current geopolitical conditions, the centenary of the USSR ceases to be just an academic date. It makes one wonder about such things as historical predestination, writes Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-centenary-of-the-ussr/
#Norms_and_Values #USSR #History
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Attitudes towards the creation of the USSR are closely connected with our perception of the October Revolution. Here, obviously, there is no consensus in modern Russian society. In our social networks and the media, the most heated disputes, with mutual accusations between supporters and opponents of the revolution and all the events that followed it, have failed to subside. At the same time, on both sides, these events have turned into historical myths - which, in turn, are either idealised or demonised, depending on the political position one is arguing. As a result, very often and very convexly, civic positions completely determine historical assessments.
As a result, there can no longer be any question of any neutrality in assessing history. In the end, both the revolution and the Soviet Union have become only symbols for pamphlets.
In current geopolitical conditions, the centenary of the USSR ceases to be just an academic date. It makes one wonder about such things as historical predestination, writes Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-centenary-of-the-ussr/
#Norms_and_Values #USSR #History
@valdai_club
Valdai Club
The Centenary of the USSR
In current geopolitical conditions, the centenary of the USSR ceases to be just an academic date. It makes one wonder about such things as historical predestination, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Oleg Barabanov.
🗽🌏 Throughout the 20th century, American attitudes towards the Soviet Union were overwhelmingly negative.
▪️ The United States’ had an extensive experience with truly communist utopian communities in the 19th century. These ranged from the secular, communitarian experiments launched by Robert Owen in the 1820s to religious sects.
▪️ Anti-communist sentiment in the late 1910s was mostly intertwined with late 19th century anti-anarchist sentiment, as the anarchists were seen as terrorists.
▪️ In late 1940s and early 1950s America, Soviet rule was synonymous with Stalin. As Joseph McCarthy said in 1950, “Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.”
▪️ To the mid-20th century American, the Soviet Union was synonymous with communist rule – the nuances of communist vs. socialist styles of government were largely lost on the general public.
▪️ The first nuclear tests gave the Soviet Union a special resonance in the American psyche, which had for centuries been fertile ground for millenarian doomsayers warning about the Antichrist, the Book of Revelations and the end times.
It seemed that not only had the Marxist-Leninists attempted to destroy both God and individual liberty, but they could also bring about the end of the world, writes Valdai Club expert Travis Jones.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-soviet-union-in-retrospect-late-20th-century/
🔹 The article is published within the framework of Valdai experts’ discussion on the 100th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s establishment in 1922.
#Norms_and_Values #USSR #History #UnitedStates
@valdai_club
▪️ The United States’ had an extensive experience with truly communist utopian communities in the 19th century. These ranged from the secular, communitarian experiments launched by Robert Owen in the 1820s to religious sects.
▪️ Anti-communist sentiment in the late 1910s was mostly intertwined with late 19th century anti-anarchist sentiment, as the anarchists were seen as terrorists.
▪️ In late 1940s and early 1950s America, Soviet rule was synonymous with Stalin. As Joseph McCarthy said in 1950, “Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.”
▪️ To the mid-20th century American, the Soviet Union was synonymous with communist rule – the nuances of communist vs. socialist styles of government were largely lost on the general public.
▪️ The first nuclear tests gave the Soviet Union a special resonance in the American psyche, which had for centuries been fertile ground for millenarian doomsayers warning about the Antichrist, the Book of Revelations and the end times.
It seemed that not only had the Marxist-Leninists attempted to destroy both God and individual liberty, but they could also bring about the end of the world, writes Valdai Club expert Travis Jones.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-soviet-union-in-retrospect-late-20th-century/
🔹 The article is published within the framework of Valdai experts’ discussion on the 100th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s establishment in 1922.
#Norms_and_Values #USSR #History #UnitedStates
@valdai_club
Valdai Club
The Soviet Union in Retrospect: Late 20th Century America’s Favorite Villain
The Soviet Union had a special resonance in the American psyche, which had for centuries been fertile ground for millenarian doomsayers warning about the Antichrist, the Book of Revelations and the end times. It seemed that not only had the Marxist-Leninists…