@kibrika @EugeneMcParland I really wish the USSR had more respect for the identities of the countries inside it, instead of ostensibly believing (making the excuse) that these identities would get in the way of working class solidarity.

Of course they didn't believe that. They didn't believe anything. They were just imperialists. They did not treat the workers of Ukraine — or much of Eastern Europe, for that matter — fairly, even compared to how poorly they often treated their own.

The good things they did do need to be extracted out of all the bad as lessons, like any other country.