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>>9325542
>>9325555
There is a lot of truth in the claim that the Soviet Union, after a certain point, "wasn't real communism". It just doesn't mean what apologists think it does. The communist movement was founded as a internationalist, revolutionary political movement, but along the way it became just a vessel for Russian nationalism and imperial politics. Traces of internationalism lasted until the 60s, but they were being gradually reduced from the time Trotsky was removed from the Politburo until Khruschev was substituted by Brezhnev.

The irony is that a lot of people who call themselves "anti-communists" only hate this second form of communism, communism as the aesthetics of Russian nationalism and imperialism in the 20th century. They don't have anything bad to say about international revolutionary communism. They write books about the Great Purge, and ignore dekulakization, they talk about Trotsky as if he was a progressive humanist, not some bloodthirsty petty tyrant who would gladly enslave the Russian working class through militarized labour.

Not coincidentally, a lot of these "anti-communists" are Jews and today they are neocons. They didn't change at all. They just came from a position where they wanted the Red Army and the Russian people to be the cannon fodder in the world revolution that would establish a global government under their control to a situation where they see the U.S. Army and the American people in that role instead.