You’re not local so you wouldn’t know. The leaders hailed dekulakization as landlord removal but it was really just about anyone who was well off through their own family’s labor too. And political opponents obviously. It was a dark time and we still mourn all the lives lost to the labor camps.
Mexico never oppressed America like this. There’s been conflicts, but the US was never forcefully occupied by Mexico.
I understand despising the Russian Empire, but Bolsheviks really were the best Europe had to offer. Estonians had the right to an education in Estonian, had political representation of their own, Estonia was industrialised more than the rest of the Soviet block as a purposeful policy of development of minority ethnicities, Estonia had better salaries and working positions (hence many Russians migrating there during Soviet times)…
What would have been of Estonia were it not for the Bolsheviks? What would have happened under the rule of Nazism? Would you be able to talk Estonian today? Would you even be alive? Finno-Ugric peoples were certainly not as demonized as Slavs by the Nazi racial theories, but still they didn’t want you to be equal to them, unlike it can be said of Soviets.
You’re not local so you wouldn’t know. The leaders hailed dekulakization as landlord removal but it was really just about anyone who was well off through their own family’s labor too. And political opponents obviously. It was a dark time and we still mourn all the lives lost to the labor camps.
Mexico never oppressed America like this. There’s been conflicts, but the US was never forcefully occupied by Mexico.
I understand despising the Russian Empire, but Bolsheviks really were the best Europe had to offer. Estonians had the right to an education in Estonian, had political representation of their own, Estonia was industrialised more than the rest of the Soviet block as a purposeful policy of development of minority ethnicities, Estonia had better salaries and working positions (hence many Russians migrating there during Soviet times)…
What would have been of Estonia were it not for the Bolsheviks? What would have happened under the rule of Nazism? Would you be able to talk Estonian today? Would you even be alive? Finno-Ugric peoples were certainly not as demonized as Slavs by the Nazi racial theories, but still they didn’t want you to be equal to them, unlike it can be said of Soviets.