There's neo Nazis in Russia as well

Russia should invade itself as well then

Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the USSR 😩😩😩

America: “…You ready to go get your chain back?”

Ukraine:

lmao this is objectively false many many famous historical black figures have traveled to the ussr and noted the lack of racism there.

and the politics of the post soviet countries - having experienced devastating poverty and reaction as a result of the unconstitutional dissolution of the ussr due to capitalist encirclement - has nothing to do w the politics of the ussr before its fall.

the CIA just declassified documents via FOIA showing that they support several far right pro-Nazi groups, including collaborating with Bandera himself, in anti-communist activities

The thing is that the countries’ governments under the Warsaw Pact and governments that aligned with the socialist movement did FAR. more to combat racism than any western nation has in their history.

How many black peoples of the 20th century regularly and repeatedly praised the USSR, the GDR, the DPRK, and a plethora of other states for providing a place where they could learn and live without the persecution they experienced in the west.

Yes there were inherent issues but they were being combatted and racism was actively acknowledged and detested by their respective governments.

A quote from Muhammad Ali

"I saw a hundred nationalities. No such thing as a Black man, or a white man, or 'you N,' or get back. People say, 'Oh, well, they just showed you the best.' You mean all of those white folks rehearsed, said: 'Muhammad Ali's coming! All the w****s, get off the streets—all the w****s, all the w****s! Muhammad Ali's coming! Everybody walk quietly and peacefully. All hundred nationalities, pretend you get along. Muhammad Ali's coming! All the policemen take your guns off—I don't want more than two of you in the whole city. Muhammad Ali's coming!' 'They just took you where they wanted to go.' I know that's a lie. I got in my car and told my driver where to go. Lying about the Russians."

"I jogged in the mornings in strange places where they hardly ever saw a Black man. I ran past two little white Russian ladies who were walking to work. They didn't look around and ask what I was doing. I can't go jogging in some streets in America in the morning in a white neighborhood. If they see a Black man coming down the street, they wonder who I'm going to jump. I love things like this that I notice. Late at night, I was running down the street, and I looked back. Again, there were two Russian ladies. They didn't even look back to see why a Black man was out here running."

I mean how many black people went to the ussr and how many people did they meet?

Sample size

Plus also I'm not saying the governments caused the racism, in fact they did much against it. But only just becoming open means there's catching up to do

yikes, bruh

peacecorps.gov/ukraine/preparing-to-volunteer/diversity-and-inclusion

“ It is not uncommon for Ukrainians to refer to African-Americans as “N-Word”. Volunteers of color may be called 'a monkey' or may see children’s games with Blackface. Being aware of the history of dehumanization for people of African descent may help inform where this comes from; it does not justify it. It will be at your discretion to determine the intent. No matter the intent, staff recognizes the impact that hearing that word may invoke hurt and anger. If you view it as unlearned something the person has never been exposed to, it may be an opportunity for you to educate that person. We are here to support your successful service, and these comments and images can be a huge distraction and obstacle to you. Know that Peace Corps staff is here to support and encourage you. Do not hesitate to remove yourself from such situations. You are not expected to be subjected to such treatment. You can also find support and understand from other African-American Peace Corps Volunteers serving in Ukraine."

We’re they not “open” when their governments were actively suppressing racism instead of supporting and integrating it?

this is not specific to Ukraine but to the whole post-soviet area, including Russia, unfortunately

I’m well aware.

yeah right

rferl.org/a/soviet-union-yosif-stalin-black-american-kremlin-virginia/27663044.html
"Like many other black Americans who came to the Soviet Union during this period, Yosif’s father said that he experienced less racism there than back home. He told Khanga that the only incident he could recall was when two white Americans hurled racial slurs at him in a Moscow barbershop and were thrown out after the barbers learned what they had said."
here's one testimony from RADIO FREE EUROPE

Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and Claude McKay all visited and testified to the lack of racism there.

About 400,000 Africans studied in the former Soviet Union between the late 1950s and 1990. The USSR was heavily invested in creating branches to third world countries.

"Why is it important to study how African Americans experienced the Soviet Union?

American race relations tend to define how race is understood around the world. When people like me go to Eastern Europe and we run into a skinhead or are told not to go out at night for our safety, people there will say, ‘Oh, that’s just xenophobia, it’s not because you’re Black.’ Or they’ll say, ‘We can’t be racist; we didn’t have slavery.’ I want to understand how Russia and Ukraine went from being a beacon for African Americans and Africans in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s to a place where if you have dark skin you can’t go out at night."
interesting short article on the 'raceless' relations of the soviet union penntoday.upenn.edu/news/african-american-raceless-soviet-union

another one
messynessychic.com/2021/02/11/the-great-african-american-escape-to-soviet-russia

Yes now this is the case, but that wasnt the case during the days of the USSR.

Nationalism has been on the rise in all post-Soviet states with the dismantling of the USSR, nationalism was used to fight against the USSR throughout its entire history, and especially in European countries nationalism practically inextricable from racism, and when it's explicitly right wing it's pretty much synonymous.

The racism in Eastern Europe is the legacy of a reactionary counterrevolution, not of the Soviet Union.

Why do you think the USSR becoming open to Western colonizing nations would do anything to fight racism??

The USSR was open in Africa, in fact it supported several African anti-colonial movements while Western countries were waging wars to keep their colonies. What would these countries have to teach the USSR about racism except how to make it worse? Which they in fact did end up doing.

The USSR and other communist countries gave scholarships to hundreds of thousands of African university students (some of them my own aunts and uncles), that was decades ago. Meanwhile in the 21st century, my mother wanted to send me and my brother to a Christian elementary school in the Netherlands and we got rejected because, in the exact words of the school director, we "don't have a Western background". And you really want to say that if the USSR was more open to the West, post-Soviet states would be less racist

they talking about f***ing nukes again

there goes my anxiety

damn, this is smart lol

Investing in the rublescion now!

Lmaoooo always coping arent u

Least obnoxious liberal

USSR had hundreds of thousands of African students