• Parzivus [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    I’m pretty sure Lenin’s reasoning for creating independent Soviet republics wasn’t exclusively for the sake of the public image of the USSR.

    It is tempting to say, with hindsight, that the existence of the Baltic states and Ukraine was a mistake, but it’s not a straight line from 1918 to 2022, and deciding “Lenin was wrong and I’m right” is quite the claim