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What is with the Soviet Union and the Soviet Blocks support for the creation of Israel? (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Did they really believe Israel would be socialist?

Why was there an ideological change away from Lenin's anti-zionist position?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not an expert on the issue but just from applying common sense I'd imagine that coming out of the wake of WW2 and what the Nazis did to the jews that it just sounded like the morally right thing to do at the time. Similarly, it also seemed morally right at the time when Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev gave territorial concessions to Ukraine after the legitimate oppression they faced under the Russian Empire and couldn't of known what a mistake that would eventually be.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think Ukraine being given concessions was the problem, and I don't think the existence of Ukraine is a problem either. The problem is that the country is currently being used as a fleshlight battering ram against the Global South.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I mean yeah obviously if Ukraine didn't go down it's fascist path then yes the concessions wouldn't have ever been an issue in themselves but alas, they did.