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Are there pockets of Russia where soviet culture and marxist thought remain strong? (hexbear.net)

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Like, this place, Ulyanovsk, birthplace of Lenin, only Ruissian UNESCO city of literature…it’s got to be fucking sick, right?

Russia has a reputation of being full of reactionaries these days but are there still places where socialist culture remains?

Pardon me for asking such a dumb question, Russia is a massive country, so the answer is probably yes. It’s just that those of us behind the burger curtain don’t really get to learn much about massive fucking nations such as Russia, China, or India. In school we are taught that every culture east of Leipzig or South Africa is a homogenous blob. ‘Once you’ve seen Moscow, you’ve already seen Cambodia’, was the MO in high school

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Mostly industrial and rural areas. Moscow is overwhelmingly anticommunist, St. Petersburg and North Caucasus aren't much better, but other places are overall full of pro-Soviet people, but this nostalgy is completely unorganized. Still, it is noticeable that the authorities know about it and are increasingly trying to appeal to it. It also limits the degree of anticommunism the authorities can afford to do without significant protests.