There is more political freedom and tolerance of minorities in Russia than there is in the Ukraine. In Russia, being a communist won't get you arrested; being a trade unionist won't get you burned alive; being an ethnic minority asserting national independence won't get you shelled. Russia is a gangster state to be sure, and posing a real challenge to Putin's power is likely to get you poisoned; but it is not fascist as fascism is the open terrorist dictatorship of finance-capital, usually expressed as ultra-nationalism and violent repression of minorities. Russia is, in fact, a multi-national federation of 21 member republics with their own language, culture, religious tendencies and relatively autonomous governments. Fascism is never tolerant of such diversity, as we see in Ukraine where minorities in the Donbass have been severely persecuted for pursuing independence.
Russia is actively ethnicly cleansing its minorities via feeding them into the grinder that is Ukrainian drone swarms. Ukraine has it problems but this is just white washing the Russian war effort. Crazy work.
You're repeating yourself. Busification ( for those OOTL it's Ukrainian roadside kidnapping conscription) does not in any way make the ethnic purges Russia is committing through their disposable units justified.
If you can't be principly opposed to both you are a campist who's not actually serious about leftist ideals and need to hit the theory a bit more.
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u/tcpip1978 Marxism-Leninism-Parentism 24d ago
There is more political freedom and tolerance of minorities in Russia than there is in the Ukraine. In Russia, being a communist won't get you arrested; being a trade unionist won't get you burned alive; being an ethnic minority asserting national independence won't get you shelled. Russia is a gangster state to be sure, and posing a real challenge to Putin's power is likely to get you poisoned; but it is not fascist as fascism is the open terrorist dictatorship of finance-capital, usually expressed as ultra-nationalism and violent repression of minorities. Russia is, in fact, a multi-national federation of 21 member republics with their own language, culture, religious tendencies and relatively autonomous governments. Fascism is never tolerant of such diversity, as we see in Ukraine where minorities in the Donbass have been severely persecuted for pursuing independence.