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About as fascist as any other capitalist nation. Which is to say if there was any threat to the Russian bourgeois by their working class it would be. Probably the only reason the US isn't full fascist yet is because leftism is so dead in this country that the capitalist class doesn't need to worry about such things.
I think calling every capitalist country fascist dilutes the meaning of the word; as far as I know, the state isn't completely controlled by the bourgeoisie in Russia (despite the West calling them oligarchs, they seem to have significantly less power than their imperial core counterparts), and while there are anti-LGBTQ+ laws which should obviously be condemned, I'm not aware of any mass imprisonment of minorities
I remember hearing about prisons for gay people in Russia. I’m not saying it true, by the way, just that it’s something that was making the rounds.
I'm sure a lot of liberals believe Russia has secret concentration camps and torture facilities for all kinds of people (like the US actually does)
I found it! It was Chechnya! Which is a part of Russia? It’s a republic of Russia but I don’t know what that means entirely. Anyway, they had anti-gay purges and I remember hearing about it in high school (not in class, just on the news). It’s a Wikipedia link so viewer discretion is advised, but it works for summary of what I was talking about.
it's possible that gay men were arrested (Kadyrov seems to be a bigoted scumbag), but you should be skeptical unless there's something more than a few self-proclaimed witnesses, especially when they're anonymous, e.g. in the source cited by Wikifedia for the first paragraph
Remember that the Chechens were portrayed by west as the good guys when they opposed Russia, and back then they were led by absolute scumbags compared to which Kadyrov is an angel, and even things like terrorist act in Beslan or Dubrovka theatre (imagine what would USA do if something like that happened there!) didn't shaken that.
In Poland mainstream media emanated visible schadenfreude and more open fash were saying the terrorist are cool guys, or would be if only they werent "ciapaci" (polish slur for brown people, usually used for muslims).
The USA is fascist. Do not kid yourself. Remember that the Third Reich emulated the USA and the USA absorbed the Third Reich. The USA is the torchbearer for fascism. The idea that it's not is almost entirely from a white perspective. The USA has continuously had racial ghettos, massive prison labor, criminalization of poverty and racial deviance, mass murder, fanatical Christianity, secret police, domestic surveillance, control of media, lack of democratic accountability, concentration camps, callous murder of racialized groups, constant war footing against engineered enemies, domestic and global terror projects, political prisoners, and protection of the minority bourgeoisie.
The only things the USA doesn't have right at this moment that the Third Reich had are the following: industrial mass murder, industrial mass displacement, violent purges.
It is unlikely to develop these things because they understand that the reaction to these things will be counter to their continuous hold on power.
The USA has, in essence, been fascist since beforeb it's founding, because the European colonists essentially had all the components of European fascism during the colonial era. Mass murder was made easier by stuffing hundreds of black rebels into ships and gassing them. Haiti worked their slaves to death so fast they needed to import 50k a year to keep up. The USA's relationship to the native peoples is nearly identical to what fascism showed us. We still have race science built into our culture through our media narratives and our particular use of statistics in social sciences.
Don't wait around for the USA to become fascist.
I don't disagree with what you have said (for obvious reasons), but out of curiosity - why did USA fight other fascists in that case? Imperial Japan was likely due to wanting control of Pacific region. What about the Nazis?
I'd imagine this kind of questions arise sooner or later in discussion with USians in regards to their country's behaviour and state
He follows shaun and contrapoints btw.
Isn't Shaun pretty good for the most part?
Shaun was just re-tweeting HBomber spouting pro-ukraine shit
That fucking sucks then.
AI Generated thumbnail?
How could you tell? The multiple weird star badge things all over his coat?
Stable Diffusion does not know how to generate Soviet uniforms
Nor any uniforms tbh.
I wanted to like this channel so badly. Their sophomoric modern takes cause me to question their historical accounts.
Virtually all of these YouTube history channels engage in liberal-imperialist propaganda when it comes to modern and early modern historical topics starting with the US war of independence, the French revolution, going through both world wars and the cold war, and now the Ukraine conflict. This is obvious to see, but what is not as obvious to people who may not be particularly well versed in history is that even their medieval/ancient era history videos are incredibly biased with a eurocentric and in particular for the medieval era anglo-centric view of historical events and figures.
They also have the tendency to be incredibly favorable toward certain asian cultures over others, in particular frequently adopting japanophile positions. The most insidious of these channels is K&G since unlike most of the others they do not adopt openly reactionary positions of the kind that other "history channels" do but rather they present as "leftist" and progressive (similar to Extra History) in the way that social democrats usually do. They use this pseudo-leftism to give credibility to anti-communist propaganda.
I would like to watch some YT videos that give good general and detailed history for different countries. Mostly ancient and medieval, specifically of East Asian, Central Asian, and Middle Eastern and African places. Not Eurocentric. Do you have any recommendations for any of these?
I would like that as well. I had a phase when i would watch a lot of these sorts of channels but i became disillusioned after i noticed that they all present history from more or less the same eurocentric perspective, and particularly when the topics strayed into the 19th and 20th centuries their anti-communist and pro-western and especially pro-anglo-saxon biases became very evident.
So unfortunately no, i don't have any perfect recommendations for you that are free of all eurocentric bias because most of the English language content that you find is made by people who received a western education in history and who use as their references western or western-aligned sources. This automatically leads to a specific kind of skew in the way they frame history even with the most well meaning and earnest content creators (those who are not acting as liberal propagandists but are genuinely trying to simply educate and inform).
However there are still degrees of bias, and you can usually tell which are more egregious by their production value. Those with better production value usually have corporate money behind them and tend to thus be more heavily propagandistic. So my recommendation is to be especially wary of when you see videos with fancy graphics. This doesn't mean that all of the history content you find is unwatchable, just that it should be consumed with a healthy amount of skepticism toward their perspective on history.
For instance i have found this channel to be one of the better ones out there and about as neutral as i've seen if you can get past the rather monotonous way in which they present history in their videos. And i guess this guy is ok too. For the most part ancient history is usually covered quite well (except when it comes to Sparta and Rome which are often idolized by reactionaries and used, particularly in the case of the former, to push racist narratives of "brave white Europeans" resisting the "barbaric asiatic hordes"). But the closer you get to the modern era the more your political ideology and cultural bias plays a role in how you view history.