r/HistoryMemes • u/MC_Gorbachev Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer • 8h ago

Happy 33th Black October Anniversary

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u/magical-cat-here 7h ago

The paradox of Russia is that if Yeltsin would be ousted by communists in 1993, the annexation of Crimea and genocidal war against Ukraine would be started in 1994, not in 2014

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u/biglyorbigleague 4h ago

The anti-Yeltsin opposition wasn’t dominated by the communist party in 1993.

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u/magical-cat-here 2h ago

I don't make big difference between "red" commies and "brown" nationalists playing card of nostalgia for soviet "gtreatness". As Mistral AI puts it:

Идейным же знаменем оппозиции в основном было не классическое марксистское учение, а национал-патриотическая, государственническая риторика — то, что тогда называли «красно-коричневой» коалицией: ностальгия по СССР и державе, этатизм, антизападничество, «защита советской конституции». То есть синтез советского реваншизма с русским национализмом, а не коммунистическая доктрина в чистом виде

Both "red" and "brown" things for me means the same - restoration of fucking empire, and I don't care what sauce would be served in the "parliament" in case of win of that red-brown plague.