> You keep misrepresenting repressions against anti-communists as colonization.
No, you, as the Soviet authorities did, keep misrepresenting colonial policies of forced labour, mass deportation, forced internment, forced language policies, and many others, specifically devised to pursue, establish and maintain control and exploitation of people and of resources, the very definition of colonialism, as "repressions against anti-communists".
That's what you've been doing for this whole thread: claiming that these things did not happen, and when it was pointed out that they did, in fact, happen, backpedalled to insist they can't have been colonial policies because Soviet authorities called them by some other names. Western colonial powers called them by other names, too, that doesn't stop us from labeling them as colonial policies.
I'm going to stop this poor-taste "debate" here. I understand your need to defend your political views and I take no issue with that, it happens at both ends of the spectrum. Western liberalism has considerable difficulty reconciling its current human rights policy with its past human rights record, too.
But we'll keep going in circles here: you're going to ask me for another instance of colonial policy from the Soviet Union, I'm going to point one out, you're going to say oh, but that wasn't a colonial policy of the government in Moscow, that was mass repression against anti-communists (as if there isn't a whole history of mass repression against anti-government and/or pro-independence groups in Western colonies), or part of the five-year plan to improve agricultural output (as if there isn't a whole history of, at the very least, deliberate withholding of resources against colonial population, if not outright use of hunger as an instrument of repression), or part of the Soviet educational policy or some other buzzword that Soviet press used.
Sure, Soviet practices were not identical to Western practices, they came from a completely different political tradition and were thoroughly informed by the Russian Empire's politically disastrous and much harsher colonial tradition. Colonialism, like all government policies, changed with time and varied with the government that pursued it. Nothing new here.
But all colonial governments developed their own euphemisms for their practices, and I'm all too familiar with the Soviet array, studying it was literally part of my work at one point. I really don't need a refresher on it.
"(as if there isn't a whole history of mass repression against anti-government and/or pro-independence groups in Western colonies)"
Anything on the scale of what they have done in their colonies?
"part of the five-year plan to improve agricultural output (as if there isn't a whole history of, at the very least, deliberate withholding of resources against colonial population, if not outright use of hunger as an instrument of repression)"
You are missing the point again -- unlike the USSR, western colonial powers didn't do that to their own people.
> You keep misrepresenting repressions against anti-communists as colonization.
No, you, as the Soviet authorities did, keep misrepresenting colonial policies of forced labour, mass deportation, forced internment, forced language policies, and many others, specifically devised to pursue, establish and maintain control and exploitation of people and of resources, the very definition of colonialism, as "repressions against anti-communists".
That's what you've been doing for this whole thread: claiming that these things did not happen, and when it was pointed out that they did, in fact, happen, backpedalled to insist they can't have been colonial policies because Soviet authorities called them by some other names. Western colonial powers called them by other names, too, that doesn't stop us from labeling them as colonial policies.
I'm going to stop this poor-taste "debate" here. I understand your need to defend your political views and I take no issue with that, it happens at both ends of the spectrum. Western liberalism has considerable difficulty reconciling its current human rights policy with its past human rights record, too.
But we'll keep going in circles here: you're going to ask me for another instance of colonial policy from the Soviet Union, I'm going to point one out, you're going to say oh, but that wasn't a colonial policy of the government in Moscow, that was mass repression against anti-communists (as if there isn't a whole history of mass repression against anti-government and/or pro-independence groups in Western colonies), or part of the five-year plan to improve agricultural output (as if there isn't a whole history of, at the very least, deliberate withholding of resources against colonial population, if not outright use of hunger as an instrument of repression), or part of the Soviet educational policy or some other buzzword that Soviet press used.
Sure, Soviet practices were not identical to Western practices, they came from a completely different political tradition and were thoroughly informed by the Russian Empire's politically disastrous and much harsher colonial tradition. Colonialism, like all government policies, changed with time and varied with the government that pursued it. Nothing new here.
But all colonial governments developed their own euphemisms for their practices, and I'm all too familiar with the Soviet array, studying it was literally part of my work at one point. I really don't need a refresher on it.
"(as if there isn't a whole history of mass repression against anti-government and/or pro-independence groups in Western colonies)"
Anything on the scale of what they have done in their colonies?
"part of the five-year plan to improve agricultural output (as if there isn't a whole history of, at the very least, deliberate withholding of resources against colonial population, if not outright use of hunger as an instrument of repression)"
You are missing the point again -- unlike the USSR, western colonial powers didn't do that to their own people.
"or part of the Soviet educational policy"
I have already gave you the link to korenization.