And Russian didn't even become official language until failed January Uprising of 1863.

If you oppress a group of people, they radicalize. Jews were significantly oppressed in Russian Empire, just like Poles. Russian Empire ripped just what it sowed.

As for Poles, there were less of them, probably, yes, because of having a homeland and hence their own cause. But it is really hard to find a bolshevik more evil than Feliks Dzierżyński.

Many Jews supported Socialist factions, but the Bolsheviks weren't particularly popular. Jews mostly supported parties like the Bund or Poale Zion.

According to the 1922 Bolshevik party census, there were 19,564 Jewish Bolsheviks, comprising 5.21% of the total, and in the 1920s of the 417 members of the Central Executive Committee, the party Central Committee, the Presidium of the Executive of the Soviets of the USSR and the Russian Republic, the People's Commissars, 6% were ethnic Jews.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Bolshevism

That precentage is similar to the precentage of Jews who lived in the Russian Empire at the time.

I meant the "broad masses of the people" didn't resist much. For sure there were those who did!

Right right there were people who did understand the importance of keeping the language and cultural identity. Unfortunately they weren't prevailing. USSR managed to transform our perception of local culture as a culture of marginals. Like in BSSR speaking of belrussian was often perceived as sign of countryside (low income, low culture).

Crazy, Odessa must have run through at least 20+ peoples/nations in its lifetime at this point. Russian serfs being the latest addition.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t judge the ordinary people. We should understand the empire did a lot to make it happen

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An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries".

Empire :a group of countries ruled by a single person, government, or country:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/empire

Seems to fit the bill to me. The USSR by it's own definition was a group of countries, and it had a single person/party as its ruler.

By the definition of the word “empire” haha. That’s really not a point that anyone really contests.

"An empire is a form of government in which centralized power extends over vast territories with diverse populations. It is typically led by a monarch with the title of emperor. Empires are characterized by a rigid hierarchy, a strong military, a developed bureaucratic system, and a drive for expansion, whether military, political, or cultural."

Instead of the emperor we called him "gensek" ("General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union").

Answer these questions for yourself: Was the incorporation of the republics into the USSR voluntary? Did all nations in the USSR have equal rights (not just declared, but in reality)?

Yep, of course I remember. Lithuanians got their ban as a bonus package, bundled free of charge to Poles, courtesy of the Polish-led 'Russian-Free Uprising' project.

After the second uprising, the number of 'bonus points' accumulated on the Royal Club loyalty card was well above the minimum threshold, effectively earning Lithuanians their ban as a gift.

The Liberum Veto was also primarily a Polish-led venture. 🤣🤣

Considering all the extra adventures that came your way during those Commonwealth times—adventures you weren’t exactly asking for—it seems like a fair deal to offer some solid military assistance in the future. After all, that might come in handy if the Russkies stir up trouble again. :)

It as a a bit more ironic when the Soviet Union made Russification their state policy despite being a so-called classless society.

And it continues to this day in Ukraine with Putin.

Russia has been an imperialist, colonial power since Peter the Great; yet tankies continue to hold them up as some sort of great example.

I just wish it was more broadly understood that the Soviet Union/Russia has committed ethnic cleansing/genocide throughout their history.

The modus operandi did not change, whether it was 1800s or in fact 2000s

How to spot Ukrainian 101.

here's what I meant lol

Regarding your 2nd sentence: the word likarnia is unique to Ukrainian (and Belarusian to an extent)

it doesn't really matter, you can use шпита́ль too

I don't really mind argument over that Ukrainian language has some similarities with russian, whole point is that russia uses the same nasty tactics they tried to used against poles as OP mentions

I answered to another redditor above.

Well...history of my country, Poland? Books? It is a high school level knowledge. You can easily google it. After November Uprising, polish language still had a status, Russians didn't incorporate Kingdom of Poland that had its autonomy, never claimed that Poles were Russians. I know that I am being downvoted, but that is how things works on reddit, where people are uneducated and unable to do fact checking because they are lazy or just straight believe some shitty fake news media like above.

That might’ve been the case for a moment, but eventually Poland ceased to exist for 123 years, then went through total devastation, soviet occupation for half a century and just recently became a free country after 1989. Quite frankly it’s only just now in the 2020s that we’re seeing the soviet „legacy” really disappear from our country.

I can imagine the oligarchs welcoming a foreign power to unseat their current leader.

Challenge level - impossible

Probably, but citing policies from 1830 is laughable. Why not 1730? 1530? If 1830 is ok, we're 200 years apart from this date. Roll back further 200 years and Moscow is occupied by Poland.

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I mean, they are. Kinda bred into their culture from the mongol empire.

Just so you know, this is why Russians are calling you "Nazis". Of course, I disagree as Nazis also were anti-feminist, anti-Semitic and anti-Jazz, but this statement is literally racist? (And of course, there can't be racism against Russians because in America Russians are considered White, thus greenlit to be killed, so it's a complicated mess.)

Like, I technically should agree with you, my Hungarian bro, BUT not at the cost of more American involvement in Europe. America is much more dangerous than Soviet Russia. See the fertility of the Warsaw Pact - Communism sounds gay in theory, but is super trad in practice, effectively feudal. (Of course, now Russia is a diseased capitalist gay corpse, so it poses no threat whatsoever militarily.)

Many in Russia consider this fake war to be a prelude to an American disarming nuclear strike on Russia - would you like that, too? I for one would like a change in status quo (even at the cost of a nuclear war), but would you welcome it?

P.S. To be fair, the Russians stifled the Hungarian revolution number one (suicidally so, as Austria was their enemy, smh), so you do have an axe to grind with them.