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(01-26-2016 02:34 PM)the Thing Wrote:  

Joseph Stalin Wrote:

According to Joseph Stalin: "a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people;" "a nation is not a casual or ephemeral conglomeration, but a stable community of people"; "a nation is formed only as a result of lengthy and systematic intercourse, as a result of people living together generation after generation"; and, in its entirety: "a nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture."

HOLY SHIT Stalin was more American than the average American. I'll go cry in vain now.

I had a bunch more things to say but I don't need to, because this post sums them up quite well: thread-53268...pid1202719

It's kind of amusing that you quote Stalin. You're also not putting this into historical context. The Soviet Union was made up of many different satellite nations and cultures. Stalin was a mass murdering propagandist who had to assert authoritarian control over all these disparate cultures and nations. His talk of "unity" came at the barrel of a gun.

He would disappear dissenters and he sent millions of non cooperative ethnic cultures and individuals into gulags. Throughout his rule he was trying to fit square pegs into round holes. He didn't care if he broke the entire playset while trying to do it. That's the worldview of a maniac. The type of unity he's talking about simply doesn't work in the way he envisioned it nor should it quoted and made into a framework to run future societies.