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submitted 4 days ago by WilliamA@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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Is agitprop even worth it? I got 3 dislikes and a comment saying "I FOUND ONE" as if I'm some pokemon in under 5 minutes. What could have been done better to persuade more and spark genuine discussion? I'm new to agitprop, so any advice helps especially if it's coming from experience.

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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 4 days ago

Yeah, the USSR pretty much created Ukraine as a nation, same with Belarus. But this is even more extreme in the case of the central Asian republics where the Soviets had to do a lot of nation building just to create the nationalities that they packaged into the various Soviet Republics there. Before the Soviets these regions had little to no concept of a shared national identity and were just a lot disparate tribes. The borders there are quite artificial as a result of this and still cause problems today, just as the borders of Ukraine caused problems, just as the borders in the Caucasus caused problems (Abkhazia, Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh). They only made sense as internal administrative divisions of a larger whole.