1) A thread- #LateSovietBritain is a joke tag but in fact the situation in the UK resembles the collapse of what was a multinational empire masquerading as an egalitarian society.
https://twitter.com/komarnyckyj/status/1333719294539128837
2) The Soviet leaders really retained all the prejudices of their Tsarist predecessors who had created an empire welded together by violence and colonial oppression. The Circassian genocide is but one example adiga.com/assets/book.pdf
3) The Soviet Union was a pseudo federation of bogus republics many of which were based on ethnic areas which had been violently colonised and subject to genocide: Circassia, Tatarstan, etc.
4) "Russia" itself is similarly still a federation of pseudo republics which lack all sovereignty.
5) The United Kingdom is akin to Russia in that Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland are the legacies of violent colonial policies which arguably included ethnic cleansing/ the destruction of indigenous cultures.
6) Many historians reject the claim that the Irish Famine was genocide but it cost up to a million lives and a quarter of the Irish population- and some exulted in their deaths independent.ie/entertainment/…
7) The Highland Clearances devastated Scotland: open.library.ubc.ca/media/download…
8) The indigenous culture of Wales was crushed bbc.co.uk/wales/history/…
9) Yet the UK masks all of this complicated legacy with a historical narrative that glosses over England's brutal hegemony - and crucially the failure to find a role with the loss of empire post WW2.
10) WW2 is simplistically celebrated as a "triumph": the complex relationship with the US is "special"- even the BBC presents the US as having been "invited" to establish a base on Diego Garcia.
11) The country's bi party political system centred on London was uniquely vulnerable to Kremlin subversion but also always heading towards autocracy and corruption- FPTP meant the winner took it all
12) And their was a continuous erosion of standards from WW2 onwards and a growing estrangement from reality- the UK had no clear mission in the world and the safeguards against looting grew ever weaker.
13) Britain gradually became a theme park of its own imagined past, unable to find a role in the present- this in turn led to the idea that it could reclaim a position it never had modeled on fantasies of empire.
14) Vote Leave exploited this mood and, with a little help from the Kremlin, tore the UK from the EU- but it is an oligarchic project and hastened tendencies already visible in the UK, an offshore bank and real estate portfolio for goons and money launderers.
15) What next? Westminster politicians increasingly beholden to oligarchs will pursue populist policies focused on tory voting England , and Scotland and ultimately Wales will break away.
16) England will be under Tory rule for decades without the inclusion of Wales and Scotland. The looting will increase beyond the possibility of any legal redress. The country will be marginalised and impoverished.
17) This is only one possible future. Will it happen? The choice is yours. Look at Ukraine and Belarus where the people are continuously battling oligarchy. They will win. You can too. Organise. This is your Battle for Britain. ENDS
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