How was Stalin so on point? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-cosmopolitan_campaign
He was the GOAT
>>18498908The Russian language entry is a lot better and more comprehensive. They actually winded it down in 1949. That was very typically Stalinist to go ham on something and then reverse course in the name of "combatting excesses."
>>18498998This standard applies to every wiki article desu, the "native language" of the topic discussed always has the best/most detailed article. I usually switch to German Wikipedia whenever I want to browse shit pertaining to Germany or Central Europe in general. I'm sure Russian Wikipedia has some cool finds but unfortunately that language filtered my American brain hard and I couldn't even wrap my head around how ever the fuck ь and ъ supposedly work
>>18498908he is the reason russia still exists
>>18499184I run it through Google Translate which varies in quality depending on the language. Russian is okay.The campaign came out of WWII and the emerging Cold War where there was a political requirement to construct an American enemy externally and pro-Western sympathizers internally. Very much read to me like a Soviet counterpart to McCarthyism as it heavily affected the arts. They also had an equivalent to the HUAC called "Courts of Honor" where they'd have people in the intelligentsia (arts, writers) testify. Also scientists if they had collaborated with American scientists. Nobody was killed or anything, it was more like you might get expelled from the party or lose a job.Also they yanked foreign films (French films were popular in the USSR) out of theaters, and renamed foods with foreign names the Soviet equivalent of Freedom Fries and declared a lot of technical things as Russian inventions even though they weren't. Russian culture = superior. Stuff like that. Then Zhdanov died (from alcoholism BTW) and the campaign petered out.
>>18499326Honestly a lot about Russia's schizophrenic relation with Stalin (Stalinist icons in a Church lmao) makes a lot more sense when you start to see Stalinism as a true individual's cult of personality and agenda just hijacking the whole label of "Marxist Leninism" and the USSR being viewed as an extension of Russian Power by nationalist types.
