We all know that anti-communism is at the core of fascism. This short thread proposes an interesting corrolary: much of the anti-Soviet attitude found in formerly socialist Eastern European countries, and ultimately perhaps even the motivation of the significant section of the population that did not stand to gain materially yet still supported the restoration of capitalism and the fracturing of the USSR is resentment at having been excluded from the West’s white supremacist global hegemony. This infatuation with the supposed “superiority” of the West, the internalized inferiority complex and desire to be included among the “white” Europeans as opposer to the “inferior, barbaric asiatics” is deeply embedded in the collective consciousness of especially countries like Poland, Ukraine and the Baltics, but also Romania and much of the Balkans.
The author of the thread cites Georgia as an example with which they are personally familiar, and i can only confirm that i have experienced the same attitudes and self-hatred among Romanians.
Would others who have experience with the cultural attitudes of these countries agree with this thesis?
Good points. And if you then consider that capitalism is and always has been racial capitalism, bingo—you get to the material roots of white supremacy and of anti-(‘eastern’)communism.
Now for some double negatives: It’s impossible not to be anti-communist and not white supremacist. Or: anti-communists of any stripe must by definition be white supremacist and racist. This includes all liberals, without fail, although they will deny it.