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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, the USSR annexing it's neighbours and then exporting their resources and people was very much imperialism.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Read this book to stop seeming so silly.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/

Also the non Russian SSRs voted to keep the soviet union around at higher rates than the Russians.