Lenin and the rest of the bolsheviks were so based in naming the new revolutionary state "Soviet Union". No nationalist symbolism, no ethnic supremacism, no historical callout to a genocidal past. Nothing. Just the union of worker councils.
Internationalism truly died in the 1920s. Every other "socialist movement after it has been Napoleon-like technocrats with 19th century aesthetics.
Most Americans still just collectively called it "Russia." That's why in western cartoons they always depict Russians dancing the Hopak even though its mostly a Ukrainian thing.
>>2691721nobody cares about how (((ameriKKKans))) called it
>>2691707Yup, also their second national anthem was 'The Internationale' (after Workers Marseillaise)
>>2691707>we don't appreciate enough the name Soviet UnionSpeak for yourself.
>>2691707Consultation Union lmao
The closest we came to this again was when the "Chinese Red Army" was renamed to simply the "People's Liberation Army"
By the 60s to 80s Soviet was already turning into people. People referred to themselves as Soviet first and their ethnicity second. If the Soviet Union was still around today and another one hundred years, Soviet meaning council would have become archaic and Soviet would have been the nation
Internationalism died on the 5th March 1953.
True
>>2691827>Soviet meaning council would have become archaicFunny how to they kept councils in their name but disbanded already powerless councils. Sad state of affairs that Stalin killed the actual communists in the party.