Thread 17771370

What caused 20th century Russian fondness for African liberation movements?

>>17771370 (OP)
Ennemy of my ennemy

>>17771370 (OP)
communism

>>17771370 (OP)
"Large black man shoveling small white man out of Africa" is a bizarrely common recurring motif

>>17772714
They seem to really like Africans!

They'd get a long well with Northern abolitionist

>>17772744
They saw black southerners as a group to be appealed to in weakening the US

>>17771370 (OP)
lol it wasn't out of the kindness of their own hearts. Both the United States and the Soviet Union supported decolonization so they could replace European colonial empires.

>>17771370 (OP)
its was a way to at the very least gain closer allies in the area along with being ripe pickings for communist revolutions

>>17772770
Yes this is something people often forget.
Even though the euro empires were in a crisis after the war there technically was a strong bond between them as evidenced from supporting each other during Suez Crisis for instance. Even if the colonial possessions would be diminished as long as they kept the key, resource rich parts and necessary supply routes they could've rebound and become the third power. This wasn't something either the US or USSR wanted so both pushed hard for decolonisation.

>>17773745
>Even if the colonial possessions would be diminished as long as they kept the key, resource rich parts and necessary supply routes they could've rebound and become the third power
And having to fight off back to back rebellions and doing 24/7 crackdowns. Euros missed Marshall Plan funds to fund their colonies and military forces in said colony.

>>17771370 (OP)
One of the most popular movies in the Stalin era was a negrophiliac miscegenation drama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_(1936_film)

>>17771370 (OP)
Proxy wars against capitalism

>>17774580
>And having to fight off back to back rebellions and doing 24/7 crackdowns
Rebellions supported by the USSR and US.

>>17775227
>Rebellions supported by the USSR and US.
Not at all. They were already fermenting allover the place before and after WW2. Also forcing the entire globe to join in two shitty wars back to back and then trying to go back to normal like nothing happened pretty much fucked over any hope of reform ever occurring in the empires in a menaingful manner.

They loved black lweens (high test behavior)

Imagine being a soviet military attache sent to angola and you are greeted by this

Communist ideology + pragmatism.

>>17775264
>Not at all
Nope. Decolonisation was US/USSR programme, you can see that it was the case because when the British and the French went to enforce their key interests in Suez the first thing that happened was the US threatening sanctions. Likewise American puppet, Charles de Gaulle retreated from Algeria even as the war was being wrapped up and rebels were on the verge of complete extermination, to understand the extent of his betrayal just take this factoid - there was an attempt of military coup over this whole affair. A left-wing military coup. Literal leftists saw it for what it was.