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National community and homeland promise that Jiang says Stalin used to mobilize sacrifice during World War II.
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Mother Russia
National community and homeland promise that Jiang says Stalin used to mobilize sacrifice during World War II.
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The Soviets fought for Mother Russia while Germans fought for Lebensraum, making Soviet motivation deeper in Jiang's account.
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Stalin's wartime nationalism, including restored traditional/religious space and Mother Russia, galvanized people more effectively than international communist ideology.
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Jiang argues that German invasion gave Stalin something more important than Lend-Lease: national unity around the Great Patriotic War and Mother Russia.
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"...for each other. And that's what Stalin understood fundamentally. So, yeah, Mother Russia was his promise to the people. Okay? Does that make sense?..."
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"...for the oil. But the Soviets were fighting for their motherland, mother Russia. So they were much more motivated to fight than the Germans...."
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"I think we can add one thing to that. There wasn't really a space. And during the... And so what that meant was that..."
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"Okay. So, that's a great point. Thank you. Okay. So, his major contribution to theory, communist theory, is the idea of nationalism. All right?..."
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"...this war for the love of their country, the love of Mother Russia."
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"Okay? So, and what turned the war was the will to fight. The Russians lost 26 million people in the war. That's a lot..."
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"...greatest literature, some of the greatest music, philosophy, actually comes from Russia. So think of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky. In terms of music, you have Tchaikovsky..."
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