Whenever the Russophobes were to insult your pro-Russian position, they would draw upon Soviet imagery…

I realized this by comparing the main memes used to insult Russians. Vatnik, tankie, comrade… Bitch I ain’t your comrade.

It reminds me of the Russian vloger, Goblin once remarking that every anti-Sovietist is a Russophobe because the anti-Sovietist treat Russia as guilty of all the alleged crimes. And certainly, the Russophobes like to evoke Sovok when they lob their insults on Russians.

But seriously, was the USSR all that bad? They industrialized, they defeated the Nazis, they flew to cosmos. So if you say that the USSR was bad and criminal, you have to dismiss and condemn all those achievements. You would have to say sorry to Banderites, Forest Brothers, Basmaches, and other similar faggots.

And the most ridiculous thing is that because the Soviet system failed economically, Russia at present is rather capitalist with a high social inequality and low tax rate, which is far from the Soviet ideal.