• Akagigahara@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There was the idea of bringing the revolution to others. While mostly after Stalin, the USSR heavily engaged in combat to exert its influence. The Korean and Vietnamese Civil Wars were proxy wars in which both the US and the USSR were engaged in. Then there was the soviet invasion of Afghanistan, too.

    Their propaganda has a lot of hints of glorifying the military, sacrifice and fanaticism.