No, it usually results in genocides against those labelled as "enemies".
Tell that to socialist dictators mao and stalin who killed over 100M people.
Lets compare all socialist dictators to fascists, shall we?
Maybe we can get to the bottom of this.
You don't think that Mao and Stalin were nationalists?
Populists, too.
Stalin was anti- culture point blank.,.. Therefor overall he was the Antithesis of Nationalism.
Anti culture be it anti-Religion, anti-Music, anti-Writer, or anti-Books, and even anti-Foods.
Consumer goods in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia
After the revolution, the Soviet government strove to eliminate
bourgeois values and lifestyle by distributing resources equally. Things that were once viewed as
petit-bourgeois and associated with the elite—such as luxury goods—became theoretically accessible to all citizens. To a Soviet consumer, a luxury item was any good with the exception of plain breads, cabbage, potatoes and vodka.
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Culture of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia
Many writers were imprisoned and killed, or died of starvation, examples being
Daniil Kharms,
Osip Mandelstam,
Isaac Babel and
Boris Pilnyak.
Andrei Platonov worked as a caretaker and wasn't allowed to publish. The work of
Anna Akhmatova was also condemned by the regime, although she notably refused the opportunity to escape to the West. After a short period of the renaissance of Ukrainian literature, more than 250 Ukrainian writers died during the
Great Purge, for example
Valerian Pidmohylnyi (1901–1937)), in the so called
Executed Renaissance. Texts of imprisoned authors were confiscated by the
NKVD and some of them were published later. Books were removed from libraries and destroyed.
In addition to literature, musical expression was also repressed during the Stalin era, and at times the music of many Soviet composers was banned altogether.
Dmitri Shostakovich experienced a particularly long and complex
relationship with Stalin, during which his music was denounced and prohibited twice, in 1936 and 1948 (see
Zhdanov decree).
Sergei Prokofiev and
Aram Khachaturian had similar cases. Although
Igor Stravinsky did not live in the Soviet Union, his music was officially considered formalist and anti-Soviet.
USSR anti-religious campaign (1921–1928) - Wikipedia
See also:
Society of the Godless and
NKVD Order No. 00447
Main article:
USSR anti-religious campaign (1928–1941)
The Orthodox church suffered terribly in the 1930s, and many of its members were killed or sent to
labor camps. Between 1927 and 1940, the number of Orthodox churches in the Russian Republic fell from 29,584 to fewer than 500. The watershed year was 1929, when Soviet policy put much new legislation in place that formed the basis for the harsh anti-religious persecution in the 1930s.
Anti-religious education was introduced beginning in the first-grade in 1928 and anti-religious work was intensified throughout the education system. At the same time, in order to remove the church's intellectuals and support official propaganda that only backward people believed in God,
[65] the government conducted a massive purge of Christian intellectuals, most of whom died in the camps or in prison.
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The church's successful competition with the ongoing and widespread atheistic propaganda, prompted new laws to be adopted in 1929 on 'Religious Associations' as well as amendments to the constitution, which forbade all forms of public, social, communal, educational, publishing or missionary activities for religious believers.
[64] This also prevented, of course, the church from printing any material for public consumption or responding to the criticism against it. This caused many religious tracts to be circulated as illegal literature or
samizdat.
[21] Numerous other measures were introduced that were designed to cripple the church, and effectively made it illegal to have religious activities of any sort outside of liturgical services within the walls of the few churches that would remain open, and even these would be subject to much interference and harassment. Catechism classes, religious schools, study groups, Sunday schools and religious publications were all illegal and/or banned.
The League of the Militant Godless, under Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, was the main instrument of the anti-religious campaign and it was given special powers that allowed it to dictate to public institutions throughout the country what they needed to do for the campaign.
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After 1929 and through the 1930s, the closing of churches, mass arrests of the clergy and religiously active laity, and persecution of people for attending church reached unprecedented proportions.
[3][64] The LMG employed terror tactics against believers in order to further the campaign, while employing the guise of protecting the state or prosecuting law-breakers. The clergy were attacked as foreign spies and trials of bishops were conducted with their clergy as well as lay adherents who were reported as 'subversive terroristic gangs' that had been unmasked.
[67] Official propaganda at the time called for the banishment of the very concept of God from the Soviet Union.
[68] These persecutions were meant to assist the ultimate socialist goal of eliminating religion.
[68][69] From 1932 to 1937
Joseph Stalin declared the 'five-year plans of atheism' and the LMG was charged with completely eliminating all religious expression in the country.
[68] Many of these same methods and terror tactics were also imposed against others that the regime considered to be its ideological enemies.
The debate between the ‘rightist’ and ‘leftist’ sides of how to best combat religion found some conclusion in 1930 and afterwards, when the state officially condemned extremes on both sides. Marxist leaders who took either position on this issue would find themselves attacked by a paranoid Stalin who did not tolerate other authorities to speak as authorities on public policy.
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A lull in the active persecution was experienced in 1930-33 following Stalin's 1930 article 'Diziness From Success', however, it swept back in fervor again afterwards.
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In 1934 the persecution of the Renovationist sect began to reach the proportions of the persecution of the old Orthodox church.
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During the
purges of 1937 and 1938, church documents record that 168,300 Russian Orthodox clergy were arrested. Of these, over 100,000 were shot.
[73] Many thousands of victims of persecution became recognized in a special canon of saints known as the "new martyrs and confessors of Russia".
A decline in enthusiasm in the campaign occurred in the late 1930s.
[74] The tone of the anti-religious campaign changed and became more moderate .
[68] It ended at the outbreak of World War II.
Official Soviet figures reported that up to one third of urban and two thirds of rural population still held religious beliefs by 1937. However, the anti-religious campaign of the past decade and the terror tactics of the
militantly atheist regime, had effectively eliminated all public expressions of religion and communal gatherings of believers outside of the walls of the few churches that still held services.
[75] This was accomplished in a country that only a few decades earlier had had a deeply Christian public life and culture that had developed for almost a thousand years.