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I know this isn't how history works and yada Yada but it really do feel like this sometimes
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I mean, Russia was an imperialist and settler-colonial country back then, and they still became the USSR. We're talking about right after the First World War, which radicalized many workers even in imperialist nations.
Russia's revolution was led by peasants. The Russian situation vs the rest of Europe was very different. The Russians who led the Russian revolution were not benefiting from colonialism, and in some cases were themselves the colonized people. As Russia conquered lands nearby rather than having far flung colonies. A colony of a European power has socialist potential (Think Vietnam) and Russia while it did engage in imperialism and colonialism did not have a revolution led by the people who benefit from those systems. Its a very different situation.