On this day 61 years ago UN adopted Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, originally proposed by the USSR. This put an end to the colonial policy of European states.
On this day 61 years ago UN adopted Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, originally proposed by the USSR. This put an end to the colonial policy of European states.
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The pure irony of the USSR proposing this while maintaining an empire of nations “liberated” from the Germans. I’m essentially convinced that it was only a play on the USSR’s part to weaken its western adversaries, even if the result was necessary/morally correct.
That’s as hypocritical as the US proposing a ban on drone warfare (and, afterwards, continuing to do so). The right move, the correct policy, but ruined by hypocrisy. The Soviet Union had policies that led to massive demographic shifts in its occupied or non-Russia areas, ones that make the current European demographic changes look hilarious.
And just look how that turned out
It’s also interesting Siberia was an obvious Russian colony. But these things applied only to *overseas colonies*.
“This put an end to the colonial policy of European states.”
Oh my sweet summer child.
So, what happened when Israel conquered and kept the West Bank after the 6 day war, and it was then recognized as belonging to Israel? Not taking one side or the other, just pointing out that apparently there are exceptions.
And some of them wish they never became independent.
The same USSR who illegally annexed some countries, including the Baltic countries. Go figure.
It’s r/europe so I have a suspicion that I’m about to be flooded with downvotes, but decolonization has been overwhelmingly a boon for the decolonized, from lifespans to frequency of famines to GDP and GDP per capita to Human Development.
Fuck the Soviet Union, this is so hypocritical.
Post 1945, they colonized and subjugated all of Eastern and lots of Central Europe.
In the Baltics, like Estonia, the NKVD and the KGB killed *thousands* of innocent people, who were force conscripted to fight for the nazis, even when they deserted.
Then they moved tens of thousands of Russian colonials to Estonia while bannings Estonian teachers and professors and seperating families, looting ordinary people and killing people accusing them of being partisans.
They also invaded their subjects multiple times.
The hypocrisy in this, its bold
It is really the humiliation US visited upon UK and France during the Suez crisis that signal the end of European colonialism. UN serves at the pleasure of great powers, a lesson well learnt from its league of nations predecessor.
Proposed by USSR. What a joke. The most colonial country in the world at that time not named England.
>This put an end to the colonial policy of European states
This resolution was adopted at the end of 1960.
Already in the 1940s and 1950s the UK had begun decolonising, and it became a bipartisan policy at the beginning of the year with MacMillan’s Wind of Change speech. You can just look up the list of countries which were granted independence prior to 1960.
Dutch East Indies were granted independence in 1949, Belgian Congo was already independent by the time of this declaration.
This is just taking credit for something already happening. And those countries which were maintaining a colonial policy, carried on regardless. E.g. Portuguese in Angola.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_of_Change_(speech)
How hypocritical of USSR, russia is truly the USSR’s heir with it’s modern politics, lol
>Independence of colonized nations.
>By the the USSR.
Bruh.
It did not end colonial policies of Western Europe. They ended it when it became financially and militarily impossible to continue to control these vast lands.
And it didn’t do anything against Russian colonialism in Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
Ironic
So the soviets did atleast one good thing
besides looking and sounding cool B)
Majority of comments are concerned with USSR’s hypocrisy instead of content and effect of declaration, which is very annoying. What matters are results not moral integrity of agent.
Colonialism is hard, neo colonialism is much easier
Then Africa colonized by USSR
It s funny to saw Ussr proposed this when occupiying in the same time 15% of earth. Colonialism is not if you are communist I guess
USSR (to UN): “Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples”
USSR (to Baltics): No not you
Ironic that the nation who proposed it is the only nation in the un to have kept 90% of its colonial territory, even funnier considering the 10% they didnt keep they sold too the usa. Just saying lol
>Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries
Meanwhile Salazar, dictator of Portugal:
– Colonies? Oh nono, those are Portuguese core territories, no different than any territory in the mainland… It’s just our Ultramar (overseas) territories.
And still we have Françafrique, Commonwealth of Nations, military intervention by European and North American countries including Russia and then China. Colonialism is dead long live the Neocolonialism!