Stalin’s Soviet DEI Program

DEI began as a tool used by Lenin and Stalin - it ended in disaster. So too will today’s DEI

The Soviet Union under Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin implemented the korenizatsiya programme. The programme was later repackaged in the West as “social justice” and diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”). It has also been used to fuel decolonisation movements and radical indigenous movements worldwide. Whether it is called korenizatsiya, social justice or DEI, the aim

Stalin’s Soviet DEI Program

Imagine a sociopolitical movement that divides the population roughly into two essential classes: the oppressive “great power” class and the marginalized minority classes, who are said to be oppressed by the powerful. Now imagine that movement tells the population—and especially those minority classes—the following story. You are oppressed by the great power and its chauvinistic beneficiaries. Our movement sees this and thinks it’s a great injus…