What makes a nationality reactionary? The population has to be so deeply entrenched in anti communism that there was never a significant communist movement. Reactionary nationalities also frequently sided with fascists throughout history.
Here are a few examples:
Turks Ukrainians Poles Estonians, Latvians, Baltics etc. Croats Finns
Nationalism for these nationalities is inherently reactionary and anti communist (similar to white nationalism in America). The only way for communists in these countries to ally with proletarian internationalism is to blatantly REJECT their national identity.
The idea of an inherently reactionary nationality is anti-marxist revisionism, and also liberalism.
Sebastian Clark
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Hunter Green
I never implied that reactionary nationalities cannot be a part of the communist movement. But to do so, they have to reject their national identity. Kind of like what the Antigermans do, but Germans obviously don't fit into the category of reactionary nationality.
Elijah Wilson
It probably has more to do with the historical and material conditions of where those nationalities are geographically located. Most of what you listed are Eastern European, who were annexed by Nazis, then subsequently annexed by the USSR. probably the same reason the US does; neoliberal capitalism begins decaying and nazism is a more attractive alternative than ebil gommunism
Michael Gutierrez
All nationalities are reactionary.
Anthony Ward
Judging by your examples, the definition of a reactionary nationality is "people who have been historically oppressed by Russians (or in the Croatian case, Serbs) and ended up allying with the Nazis during WWII as they saw them as a lesser evil".
A real, non-tankie definition of a reactionary nationality would be a nationality that is culturally anticommunist, a nationality whose cultural values are in stark contrast with leftist ideologies. The best example here would be America, which is thoroughly culturally liberal since day one.
