Hollywood killed the whole European movie industry. Perhaps you didn't notice that because the next phase is already happening - inside Hollywood the retarded trend of making super expensive meaningless movies after comics that target mostly spoiled teenagers has ruined pretty much all other movie genres.

While I agree with much of your sentiment (the quality of much of modern American media), are you saying Hollywood "killed" it on its own, as opposed to people choosing what to watch? These things are completely different.

Are you suggesting that people being given options of movies to watch is at all similar to forced culture, banning literature or religious writings in certain languages, changing street signs away from native language, etc?

Soft cultural power consumed by choice is in no way similar to hard power delivered through force, coercion, or law.

This doesn't mean that the culture is good or bad, simply that being given the choice to consume culture is better than being occupied, imposed on, culture diluted against your will, etc.

IMO, this is a false equivalent, at best. Trying to compare the two seems bizarre.

I try to treat a language as communication tool first and I try to avoid bringing up the politics argument in a debate about language.

OK, but you're dodging the point by viewing it as if its in a vacuum.

However, somebody said that a language spreads after an army is marching.

Now this is the point, really. The point was that apologist posters downplay the significance of minimizing a country's culture through occupation/annexation/integration, and imposing another through force. My main gripe is that in this thread, and many others here, some are calling for "leveling Ukrainian cities", that it would be justified....because of Iraq! WTF? That because the SU passed through countries on the way to Berlin, that they were entitled to annex, occupy, absorb, integrate...however you want to describe it, much of Europe. Further, that it was perfectly OK to impose Soviet culture and language, that everyone deserved whatever the Soviets meted out (woman and children) because Nazis, and that Europe should have essentially remained Soviet as some sort of twisted perception of justice. Also, all these countries should be thankful for their new occupiers.

I can understand you disliking Soviet Union for any reasons: for personal reasons, because you were brainwashed and indoctrinated as adult,

Why is this always attributed to brainwashing, indoctrination, etc? As if the opposite couldnt possibly be the case for the opposing view, your view. That Soviet apologists are brainwashed, indoctrinated. I could easily say the same for you.

because you were taught like that in school as kid and didn't bother to check other points of view.

I don't watch TV, loathe pop culture, and read from international sources specifically avoiding American news.

Maybe, just maybe, what the Soviets did was simply distasteful to many, at best? I never said I don't understand the reasons for it, my primary issue is that Soviet/Russian apologists are largely totally unwilling to criticize Russian/Soviet actions in any meaningful way (if at all). There are huge groups of very vocal Americans about government policy, actions, history, horrible things that have been done.

From the majority here? Denials, defense, distortions, shifting subjects, false comparisons, deflection, anything but meaningful introspection.