At what point did they neglect their internationality to become some sort of neo-Russian Empire?
when comrade stalin reclaimed the party for the goyim
>>1945618
They were never really internationalist. Not since the party decided in favour of nationalist self-determination anyway.
>>1945623
Russian nationalism was really promoted later on though. It was a tool to get the peasants in line during the war, peasants that used to be villainized by Stalin.
Always, it's legacy was the Russian Empire, no matter who took over it wasn't gonna stop them exercising their authority over conquered lands of angry indigineous. Stalin just gave creedence to RUssian supremecism that was imbued into the system
>>1945618
Day 1.
Stalin
>>1945618
It sorta tried with Comintern, but that demanded all foreign commies obey the Soviet Union, and later demanded they be communists, which may have somewhat hampered all those foreign commies. Soviets also weren't really capable of actually launching revolutions across the world early on. Production was low as fuck for years, the Soviets didn't have huge resources to spare, and they tried to help Commies across quite a bit of the world, stretching out resources. Spain was a good try, but there were no succesful socialist revolutions besides the Russians till after WW2. Thanks to internal struggles they didn't really have the attention to spare either, and since Marxist theory says communist revolution is inevitable against the capitalist anyways, why get worried about it?
After WW2 the Soviet Union was really behaving like a normal state anyways, so while there was the threat of worldwide revolution supported by them, which was widely feared, the Soviets themselves had no plans to become international at any point really. Just the hope to create socialist countries across the whole face of the earth, and then join with them in developing communism (or just create allies after WW2 that could provide security and aid to the Soviet Union).
After World War II
>>1945618
When they killed the Tsar and his entire family. If they truly took over and laid claim based on a new form of government then there wouldn't really be any need to kill the old royals, just look at the constitutional monarchies or the number of exiled royals throughout history.