Many common people of Russia have always been nationalist, and many of them are arguably "socialistic" if not socialist to this day, but were they ever really cosmopolitan and internationalist? Elite citizens of the USSR must have been cosmopolitan, and those Soviet citizens who actually had faith in socialism must have been internationalist to a certain extent, but the rest?
Soviet leaders gave lots of weapons and other useful things to states and movements that they wanted to win to the Soviet sphere of influence. If decisions as to whether to spend resources abroad like that had been put to votes of all Soviet citizens, though, would they have voted for them? Since such votes were never taken, one never knows, but I suspect that Soviet leaders were more willing to commit resources to international socialism than common Soviet citizens were and that those cosmopolitan Russian elites who compared themselves to their Western counterparts and deplored their relative poverty were probably the first to complain of official Soviet internationalism. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>