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Indigenous people in Canada, Australia, and the United States were basically rounded up and killed (or re-educated, depending on the century). Not sure how tha
by throwawayjava 9y ago
Indigenous people in Canada, Australia, and the United States were basically rounded up and killed (or re-educated, depending on the century).
Not sure how that's substantially different from the soviets rounding up the ethno-nationalists?
- rsynnott 9y agoI mentioned modern democracy. I'd have serious trouble considering those to be modern democracies at the time. Universal suffrage seems like a minimum requirement.
- throwawayjava 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc... was still expanding during the 1940's and 1950's when most everyone (except indigenous peoples) could vote. "We stop killing off / imprisoning people once we give them the right to vote" seems a little too tautological.