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Or, for more recent and perhaps relevant examples: Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and the Donetsk Republic.
by nkoren 6y ago
Or, for more recent and perhaps relevant examples: Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and the Donetsk Republic.
- owl57 6y agoOr, for slightly less recent but perhaps just as relevant examples: Moldova, Georgia, and, most of all, Ukraine.
- nkoren 6y agoAh yes, those famous provinces of Russia, which but for the intervention of some meddling foreigners would have no language, culture, history, or national identity of their own.
- vetinari 6y agoAt least with Georgia, if it were not for Russian empire, there wouldn't be any Georgia today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_within_the_Russian_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_within_the_Russian_Emp...
- owl57 6y agoWhy the strawman? I believe all these separatist movements involve preexisting national identity, both ones I listed and ones you listed.