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>We base our objections to the Armenians Objection to an ethnicity. Key indicator of genocide for any action taken based on such an objection. >on three disti
by trhway 4y ago
>We base our objections to the Armenians
Objection to an ethnicity. Key indicator of genocide for any action taken based on such an objection.
>on three distinct grounds. In the first place, they have enriched themselves at the expense of the Turks. In the second place, they are determined to domineer over us and to establish a separate state. In the third place, they have openly encouraged our enemies. They have assisted the Russians in the Caucasus, and our failure there is largely explained by their actions.
Reads almost verbatim just like Nazi Germany on Jews back then or Nazi Russia on Ukrainians today.
> We have therefore come to the irrevocable decision that we shall make them powerless before this war is ended.”
Again very similar to the perception of themselves as the master race (Nazi Germany) or the master nation (Nazi Russia) and thus perceiving themselves as having the right to act in such a way.
- JasonFruit 4y agoIt's also very similar to the sort of talk I hear about Muslim immigrants in the United States: "In the first place they take jobs from Americans, in the second they want to impose Sharia law, and in the third place they support terrorism." There's always an 'other' who will be blamed, and we have to guard our minds against plausible talk like this.
- p1necone 4y agoThe Republicans are doing a perfectly good job imposing Sharia law themselves. No need to let anyone else steal their thunder.
- jpmoral 4y ago> so that I can explain our position on the whole Armenian subject. Also very similar is the use of the phrase "the <ethnicity> subject|question|issue" to plant the seed in the mind of the listener that there is indeed a problem that needs to be "solved".
- baybal2 4y agoRussia is coincindentally heading right the way of Ottoman empire, seemingly step, by step. Decades of futile attempts to retake Balkans after Greek revolt lit the fire in Europe, and caused a chain reaction of support for Ottoman dismantlement. For Russia to survive as a state in coming decades, it will not need a "Russian Washington," but rather somebody more like a Russian Ataturk.
- hoseja 4y agoAnd yet again, the problem is that the dismantlement wasn't thorough enough.
- eggsbenedict 4y agoNazi Russia? Not once, but twice?
- trhway 4y agoNazism = totalitarian fascist state plus political nationalism. Fascist Italy and Spain weren't nazist for example, while Germany was and Russia today is. Informally that specific flavor of the Russian Nazi ideology is called "rashism".
- WastingMyTime89 4y ago[flagged]
- trhway 4y agoI'm a Russian, grew up in USSR and like for many others in USSR members of my family fought, died, got decorated fighting German Nazi in WWII. So I wonder what kind of disrespect you mean. >I know American use the term extremely casually like it meant nothing. Do you think genocide and ethnic cleansing that the Russia Nazism conducts now in Ukraine is "nothing"?
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoIt’s not disrespectful to Russia. It’s disrespectful to the actual victims of Nazism, the ideology of the NSDAP. Nazi is not a placeholder nor a meaningless adjective. Does Russia follows the ideology of the NSDAP?
- trhway 4y agoAs i said i have members of the family who actually died in that fight, and i don't see anything disrespectful toward them in calling a nazist regime for what it is.
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- f6v 4y ago> Nazi Russia Be honest, you came here just to write this.