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Care to elaborate?
by gdy 4y ago
Care to elaborate?
- marshray 4y agoThe current genocide against Ukrainian-ness is one example. Some other examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tatars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tat... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Sov...
- gdy 4y agoWhat I've seen look like war crimes, what is the argument for qualifying them as genocide? Stalin's (and bolshevik's in general) crimes are horrible, but ethnic Russians weren't safe from them either. Have you seen breakdown of their victims by ethnicity?
- marshray 4y agoThe point is that Russia is the largest country by land area, composed of a great many regions and ethnicities, and yet all the language-speakers have vanished. This didn't happen by accident. It is the result of a program of systematic, violent, erasure.
- gdy 4y ago"yet all the language-speakers have vanished" Now that is just false. [0][1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Russia [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_of_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_of_Russia
- marshray 4y agoThe most common non-Russian language is spoken by just 3% of the population. All others are below 1%.
- gdy 4y agoWhich is order of magnitude higher than, for example, in Canada, where less than 1% in total speak indigenous languages. [0] Or look at Poland where only 1.8% in total speak a language other than Polish. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Canada#Indigenous_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Canada#Indigenous... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Poland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Poland
- jevgeni 4y agoThe lengths this guy will go to, to deny his country's ethno-fascist roots. Russian-exceptionalism is a hard drug to come down from.