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What 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 ethni

• marshray 4y ago
  The 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 ago
      The most common non-Russian language is spoken by just 3% of the population. All others are below 1%.
      • gdy 4y ago
        Which 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 ago
          The lengths this guy will go to, to deny his country's ethno-fascist roots. Russian-exceptionalism is a hard drug to come down from.