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> As I was telling my dad the other day, it’s nice as Bangladeshis that we have an ethnostate we can always return to. Does this extend to others too? Is it ma
by lmz 4y ago
> As I was telling my dad the other day, it’s nice as Bangladeshis that we have an ethnostate we can always return to.
Does this extend to others too? Is it maybe best to make Germany an Ethnostate so when they are thrown out of some other country they have some place to return to?
- klipt 4y agoAlready happened, the Soviets expelled German minorities from Eastern Europe, and East Germany absorbed them. Of course, that expulsion was mostly because Germany invaded Eastern Europe in the first place.
- xyzzyz 4y agoThe expelled German Russians had little to do with the invading Nazi Germans.
- type0 4y agoYou probably mean Russian Germans like Volga Germans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_Germans#Deportation_and_genocide_of_the_Germans_from_USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_Germans#Deportation_and_...
- hackandthink 4y agoI guess most of the 12-14 million people went to West Germany. "after WWII, the Allies carried out the largest forced population transfer -- nowadays referred to as "ethnic cleansing" -- in human history. Between 12 and 14 million civilians" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/expulsion-germans-forced-migration_b_1625437 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/expulsion-germans-forced-migr...