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Nobody would care about Russian minorities and their rights if Russia wouldnt weaponize them. Its a typical Russian strategy: Radicalize and support those mino
by Paradigma11 3y ago
Nobody would care about Russian minorities and their rights if Russia wouldnt weaponize them. Its a typical Russian strategy:
Radicalize and support those minorities. If the country does not do anything, it has a rebellious subversive group being directed by a hostile country. If it does anything it just goes to show how hostile and suppressive those countries are which justifies more official Russian reactions.
Also dont forget that those loyal Russian minorities were part of the imperial oppressive structure by which Russia ruled over its subjects.
- lmm 3y ago> Nobody would care about Russian minorities and their rights if Russia wouldnt weaponize them. Anyone who cares about protecting non-Russian ex-Soviet languages and cultures for principled reasons should care about protecting the Russian language and culture in places where they're a minority, for the same reason. > Also dont forget that those loyal Russian minorities were part of the imperial oppressive structure by which Russia ruled over its subjects. The Russian empire transplanted various peoples at various times as a tool of oppression, but that's hardly the fault or responsibility of the poor peasants who got transplanted. And on the ruling side, Stalin the Georgian was every bit as oppressive and imperial as Russian rulers before or since.
- Paradigma11 3y agoWhat I meant was, that no country would treat Russian minorities any way different than other ethnicities. Russia weaponizing those people makes less favorable legislation necessary. Sure, but the Russian Empire in its various forms transplanted those Russian people because they were loyal and could be put into positions of power. If you compare their treatment to that of the German minorities after WW2 they got a very good deal.