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Does it really matter? Even if they were, it’s still amazing.
by Aeolun 2y ago
Does it really matter? Even if they were, it’s still amazing.
- beretguy 2y ago[flagged]
- armchairhacker 2y agoGovernment != people. Russia has a population of >140 million and not a democracy, you can’t accurately assume anything about a random civilian’s stance on Ukraine.
- epgui 2y agoThe parent commenter didn’t say anything about civilian Russians.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- ivm 2y agoYes, it matters a lot with regard to the colonial history where Russian, Soviet, and Tsarist governments have tried many times to eliminate the local cultures and identities of both indigenous peoples and other Slavic neighbors like Belarusians and Ukrainians.
- antisthenes 2y agoYou have to be quite delusional or historically ignorant to think that current "civilized" Western nations didn't do the same in the Age of Sail or British India or colonizing Africa. For some reason I don't see your posts condemning that in every other thread?