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>At least US is not in complete denial and that is quite laudable. Hopefully, more progress is made to that end. You are clearly in denial to the point where y
by smil 11y ago
>At least US is not in complete denial and that is quite laudable. Hopefully, more progress is made to that end.
You are clearly in denial to the point where you need to look at other nations 500 years ago and conjure things that never happened, to make yourself feel better about the U.S., a country that has never been democratic nor free.
As for Ingria in Sweden, still exist, have their own language and the state/county is still named after them, Ångermanland.
- sologoub 11y agoHow can I be in denial if I said I'm just learning about the US history and details? I absolutely acknowledge that I have not read enough on the subject to have a proper informed perspective. As for Ingria, I think we are referring to different places. I'm referring to the area mostly in present day Leningradskaya Oblast in Russia. From the same wikipedia article: "According to the Soviet census of 1989, there were 829 Izhorians, 449 of them in Russia (including other parts of the country) and 228 in Estonia." Compared to: "By 1897 (year of the Russian Empire Census) the number of Ingrian Finns had grown to 130,413, and by 1917 it had exceeded 140,000 (45,000 in Northern Ingria, 52,000 in Central (Eastern) Ingria and 30,000 in Western Ingria, the rest in Petrograd)." So from 140k to maybe ~800? At least to me, that's pretty heinous... Edit: Note that events I'm talking about are less than 100 years old and, as a resident of the country doing it, I had no idea it even happened...