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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Unless you are limiting your comparison to just the homeless in America, this is just not true. Most people don't know much about life in the Soviet Union in the first place, but even what people do know is typically limited only to li
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Many of the Russian speakers I know do this when speaking English - I'm guessing that's how they think of the phrase in Russian and want to translate it literally.
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Not in any detail. In my experience, Americans actually know very little about the Soviet Union, beyond that they were the "adversary" in the Cold War.
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
IMO, when thinking about this question it's useful to look at the full scope of their objectives. We don't know much about what else Stalin planned, but given the time he had it probably would not fundamentally change the order of
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Many were aware of the absurdities. The issue is that when one is inundated with absurdities around them, identifying what is true is impossible.
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
That's because the communists found a workaround; they were the first to invent the idea that they could just officially target discrimination against "Zionists" and "cosmopolitans" and just lob that accusation agai
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
I assume by "white Russian" you really mean someone of Russian ethnicity and not Belarus - which is what that phrase means to a Russian speaker - but you might want to clarify.
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
This is entirely incorrect. Putin's arrest warrant is for the mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children. The legal definition of genocide explicitly calls out such a situation as an example. There are other reasons why your comparison is f
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Continuing the WWII example, I think of partisans running sabotage operations while hiding out in the forests. In contrast, if the actions look closer to those of literal Nazi collaborators, then there is only depravity in that. https:&#x2
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Yes, I hold the "America is not a nation-state" perspective. I generally like the analysis by Bret Devereaux on this topic ( https://acoup.blog/2021/07/02/collections-my-country-isnt-a-... ), but if t
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Israel is not at all unique in this regard. Your (1) is essentially limited to Western Europe ("civic" nation-states) and non-nation-states.
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
I'm not aware of any "resistance groups" fighting the Nazis that created horrors of this kind - though the Soviet army itself probably did. In my opinion, what distinguishes these kinds of massacres is their utter meaningless
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Many former Soviet and former Yugoslavia nations did this. I ran the question by AI, and it seems to think that somewhere between 30-50 since WWII have done so explicitly.
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
This is probably what anti-Soviet groups in WWII thought when they allied with the Nazis and committed atrocities. Most people today don't seem to think they were justified in doing that.
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Countries like Russia (and probably Iran) still claim to be paragons of human rights in diplomatic settings - just that most are used to ignoring them because of the immense scale and sheer audacity of their hypocrisy.
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Ethnostate is an ambiguous word. Does it mean ethnically homogenous? Israel is certainly not that. Does it mean, essentially, a nation-state whose "national group" is an ethnicity? Israel is that - but so is much of Europe and som
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
This scenario already played out before in history; some people may believe those groups to have been heroes, but most can recognize that fighting in the name of independence did not make those groups any less guilty of committing atrocitie