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The point is that Russia is the largest country by land area, composed of a great many regions and ethnicities, and yet all the language-speakers have vanished.

This didn't happen by accident. It is the result of a program of systematic, violent, erasure.

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"yet all the language-speakers have vanished"

Now that is just false. [0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Russia

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_of_Russia

The most common non-Russian language is spoken by just 3% of the population.

All others are below 1%.

Which is order of magnitude higher than, for example, in Canada, where less than 1% in total speak indigenous languages. [0]

Or look at Poland where only 1.8% in total speak a language other than Polish. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Canada#Indigenous... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Poland

The lengths this guy will go to, to deny his country's ethno-fascist roots. Russian-exceptionalism is a hard drug to come down from.

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