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> People of russia are almost irreversibly becoming the new 'nazis'

Is this really "new"? It's like you never heard about Stalinism, or even earlier: Leninism. Starting from 1920 war Bolsheviks tried to invade Poland; they starved millions in Ukraine in holodomor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor ), they backstabbed Poland in 1939 only to "free" it, just like they "freed" rest of Eastern Europe. Later they crushed the Czech uprising in 1956 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring )...

Not to mention millions who died in gulags.

It's like history 101. High school level stuff. You really never heard about it earlier?

The cycle is described in the old cartoon: https://twitter.com/theeconomist/status/447387748748759040

1956 is Hungarian Uprising, Prague Spring is 1968. They also did tons of vile stuff in the Baltics.

Russian imperialism goes much further back too, e.g. Partitions of Poland, colonization of Caucasus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland

Sadly, the way high school curricula are set up in many countries doesn't leave much time for 20th century history, so only a rough outline of post-war events is taught. As for more recent history, there has been almost no research (or even awareness) of Russian imperialism in Western academia until now (gee, wonder why)...

I haven't been completely unaware of those and other things. But vast majority of my history classes and bringing up focused on nazi germany being the sole responsible for everything WW2 and how we beat them. And then soviets being the commies and the enemy of the free world. And then the wall came down and everything was swell again.

So yes, I have been ignorant. Of which I am sorry. I may be late in the game, but let's put it out a loud: where are the russians living outside of russia that are protesting against russias war on Ukraine?

> where are the russians living outside of russia that are protesting against russias war on Ukraine?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Russia_Legion

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