quick reminder that everything russia’s doing to ukraine isn’t new. there were 170 governmental bans on ukrainian language in the last 150 years. most of ukrainian writers from the basic school literature curriculum were murdered or oppressed for speaking out for ukraine. an average person doesn’t have to know executed renaissance or slovo house or the ems ukaz or forced russification or literally hundreds of similar precedents, but please do note that this all was a thing long before putin
Russia has this weird confederate-esque sense of entitlement to determining the fates of Eastern European peoples, like it believes living under the Russian boot is their natural and normal condition. Poles, Balts, Ukrainians, Romanians, etc.
This is why seemingly every incarnation of the Russian state has found its own justification for its oppression of the same peoples, regardless of its self declared ideology. The Russian Empire oppressed them to bring them Russian civilization. The Soviet Union oppressed them to free the working class and fight the capitalists. The Russian Federation oppresses them because they’re actually just confused Russians.
It’s a deep, ingrained racism going back hundreds of years. And it’s disgusting to see how so many on this site defend it.
amhrancas 