• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 months ago

    Russia’s problem is that they’ve never been hit with a genocide themselves

    Haven’t they hit themselves with genocides about half a dozen times or so in their history…?

    “And then things got worse” and all that…

    Or do you only get a free pass if the genocide wasn’t self inflicted…?

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      3 months ago

      They ironically got hit with a genocide from the same people who did it to the Jews. Twenty-seven million dead at the hands of the nazis.

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        3 months ago

        That wasn’t a genocide, though, at least on the Nazis’ part, it was just war… (now, Stalin deciding who to send to that meat grinder could have been a tad genocidal, but if I recall correctly they practically ended up sending anyone available, so probably not…)

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          3 months ago

          The majority of the deaths were civilians.

          But if you want to get hyper-technical, communists were among those sent to the camps in Hitler’s purges.

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      3 months ago

      Genociding yourself is an internal matter, even if you invade first so it becomes part of your country and then start the genociding.

      Naming no names. You know who