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Did you know that Lenin carved out the modern state of Ukraine out of respect for ethnic diversity and regional independence?
Don't you think it's kind of racist for the developers to reach into the past and project their hatred of Putin onto the old Soviet Union?
People like Stepan Bandera felt differently than Lenin about ethnic diversity. He preferred to cleanse Jews, Roma, and Russians from his land when the Nazis passed through Ukraine in WWII.
And the Ukrainian nationalists which fractured the country in 2014 happen to be his biggest fans.
Crazy to skip over WW2 on that Wikipedia artivle I'd call the Nazis killing several million Ukrainians (include a million odd Ukrainian Jews) a form of language suppression.
'The Holodomor' is a Neonazi propaganda buzzword invented in the 80s to equivocate between the USSR and the Third Reich, specifically chosen to imply similarity to the Holocaust which in turn is a form of Holocaust minimization. The origin of the 'intentional famine' myth was literally Joseph fucking Goebbels, and was spread by the media empire of avowed fascist William Randolph Hearst.
Here's what a die-hard Ukrainian nationalist had to say about the famine of 1932:
@[email protected] reported this comment lmao.
@[email protected] isn't it in bad taste to report the post as opposed to arguing relevance or refuting the point or something? Seems a bit weaselly for my sensibilities
Hahahahahahah oh please reddit gods help me
Let's put that aside though, what the fuck does the famine, even if it was man-made (it wasn't) have to do with language repression?