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Me when people are cheering on Iran, a country that literally executes gay people (lemmy.world)
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reminds me of the irony that the country that turned the tide against Nazism was the country that killed, displaced, and imprisoned almost the whole indigenous population.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ... Russia did that? I don't recall

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Have you ever seen a map of Russia? You think a country gets that big peacefully? Look up the income disparity between the Moscow / St. P west of Russia vs the vast majority.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    The Russian Empire didn't genocide the entirety of the continent in pursuit of a white ethnostate, unlike the US. Surely it did harrowing stuff because, I mean, medieval regimes, but as of today, Russia is vastly more diverse than the US, and it has many regions with non-slavic ethnicities constituting a majority: think Yakut, Tatars, Mari, Chechen...

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