• dronarnia@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      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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        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…