https://twitter.com/shchedri/status/1582730773261873152

During Soviet times, officials would joke: “If you beat a Polish man long enough, he becomes a Russian.”

Same thing.

“Russian” seems as much defined by a shared historic trauma as anything else.

ex: The annihilation of Grozny turned Chechens into Russians. https://t.co/MER9kkyuT9