RT @HoansSolo: rejected Stalin’s territorial demands in October 1939. N. Krushchev noted that the mood in the Soviet Politburo at the time was that “all we had to do was raise our voice a little bit and the Finns would obey. If that didn’t work, we could fire one shot and the Finns would…

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Russian Oligarchs have become synonymous with superyachts, luxury mansions and the shady political maneuvering of post-Soviet Russia. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian billionaires like Roman Abramovich, Vladimir Potanin, Alisher Usmanov, Boris Berezovsky and Oleg Deripaska have been all over the news.

The word Oligarch conjures up images of opportunistic, well-connected businessmen who made billions by plundering the remains of the collapsed Soviet state. But how exactly did Russia’s oligarchs get so rich?

1. The Latin alphabet is Russian.

2. Columbus was a Russian.

3. Genghis Khan was a Russin.

Bonus: South America was discovered and colonized by the Russians.

As Putin’s deputy Kirienko told in 2017, “Russian state is not based on treaties”. Treaty is a restraint on the Tsar’s power, a condition he abides to committ. That’s a dishonour and he breaks treaty at the first chance.

Sergey Kiriyenko

Of course, even among the Russian people there are some who do not share this attitude. It is only to be regretted that they have not been able to prevail over their compatriots. Ever since Russia was first in a position to exercise an influence on European politics, it has continually behaved like a robber who lies in wait for the moment when he can pounce upon his victim and plunder him of his possessions. At no time did the Russian Czars acknowledge any other limits to the expansion of their empire than those dictated by the force of circumstances. The position of the Bolsheviks in regard to the problem of the territorial expansion of their dominions is not a whit different. They too acknowledge no other rule than that, in the conquest of new lands, one may and indeed must go as far as one dares, with due regard to one’s resources. The fortunate circumstance that saved civilization from being destroyed by the Russians was the fact that the nations of Europe were strong enough to be able successfully to stand off the onslaught of the hordes of Russian barbarians. The experiences of the Russians in the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, and the Turkish campaign of 1877-78 showed them that, in spite of the great number of their soldiers, their army is unable to seize the offensive against Europe. The World War merely confirmed this.

from
Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition
3. Liberal Foreign Policy

https://mises.org/library/liberalism-classical-tradition/html/p/48

https://realtimehistory.net/blogs/news/new-from-the-great-war-the-actual-history-of-ukrainian-independence

Russians colonial imperialism never went trough decolonisation as others did. Just painted itself red and denied its existance.

Russia 🇷🇺 wanted to do to Ukraine 🇺🇦, what Muscovy did in the 16th Century to Novgorod, a thriving city-state drifting, culturally, economically, aesthetically westward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Novgorod

It’s been their basis for their successful expansion for centuries. They have already failed.

Map of Ukraine published in Bern in 1919 and currently stored in the Slavic Seminar library at the University of Bazel, Switzerland. (Credit: Serhiy Kudelia). #Ukraine #kyivrus

Kind of like in Bucha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_Soviet_occupation_of_Poland

https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1507100315581100034

Since at least 300 years, Russia tried to eliminate Ukrainian national identity, focusing mostly on Ukrainian language and culture. In 1720, Russian Emperor Peter the Great ordered to destroy all theological books printed in Ukrainian language.

In 1760s, Russian Empress Catherine II (actually an icon for infamous Angela Merkel) instructed Count Vyazemsky to develop a program of russification of Ukraine: “so they start to feel Russian and forget the idea to leave us”.

In 1862, over 100 Ukrainian sunday schools were closed. In 1863, Russian minister of internal affairs Valuyev issues a “Valuer Circular” stating that Ukrainian language “has never existed, does not exist and cannot exist”. Compare this to modern Putin’s statements.

In 1876 Russian emperor Alexander II issues the “Ems decree” banning Ukrainian language from almost every part of life.
The Ems Decree banned:
– any import of any book in Ukrainian;
– any print of any book in Ukrainian, except of some historical documents
– Any theater plays in Ukrainian;
– Print of any libretto, songs etc. in Ukrainian;
– Any public declamation in Ukrainian;

The Ems Decree ordered:
– To purge schools from any books in Ukrainian;
– To check political views of every teacher in Ukraine and create lists of pro-Ukrainian teachers. Those teachers should be fired and/or removed to Russian regions from Ukraine;
– To ban Ukrainian scientists/authors Dragomanov and Chubinsky from living in Ukraine.

Ukrainian poets were prosecuted. Pavlo Hrabovsky was arrested in 1885 with his wife Nadia Sigida, after a typography was seized in their house.

Pavlo was sent to Siberia, where he died in 1902, and Nadia to Kara, on Arctic Ocean, where she committed suicide after being tortured

The icon of Ukrainian poetry Taras Shevchenko was sent as a soldier (a typical punishment in Tsarist Russia) to Siberia and Kazakhstan, it was forbidden for him to paint and to write poems (he secretly did both, leaving beautiful poems and graphics, incl. ones of RU violence)

In the Soviet Union, the language politics was different during different times. After a short period of “korenizatsiya” (support of Ukrainian language as a tool of fighting old Tsarist elites), the USSR came back to traditional oppression of Ukrainians and their culture.

Ukrainian language was declared a “lesser brother” of Russian, with Russian language as the dominant one. Ukrainian language was reformed in order to russify it. Certain letters were abolished (ґ), vocative case was declared “not necessary” (there is no vocative in Russian)

Many scientific words existing in Ukrainian were canceled and substituted by Russian ones. Later this was used by Russians to “prove” that Ukraine does not have its own scientific tradition. For example, the name for quicksilver, Ursa Major constellation etc. were changed.

Those who tried to preserve national traditions, were prosecuted. In 1972, 14 students and artists were arrested by KGB in Lviv for participating in non-political celebration of Christmas accord. to Ukrainian national tradition: with songs, costumes etc.

As a result of the whole “Operation Block” KGB had arrested nearly 90 persons. Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus was one of those who were targeted. He spent 5 years in Soviet camp, and after he returned home, he was arrested again – and died (was killed) in Siberian camp in 1985.

Daily atrocities against Ukrainian language continued. I will not go into details after the fall of the USSR in this thread, but it is illustrative, that even 30 years after the USSR, Ukrainian national IDs used to have a page in Russian with a translation of names into Russian!

Have a look: this Ukrainian citizen was born 1 year after the collapse of the USSR. He has his Ukrainian ID issued approximately in 2008. Still, there is a page in Russian, where his Ukrainian name Yevhen is “translated” into Russian as “Yevgeny”.

This is clearly the consequence of centuries of oppression and traumatisation. That is why I am absolutely not surprised that Russian occupiers hunt libraries and destroy books. Because for them it is a very natural way of destroying Ukraine – the way they go since 1720 at least.

He should have also mentioned the mass murder of Ukrainian mistrals during Soviet Times.

The Democratic Bloc in parliament performed this song on August 24, 1991, immediately after they voted for Ukrainian independence

art

In the 1830’s French traveler Marquis de Custine speculated about Russians cruelly avenging their inferiority. #Bucha

It’s inconceivable to much of the Russian psyche that Ukraine is independent. (And to the Ukrainian psyche, that we aren’t.)

Excerpts by Casey Michel: https://twitter.com/cjcmichel/status/1506317658001588231

Right before his death, Andropov began putting together plans to completely change the internal structure of the USSR—scrapping national territories, and creating states organized around “population and economic rationale”.

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