Explanation: Forced assimilation and cultural genocide were common pastimes for European powers in the 18th-20th centuries. Some people pretend that Russia, a transcontinental empire with a systemic policy of mass ethnic cleansing and deportations, was different in this regard, and refuse any attempt to examine Russian atrocities as a form of cultural chauvinism or ideological bias - especially strange considering that said atrocities were committed under both a far-right monarchist regime and a left-wing authoritarian regime.
especially strange considering that said atrocities were committed under both a far-right monarchist regime and a left-wing authoritarian regime.
That makes me think of:
[…] I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. - W.E.B. Dubois
Explanation: Forced assimilation and cultural genocide were common pastimes for European powers in the 18th-20th centuries. Some people pretend that Russia, a transcontinental empire with a systemic policy of mass ethnic cleansing and deportations, was different in this regard, and refuse any attempt to examine Russian atrocities as a form of cultural chauvinism or ideological bias - especially strange considering that said atrocities were committed under both a far-right monarchist regime and a left-wing authoritarian regime.
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