“The Slavic peoples, on the contrary, are not destined for their own life. They know this, and we do not have to convince them that they can do it too. We created the Baltic countries and Ukraine in 1918”
“The Slavic peoples, on the contrary, are not destined for their own life. They know this, and we do not have to convince them that they can do it too. We created the Baltic countries and Ukraine in 1918”
Did the Bolsheviks not cede vast swaths of their Western territories to withdraw from World War I? Were these territories not occupied by German troops?
Key words: cede and occupied. The cultural and ethnical make up of the people inhabiting these territories did not appear out of thin air.
But were the creation of these superstructures not facilitated and masterminded by the Germans? And then, did Lithuanian and Ukrainian ultranationalists not collaborate with Nazi Germany? The only other option if those statements are false are that Lithuanians and Ukrainians are genetically inclined towards Nazism, which is false and nonsensical.
Not sure how that notion appears in what I’ve said.
Not necessarily from what I know of history. Russian Empire had plenty of issues with subjects and national questions.