• PolandIsAStateOfMind
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    Occupational hazards of hereditary monarchy (and historically such hazard was super low chance). Note they don’t cry about children dying from hunger because their parents died in Bloody Nicky wars or got murdered by Bloody Nicky cossacks, or in pogroms insipred by Bloody Nicky and so on and on and on.

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      The best response that you’ll get from anticommunists is the same one when somebody reminds them of Imperial America’s horrific atrocities: the most half‐assed condemnation possible. ‘Huh? Oh, um, yeah, that’s, uh… bad… too… I guess…’

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      so strange that none of those starved kids ever got a feature film made about them by Don Bluth eighty years later