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    The worst part about this is that it wasn’t a one time sort of thing. The forced relocation was enforced until just before the Soviet Union fell. As a note, every other ethnic group that Stalin forced into relocation were allowed to begin returning home in 1956, but not the Crimean Tatars.

    Stalin also tried to kill them off via famine in the 1920s.

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      This is bad, however, there’s some hope. From wiki,

      Starting in 1967, a few were allowed to return and in 1989 the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union condemned the removal of Crimean Tatars from their motherland as inhumane and lawless, but only a tiny percent were able to return before the full right of return became policy in 1989.

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    The Russians committed so many genocides to natives all over Eurasia you cant even count them…yet no one today cares. There are whole groups of people basically erased because of them

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      Including Circassian genocide in mid 19th century. Some people in North Caucasus (also in Turkey, which received survivors) still try to keep this memory alive. If Kerch bridge survives, maybe one day it could help link Crimea and Circassia. But how far should we go back in history - what about Genghis Khan? The Mongol empire split Kievan Rus - Ivan Grozni would have argued he was fighting back. Now it’s 21st century we need general agreement not to make any empires great again.

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        Everyone killed each other in the past and comitted terrible acts but SOME countries really stand out…

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    Stalin was a big fan of genocide, especially in Ukraine. He also deported all the Jews to Siberia and created a “Jewish Oblast” in the middle of nowhere, the only place Soviet Jews were allowed to live unless they were extremely useful.

    What a colossal bastard. His only benefit was he fought Hitler.

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      And he was perfectly happy to work with Hitler until Hitler betrayed him with Barbarossa. Colossal bastard doesn’t begin to describe what an absolute fuckface he was.

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            Between 2006 and 2009, fewer than 1 percent of mass-casualty events — intentional, violent attacks where four or more victims are killed within a 24-hour period — had a link to extremism. Between 2018 and 2021, more than 5 percent did, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis of two databases from the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism and a collaboration between USA Today, The Associated Press and Northeastern University.1 This data is supported by reports from the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Anti-Defamation League, all of which show a marked increase in violent attacks linked to extremism in recent years.

            Over the last decade and a half, the number of mass-casualty events each year has remained relatively flat. In 2006, for example, there were 38 mass-casualty events in the U.S., resulting in the deaths of 183 people, according to the USA Today/AP/Northeastern database. In 2021, there were 35 events, resulting in the deaths of 172 people; there were also an average of 31 mass-casualty events for each year from 2006 through 2021. Yet despite the total number of mass killings staying static, the number of events with extremist ties has increased, resulting in a higher percentage of extremist-linked mass killings.

            There also has been a rise in the number of extremist-linked violent plots, according to the data from START. When extremists consider violent acts, they don’t always result in mass-casualty events. Sometimes perpetrators are caught by law enforcement before any violence can take place; other times fewer than four people are killed, even if the perpetrator likely intended to harm a greater number of people.

            https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/extremism-mass-casualty-events-shootings

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                Whether or not they’re ‘rookie numbers’, the principle remains. Please do not engage in any sort of atrocity denialism.

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                  Yeah, I should have communicated more clearly. Sorry. I just mean that these aren’t in the same category. Scale, motivations, and government involvement are all totally different. It is a matter of principle. The two are not comparable. Even a little.

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                Certainly, I don’t mean to imply mass shootings are the same or on the same scale as government run murder programs. But mass shootings are still mass murders, and the far right are responsible for the lion’s share.

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      Do you just get a raging boner everytime you see a post and think " I can jam me some politics right up in here"? You people are why the Internet sucks now, if you fell in a pond with a large rock necklace the world would be much happier.

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      Sure, they all voluntarily left their life long homes and sat on top of a train instead of inside.

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      God, I’d hate to see your comments on pictures of Holocaust trains without any guards in the frame.

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        I mean, it’s the Soviet Union. Clearly it wasn’t forced, and if it was, they were reactionaries and deserved to be genocided. /s

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          oh yeah my fucking grandma just LOVED the russian concentration camp after WW2. all the rape and potato peels was like a stay in tahiti, i bet.

          these fucking idiots.

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              Probably a minority opinion but potato peels are far and away the best part. Scrubbing them clean is annoying, especially since they’re cleaned and then re-soiled by the companies packing them, but they have the best taste and highest micronutrient concentration in the potato. Not defending atrocities, just stating a culinary preference in a modern western country. Stalin was awful.

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                no no. y’all really don’t seem to be getting it.

                she would have starved to death in a russian concentration camp if she didn’t sneak potato peels from the trash to stay alive.

                and y’all motherfuckers talking about hurr hurr potato peels are great.

                yeah it’s the fuckin best cuisine in the concentration camp, i bet gordon ramsay would praise its creativity and robust taste.

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                  I apologize, I saw potato peels and decided to share. Given that it wasn’t a direct response to you, I didn’t think you’d take it as one.

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                Are the peels eaten in the east? I remember telling some Eastern European friend that for more recipes I usually keep the peel and eat it and some told something on the lines of that only being possible because in west Europe we ate “Young” potatoes, while they grew them for longer time and the peel becomes thicker and less palatable. It was long ago, might be misremembering

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                  I imagine it has quite a bit to do with the variety of potato grown as russet potato skins can be surprisingly thick and Yukon gold are razor thin. That said, both are delicious when cooked correctly but disgusting otherwise. Russian potatoes look similar to russet potatoes, for all the good that information will do you.

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    Anyone else feel a very distinct narrative being pushed with these last few posts?

    I seem to have touched a nerve.