• PolandIsAStateOfMind
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    3 days ago

    Outside of strict historical context any usage of the word “Muscovite” came from nazis and cryptonazis, in fact it was pretty easy test to recognize them.

    And it still is like that tbh.

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      2 days ago

      Every time I hear someone say “Moskale” unironically my Hitler particle detector goes off the scale

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        2 days ago

        And correctly, it’s fascism masked by XIX century romantic literature… which was also protofascist so it checks out.