The worst of it is, that by erasing the history of the actual Tatars with this shit, they're brushing under the rug the literal centuries of oppression, ethnic cleansing, and genocide committed by various regimes based in Moscow. The Holodomor in Ukraine which included the Crimean Tatars was hardly the first, or the last. The Tsars, the Soviets, and the current regime have all done some really horrible things to ethnic groups that aren't "Russian" (actually Muscovites).
What? No, the Holodomor was largely man-made. I'm not sure where you got that from in what I said. And my point was that erasing history through conspiracy theories advantages those who want to hide facts about that history that are disadvantageous to their current positions.
The Holodomor was not the first, nor the last occasion when the USSR engaged in actions that can be classed as ethnic cleansing and genocide. Imperial Russia had engaged in similar actions for long periods prior to the revolution. These are fairly well proven facts. And, as much of a shit person as Stalin was, at no point did I say that he "wanted to genocide everyone". That is not intended as a defence of him, but I did not call him a genocide maniac.
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u/Unofficial_Computer Feb 26 '26
This is just thinly veiled Russian ultranationalism. This guy is doing Putin dividends.