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      Russia is the only colonial power that never even formally gave independence to its colonies. They are still officially part of Russia and have always been exploited even tho in different ways under the tsar, the bolsheviks and now in post bolshevik times.

      Never forget that Russia ends at the Ural, everything east of it are land colonies. Oppressed too much to fight for independence.

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        Never forget that Russia ends at the Ural,

        South “russia” was also colonized after native populations were exterminated. But that’s just me being pedantic, don’t need to over load the audience

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          I think all nation states have stories like this to a degree which doesn’t make it ok obviously. Some argue that nation states are internalized colonialism. But the real reason I stick to my version is that it’s more catchy. We need narratives to boil things down for the beginning and later we can say “actually it’s even worse”

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    PROTIP: to any denialists for the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians, you can fuck right off, this comm isn’t for your kind

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    The cope is that a free Palestine would be a Marxist-Leninist People’s Republic, or at least a honorary one like Iran or Afghanistan.

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    Hey that’s not fair to the Only Democracy in the Middle East™! They sometimes also have liberal governments oppressing Muslims!