HomeEuropeReadingRussia “One Russian newspaper this morning reports on a recent study of history textbooks in former Soviet countries: “Russia is portrayed as a colonial state that persecuted people on the territories it incorporated.” Steve Rosenberg for BBCNews
ReadingRussia “One Russian newspaper this morning reports on a recent study of history textbooks in former Soviet countries: “Russia is portrayed as a colonial state that persecuted people on the territories it incorporated.” Steve Rosenberg for BBCNews
October 2, 2024
ReadingRussia “One Russian newspaper this morning reports on a recent study of history textbooks in former Soviet countries: “Russia is portrayed as a colonial state that persecuted people on the territories it incorporated.” Steve Rosenberg for BBCNews
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by BkkGrl
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They’re so close to getting it
Are there statistics on what percentage of Nazi Germany’s propagandists were eventually hanged?
That’s the difference between the West and Russia.
We actually teach ourselves about our colonial past. We don’t try to 1984 it all away and act like we were always peaceful angels.
Whats wrong in it? Russia is telling the truth.
I am Polish and yes, it’s true, Russia treated us as colony, mined uranium in our mountains and was doing executions on our people, was imprisoning them and sending them to Siberia, also there is massacre of our officers in Katyń (they blamed Germans for this).
Wow, finally Russia is telling the truth
I despise Russia.
Is Steve Rosenberg still in Russia? I hate to think that if Russia needs to return some hitman home, he could be one of the guys they exchange for that hitman.
It seems there is a common misconception regarding colonialism among Russians. Basically it goes down to “we have built infrastructure and factories in these countries – and so it was not a colonialism”. Yet the same applies to British colonization of India – and it was still undoubtedly a colonization. The colonization isn’t always simply robbing the colonized nation poor and keeping them in slavery. It is implementing the policies to support and benefit the colonizer first and furthermost, yes some of these examples were more cruel (as in example of the Belgian Congo) and some are less but that core principle was always the same.
Why do Russians still refer to some west europeans as “anglo-saxons”?
Estonia and Latvia were slightly wealthier than Finland just before the Soviet occupation, yet **a dozen times poorer** than Finland by the end of the Soviet occupation. Not to mention all the ethnic cleansing.
***Gee, I wonder why***
I am currently reading Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands. People often cannot understand why Poles said that Germans were better than Russians. The answer is easy to find in this book. Germans were brutal murderers, but their motives, although extremely immoral, were still possible to understand. Russians were absolutely insane, unpredictable and barbaric towards everyone, including their own people.
Persecuted is too soft for what happened, makes the horrors sound like a walk in the park
I genuinely believe if usa got involved in russo-ukraine war it matter of hours Kremlin would surrender
I thought there is no free press in Russia and everything Russian is a propaganda…hmmm
14 comments
They’re so close to getting it
Are there statistics on what percentage of Nazi Germany’s propagandists were eventually hanged?
That’s the difference between the West and Russia.
We actually teach ourselves about our colonial past. We don’t try to 1984 it all away and act like we were always peaceful angels.
Whats wrong in it?
Russia is telling the truth.
I am Polish and yes, it’s true, Russia treated us as colony, mined uranium in our mountains and was doing executions on our people, was imprisoning them and sending them to Siberia, also there is massacre of our officers in Katyń (they blamed Germans for this).
Wow, finally Russia is telling the truth
I despise Russia.
Is Steve Rosenberg still in Russia? I hate to think that if Russia needs to return some hitman home, he could be one of the guys they exchange for that hitman.
It seems there is a common misconception regarding colonialism among Russians. Basically it goes down to “we have built infrastructure and factories in these countries – and so it was not a colonialism”. Yet the same applies to British colonization of India – and it was still undoubtedly a colonization. The colonization isn’t always simply robbing the colonized nation poor and keeping them in slavery. It is implementing the policies to support and benefit the colonizer first and furthermost, yes some of these examples were more cruel (as in example of the Belgian Congo) and some are less but that core principle was always the same.
Why do Russians still refer to some west europeans as “anglo-saxons”?
Estonia and Latvia were slightly wealthier than Finland just before the Soviet occupation, yet **a dozen times poorer** than Finland by the end of the Soviet occupation. Not to mention all the ethnic cleansing.
***Gee, I wonder why***
I am currently reading Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands. People often cannot understand why Poles said that Germans were better than Russians. The answer is easy to find in this book. Germans were brutal murderers, but their motives, although extremely immoral, were still possible to understand. Russians were absolutely insane, unpredictable and barbaric towards everyone, including their own people.
Persecuted is too soft for what happened, makes the horrors sound like a walk in the park
I genuinely believe if usa got involved in russo-ukraine war it matter of hours Kremlin would surrender
I thought there is no free press in Russia and everything Russian is a propaganda…hmmm