• lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    The indigenous peoples of Northern Asia (to avoid the colonial term Siberia) who were bereaved of their culture and forced into sedentism and the logic of work days and work weeks by the Bolsheviks would like to have a word. But that’s “developing underdeveloped groups”. It’s only bad when the West is doing the same thing.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      9 days ago

      The west doesn’t at all do the same thing, it completely eradicates massive swaths of people via massive genocidal campaigns, enslaves survivors, and uses this as fuel to colonize the global south. The soviets focusing on industrial development and therefore improving the quality of life, life expectancies, and more of the various peoples in the soviet union while preserving their ethnic identities and cultures is astronomically different.

      Your comment is borderline genocide denial.