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The more I learn about #history of the Soviet Union, the more I realize just how much my native #Ukraine was actively stifled, prevented from developing and innovating, and forced into this image of a backwards and hopeless nation.

Our people have always been so phenomenal, talented, ambitious, kind, and creative. But they’ve been punished, scared, and intimidated into a terrible subservient existence for so many decades and centuries.

I love Ukraine, but god history is unfair.

#history #Ukraine
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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Not only Ukraine. I've just finished a book about how parts of modern China were devastated and terrorized by communists. Red plague and brown plague are basically the same.
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Mariya Delano
Mariya Delano
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@menelion oh yeah. So so so many places.

I focus on learning about Ukraine because well I’ve got a personal interest.

But there are similar stories all around the previously Soviet countries, China, North Korea, and so many others.

@André Polykanine
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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Well, I'm also Ukrainian, but still it's relevant for all of our poor planet. So many peoples oppressed, exiled, terrorized, murdered, just horrible.
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Mariya Delano
Mariya Delano
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@menelion oh I didn’t realize! Героям слава ☺️

Yes - fully agree. I love learning about history but god my heart hurts for so many people who needlessly suffer…

@André Polykanine
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victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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@menelion To be fair, this abuse / subducation against Ukrainians by Russians has been in existence for nearly 350 years. Stalin has taken it to the extreme by making some evil-clever steps, i.e. destroying as much intellgentsia as possible, starving people and destroying the much of the cultural back-bone, including literature, language and, most importantly, the sense of self-identity.
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