I really kicked the hornet’s nest with this 😁

I live in Europe, love the place, but Americans are obsessed with spicy food.

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Unless we’re talking about the Midwest US or something, only Asia comes close.

Could be even more mild - European Extra Spicy

Glad you’re focused on how they shipped more resources to moscow and leningrad instead of the human impact. Tells a lot about you.

Here’s just Estonia: SOVIET REPRESSION AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES IN ESTONIA

Before Soviet occupation:

Population of Estonia: ~1.13 million

Ethnic Estonians: ~1.0 million (~88%)

Ethnic Russians: ~90,000 (~8%)

Soviet repression:

People deported from Estonia: ~50,000

June 1941 mass deportation: ~10,000

March 1949 mass deportation: ~20,000–21,000

Men forcibly mobilized and transported into the USSR in 1941: ~32,000–34,000

People murdered, imprisoned, or deported by the Soviet regime: more than 75,000

Identified victims who were killed or died in imprisonment/forced resettlement and never returned: more than 22,000

By 1989, near the end of Soviet occupation:

Population of Estonia: ~1.57 million

Ethnic Estonians: ~963,000 (61.5%)

Ethnic Russians: ~475,000 (~30%)

Ukrainians: ~48,000

Belarusians: ~28,000

Demographic change:

Ethnic Russian population increased from ~90,000 to ~475,000

Net increase in ethnic Russian population: ~385,000

Estonian share of the population fell from ~88% to 61.5%

Despite nearly 50 years passing, there were slightly fewer ethnic Estonians living in Estonia in 1989 than before Soviet occupation.

This isn’t some Russo phobia or anti communism thing. What they have done is fucking awful and anyone who spews some bullshit about NATO expanding and threatening russia can go fuck themselves. Russia represents an existential threat to its neighbors and it has no one to blame for that sentiment besides itself.

It “had to create work for everybody”? By deporting native people from their land and replacing them with russians? That sounds normal to you?

Without offering new land? russia straight up stole the land from these people and gave them to russians in the name of their fake communism which just meant shipping resources to moscow as the expense of the countries they illegally occupied.

Well with the USSR, countries were occupied, countless people murdered and exiled, families destroyed, and forcefully replaced with russians who would influence the future of their states forever.

What the USSR did with russification is just like what the israelies are doing in the west bank with their “settlers”. The USSR was an imperialist colonizer and was fucking awful; not some heroic response to the west.

Don’t forget all the russification brought to eastern Europe by the bullshit imperalist Soviet union.