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    22 days ago

    When you’re dealing with the Soviet Union (which I remember as an actual nation, not just a line item in a history book) you were dealing with a nation that hid a phenomenal amount of abuse to any and every ethnicity that wasn’t actual Rus. To this day, my father’s family can not get information on our ancestry from Russia because of my ancestors ethnicity.

    Read up on the Holodomor.

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        21 days ago

        I guess the questio then is, what should be done to change history? Vote Democratic? Admit it happened?Yeah, I’m down with it… but what do you want from making this post? What have you discovered that others in the past have not? It’s like there’s all this finger pointing, but WHAT is the thing that the finger pointers want from this?