Over in Eastern Europe it has been known for a while (read: centuries) that the russian state weaponizes rape and torture of women and children. I dont mean, "oh war is terrible and leads to rape and torture," I mean, "the russian state specifically weaponizes the rape and torture of women and children."
The idea is to demoralize the native populations and spread their "superior" russian blood.
Source: am Polish-born American. My fellow Slavs have villified the russian state especially despite having a long history warring with many many more enemies.
Yeah, it's funny how just about every nation that shares a border with Russia or was ever under their control hates their fucking guts.
I'm Finnish, and a significant proportion of my family tree (Ingrian Finns) got genocided by them in the early to mid-ish 20th century. I'm on the middle aged side and I'm the first person in my family for over 100 years who hasn't had to either live under their occupation, fight them, or dodge the Soviet Control Commission's stooges because somebody in the family fought them.
Unsurprisingly this is also why I absolutely detest people who idolize the Soviet Union, despite being a leftist (although I'm sure somebody will come to tell me how it's all just imperialist propaganda and I'm not really a leftist)
Fucking! Preach!
This is my experience as a Polish-American. There was nothing leftist about the USSR. Breadlines, famine, genocide, blaming us for their tanks in Prague, etc. are not leftist policy. In fact, theyre kinda the fucking opposite.
Theres very good reason why us Slavs hate their shitty state, its 800 years of imperialism, their insistence that they are our big brother, their misinfo/disinfo that theyve always weaponized, and their constant claims that all the rest of us have less claim to our own countries than they do. As if Poland wasnt 200 years older, anyway.
(although I’m sure somebody will come to tell me how it’s all just imperialist propaganda and I’m not really a leftist)
And ironically, in doing so, they will support the imperialism of Russia/the USSR. There's a group of people who claim to hate imperialism but will vehemently defend it if it's done by a US rival or enemy.
Over in Eastern Europe it has been known for a while (read: centuries) that the russian state weaponizes rape and torture of women and children. I dont mean, "oh war is terrible and leads to rape and torture," I mean, "the russian state specifically weaponizes the rape and torture of women and children."
The idea is to demoralize the native populations and spread their "superior" russian blood.
Source: am Polish-born American. My fellow Slavs have villified the russian state especially despite having a long history warring with many many more enemies.
Yeah, it's funny how just about every nation that shares a border with Russia or was ever under their control hates their fucking guts.
I'm Finnish, and a significant proportion of my family tree (Ingrian Finns) got genocided by them in the early to mid-ish 20th century. I'm on the middle aged side and I'm the first person in my family for over 100 years who hasn't had to either live under their occupation, fight them, or dodge the Soviet Control Commission's stooges because somebody in the family fought them.
Unsurprisingly this is also why I absolutely detest people who idolize the Soviet Union, despite being a leftist (although I'm sure somebody will come to tell me how it's all just imperialist propaganda and I'm not really a leftist)
Fucking! Preach!
This is my experience as a Polish-American. There was nothing leftist about the USSR. Breadlines, famine, genocide, blaming us for their tanks in Prague, etc. are not leftist policy. In fact, theyre kinda the fucking opposite.
Theres very good reason why us Slavs hate their shitty state, its 800 years of imperialism, their insistence that they are our big brother, their misinfo/disinfo that theyve always weaponized, and their constant claims that all the rest of us have less claim to our own countries than they do. As if Poland wasnt 200 years older, anyway.
And ironically, in doing so, they will support the imperialism of Russia/the USSR. There's a group of people who claim to hate imperialism but will vehemently defend it if it's done by a US rival or enemy.