• PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    10 months ago

    Even if you consider absolutely every part of the USSR not part of modern day Russia a former colony, that’s still an absolutely tiny fraction of the colonizing Spain, France, England, etc did.

    • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      Russia’s colonialism in land amount is comparable to France/England. Anything East of the Urals was never Russia before the 1600s

      of course all of this happened before the USSR and has nothing to do with it, the twitter guy is a moron

      And it’s also undebatable that Siberian Natives were treated better than American ones. Although you can also chalk this up to them having better weapons and disease resistance

      • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Siberian Natives were hit pretty hard by smallpox, but they recovered, because Russian policy was “pay taxes and we’ll fuck off”, not “we’ll kill you all and settle your land”.