It’s from 4 years ago, but still works)

It’s not uncommon for Americans to think the world revolves around them.

It is also not uncommon for people interested in politic all over the world to have an opinion about American politics.

Pocketfish did nothing wrong.

Это белошиз порвался, or do you just have a “Russian” friend, my dear loan shark lover?

“…expected to attempt to pressure Beijing…”

…with what, mate?

Same energy.

I like both the Russian tricolor and the Soviet flag, but this child of theirs…it’s cursed.

It’s just an American. Kinda hard to deprogram, when you’re told from birth that Dems are lefties.

Seriously, BBC? You are feigning surprise at religious people in dangerous lines of work?

I suppose that’s why they didn’t raise a stink about military chaplains in Russia - they know the West is way ahead.

Specifically in Ukrainian SSR too, let’s forget about the same famine in Kazakhstan and southern Russia.

Kinda. Also, to be fair, post-Stalin leaders are more to blame than him or Lenin. There were reasons for dealing with national elites at the time (although, I think we could do without creating them where there were none), and Stalin started clamping down on them, but later Soviet leadership just kept flirting and now we have conflicts all over the former USSR territory fueled by nationalism: Georgia/Abkhazia/Ossetia, Azerbaijan/Armenia, Pridnestrovie/Moldova and, of course, Russia/Ukraine. Chechnya was a bit of a different case, but sort of applicable. And there are also balticshits barking in the corner, but they’re irrelevant.

What to learn is a good question. I suppose, to avoid self-determining on the basis of opposition. Ukrainization, for example, was too overzealous with dissociating everything from Russian. Lo and behold, some western meddling later Ukrainian national idea is basically being anti-Russia and even the language is a mess these days with all the forced borrowing from English and shit, just to have as little connection to Russian as possible.

I love you, Vladimir Ilyich, but Korenizatsiia was a mistake…