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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think it's a cheap pivot at all. If you want to say "look at all these places where the people there wanted freedom!" While completely ignoring that they were violently surpressing those same scenarios within their own annexed territories? That's just willful blindness.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How familiar are you with, for example, Estonian nationalism? How familiar are you with its treatment within the USSR? These were not at all the same conditions as, say, Algeria.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

My grandmother died in a Siberian labour camp for being an academic.