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the time to decolonize and retire “post-soviet” in regard of former r*ssian colonies is way overdue.
#russianColonialism https://twitter.com/shamemovement/status/1636489931068514305

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when foreigners casually drop ‘bombing of kyiv’ these pics always come to mind. this is what #RussianColonialism did to chechnya and grozny when they tried to leave the empire in 2000. a war crime of horrific scale, but the rest of the world was like ‘meh’, so moscow continued

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when foreigners casually drop ‘bombing of kyiv’ these pics always come to mind. this is what #RussianColonialism did to chechnya and grozny when they tried to leave the empire in 2000. a war crime of horrific scale, but the rest of the world was like ‘meh’, so moscow continued

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2015. syria is about to kick out a tyrant and get rid of a key #russianColonialism military base. moscow sends troops to carpet bomb and mass murder civilians - all to stop 'imminent genocide.' 600,000 killed, 7 million displaced
https://syriaaccountability.org/accountability-for-russian-crimes-in-syria-and-ukraine/

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2014. ukraine kicks out a pro-#russianColonialism kleptocratic regime. kremlin decides to punish it, creates false disinfo narrative about ethnic strife, finances pro-russian paramilitary, sends troops to create breakaway stateless and annex crimea
https://en.hromadske.ua/posts/in-east-ukraine-locals-and-aid-agencies-struggle-through-wars-fourth-year

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2008. georgia kicks out a pro-#russianColonialism kleptocratic regime, moves towards rejoining with europe. kremlin decides to punish it. moscow uses disinfo to fabricate claims about 'imminent genocide', invades and occupies 20% of the territory
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-georgia-2008-war/29415590.html

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1934-43. indigenous nation of nenets tries to leave #russianColonialism after centuries of exploitation, cultural erasure. moscow deploys troops and machine guns. surviving rebels are arrested, and many are tortured to death
https://www.academia.edu/479640/Two_Wars_in_Conflict_Resistance_among_Nenets_Reindeer_Herders_in_the_1940s_2005_

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1918-22. karelia launches anti-#russianColonialism. uprising. moscow lies it is a foreign incursion, invades, bans democratically-elected assembly, creates a puppet govt. hundreds slaughtered, approx 30,000 became refugees, local language/culture banned
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Karelian_uprising

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1918-24. indigenous evenks people leave #russianColonialism amid mass terror and cultural erasure. moscow lures the repunlic into ceasefire with fake autonomy promises, then mass slaughteres the leadership
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungus_Republic

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1931-33. indigenous nation of khanty tries to leave #russianColonialism after centuries of exploitation, cultural erasure. moscow drowns anti-colonial uprising in blood, decimating local indigenous villages with aircraft artillery and machine guns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazym_rebellion

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1917-43. the indigenous nation of kalmyks leaves #russianColonialism, joins anti-colonial coalition of ukrainian cossack and northern caucasian states. moscow invades, punishes kalmyks with controlled starvation, deports entire nation killing every third
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/kalmykia-s-long-goodbye/

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1917-37. indigenous nation of buryats leaves #russianColonialism. russians infiltrate buryat-mongolia government, stoke divide, disband it. moscow occupies the state to “civilize it out of feudalism.” tens of thousands are slaughtered, become refugees
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Buryat-Mongolia

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1917-20. ukrainians of don/kuban’ leave #russianColonialism, set up democracies. russians stoke internal political/ethnic divisions, assassinate political leadership, invade to 'protect iteself.' moscow ethnically cleanses and russifies the region
https://babel.ua/en/texts/76760-104-year-ago-kuban-people-s-republic-declared-its-independence-from-russia-and-for-several-times-tried-to-unite-with-ukraine-as-a-result-bolsheviks-captured-everyone-here-s-its-story

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1917-44. indigenous nation of crimean tatars leaves #russianColonialism, set up the 2nd-ever muslim democracy. moscow invades 'to protect opposition,' executes 33-yo president numan çelebicihan. genocide, deportations kill every 2nd crimean tatar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_People's_Republic

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1917-24. georgia leaves #russianColonialism. moscow stages ethnic violence and invades to ‘protect itself.’ russians execute thousands, deport 20,000+ in ethnic cleansing
https://civil.ge/archives/397042/amp
https://georgianjournal.ge/society/32243-february-25-1921-heroic-georgians-who-fought-against-russias-red-army.html

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1917-45. north caucasus leaves #russianColonialism. moscow stages ethnic violence, invades to ‘stop it.’ russians deploy series of genocides and mass deportations in the following two decades killing hundreds of thousands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountainous_Republic_of_the_Northern_Caucasus