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cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/33029459
cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/33029458
“Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilization itself, but the disease that plagued pharaohs now belongs to its history," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Colonialism is one hell of a drug.
USSR wasn’t exactly a perfect state or even a state where justice prevails, but it wasn’t colonial. There were a couple of times when it behaved like a colonial power (e.g. Czechoslovakia 1968), but in general it did what NATO does to Ukraine right now.
Russian colonialism is older than the USSR.