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Posted on 12/29/2022 4:19:13 AM PST by C19fan
Council workers in a Ukrainian port city have torn down a monument to Russian empress Catherine the Great after a public vote to get rid of it.
The statue of Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great, was erected in 1900 in Odessa to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the city's founding.
The local authority organized an online vote on the fate of the monument.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
No its just you that is ignorant. Catherine turned her attention to organizing and strengthening a system that she herself had condemned as inhuman. She imposed serfdom on the Ukrainians who had until then been free.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-the-Great
So Ukraine would rather have been ruled by the Turks?
Maybe part of the Great Reset is the destruction of culture and history.
Remember those Bible clingers?…
Confederate soldiers?
Spanish explorers?
They could have President Dr. Oz now…
How were peasants treated when Ukraine was under the thumb of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
Yup... But they probably needed serfdom and she needed wheat.
They were likely treated like most peasants are... Badly!
You left off 19th century white male mathematicians and 20th century white male physicists.
It’s pretty much all white males of history.
Wouldn’t want those non whites getting their feelings hurt…
Catherine imposed serfdom in ALL parts of Ukraine, areas where the peasants were free, in the former Cossack Hetmanate.
During the reign of Catherine II of Russia, the Cossack Hetmanate's autonomy was progressively destroyed. After several earlier attempts, the office of hetman was finally abolished by the Russian government in 1764, and his functions were assumed by the Little Russian Collegium, thus fully incorporating the Hetmanate into the Russian Empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossack_Hetmanate
Well, not FREE free. Slaves as a matter of fact.
Ukrainian past: Turkish sultan's harem was once full of kidnapped ... The Ottoman Turkish Empire on the other side has always been the largest buyer and old customer of the slave trade of the Crimean Khanate. In the one hundred and fifty years between 1500 and 1650 alone, more than one million Orthodox Slavs (mostly Ukrainians) were sold across the Ottoman Empire, according to tax records from Kaffa.
Let's face it, the whole region, russians, uses, and turks are a garbage people. We should let them all kill each other. The world will be better off. Good riddance.
This is not an easy call. We have seen attempts to erase history in our own country. It’s a very disturbing trend.
On the other hand, Catherine was a Russian monarch. And Ukraine is no longer part of Russia. In a way, it would be like Virginia taking down an old statue of Queen Anne during the War of 1812.
Quite understandable.
The Hetmanate had free peasants and before Catherine an autonomous region under the Russian protectorate. During the reign of Catherine II of Russia, the Cossack Hetmanate's autonomy was progressively destroyed. After several earlier attempts, the office of hetman was finally abolished by the Russian government in 1764, and his functions were assumed by the Little Russian Collegium, thus fully incorporating the Hetmanate into the Russian Empire.
So that is where the phrase "white trash" comes from!
Except for all those uke slaves.
The Ukrainians and Americans don’t know and don’t care. If we had any historical perspective at all, we would never have had anything to do with this conflict.
But then, it was never about the “conflict,” real or imagined, but about protecting the interests of the Biden crime family and the leftist EU through strategic media use of their corrupt, idiot-puppet Zelensky. Backed up with billions of our money and the clearly disposable lives of thousands of Ukrainians.
I see that Blackrock is already working on a multi-billion dollar deal for “rebuilding” the Ukraine once they feel they’ve gotten all the mileage they can out of this “conflict.” It’s going to be a cash cow for the Dems, our corporate left and probably the Biden family in particular for years into the future.
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