[dfwgator]

Russia sent in Russian speaking “managers” and political bosses into all the constituent Soviet republics. The fact that have substantial Russian minorities today is a byproduct of Soviet Russian imperialism, not natural or historical settlements.

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The Russians certainly weren’t the first to do this kind of thing.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

What the Russians are doing in Ukrain would be like the British attacking New Dehli to reestablish the Raj.