Posted on 07/07/2022 2:43:31 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Consider the Buryats, one of Siberia’s largest Indigenous groups. Closely related to Mongolians, they were subjugated, annexed, and subsequently colonized by Russia in the 1600s. Russian independent news outlets Mediazona and iStories found that by mid-May, Buryatia had the second-highest number of soldiers killed in Ukraine since the start of the invasion—just after Dagestan, another conquest of the Russian Empire. By May 18, Buryatia had lost 117 soldiers (the actual number is likely higher), whereas the city of Moscow, with a population around 15 times Buryatia’s, lost only three. Relative to the population, Buryatia’s rate of battle deaths was the highest in all of Russia. Go through Russian war casualties, and the preponderance of Muslim names—mainly from units raised in Dagestan and other North Caucasus republics—is striking. Russians of Central Asian ethnicity are disproportionately dying as well: At least 10 ethnic Tajiks have already been killed in Ukraine while fighting for Russia.
Prompted by Putin’s ludicrous claims about “de-Nazifying” Ukraine and the Russian state media’s nakedly fascist narratives, Alexandra Garmazhapova, a former journalist and co-founder of Buryats Against War, began to crowdsource first-person experiences of non-ethnic Russians. The response was overwhelming: Thousands of Kazakhs, Yakuts, Dagestanis, and other nonwhite Russians flooded her Instagram inbox with horrific accounts of xenophobic and racist abuse by their ethnic Russian colleagues, classmates, neighbors, and strangers. Another activist, the Yakut film director Beata Bashkiroff, gathered a similar collection of testimonies and came to the conclusion that it is Russia itself that needs to be “de-Nazified.”
As activists from Russia’s Indigenous lands are rediscovering their ancestral heritage and languages suppressed by colonialist policies—or simply considered unfashionable or inimical to one’s career—they are now also motivated by an anger that their status as imperial subjects has turned into a matter of life and death.
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If Russia wins in Ukraine, it will add many millions of additional combat age males to the ranks of individuals available to be shanghaied for additional Russian imperial ventures to the West and beyond. Note that they don’t necessarily have be supplied with weapons and made to fight, given the risk of mutiny and outright revolt. They can be made to transport supplies to the front, on pain of death, starvation or harm to their loved ones.
gengis and kubla are sad...
Mongolians are nice neighbors, they never did nuffin to no one...
Ukrainians will counterattack. The Russian combat units are becoming depleted.
YOU can support these corrupt Liberal World Order leaders with YOUR money. Keep your hands out of my pockets.
Two more weeks!
The genocidal campaign of slaughter carried out by the Russians against the natives of Siberia bears a closer resemblance to the German Holocaust than the winning of the West:
Upon arrival in an area occupied by a tribe of natives, the Cossacks entered into peace talks with a proposal to submit to the White Tsar and to pay yasak, but these negotiations did not always lead to successful results. When their entreaties were rejected, the Cossacks chose to respond with force. At the hands of people such as Vasilii Poyarkov in 1645 and Yerofei Khabarov in 1650 some many people, including members of the Daur tribe, were killed by the Cossacks. 8,000 out of a previous population of 20,000 in Kamchatka remained after the first half century of the Russian conquest.[8] The Daurs initially deserted their villages fearing the reported cruelty of the Russians the first time Khabarov came.[9] The second time he came, the Daurs fought back against the Russians, but were slaughtered.[10] In the 17th century, indigenous peoples of the Amur region were attacked by Russians who came to be known as "red-beards".[11]
In the 1640s the Yakuts were subjected to violent expeditions during the Russian advance into the land near the Lena river, and on Kamchatka in the 1690s the Koryak, Kamchadals, and Chukchi were also subjected to this by the Russians according to Western historian Stephen Shenfield.[12] When the Russians did not obtain the demanded amount of yasak from the natives, the governor of Yakutsk, Piotr Golovin, who was a Cossack, used meat hooks to hang the native men. In the Lena basin, 70% of the Yakut population declined within 40 years, native women were raped and, along with children, were often enslaved in order to force the natives to pay the Yasak.[9][better source needed]
According to John F. Richards:
Smallpox first reached western Siberia in 1630. In the 1650s, it moved east of the Yenisey, where it carried away up to 80 percent of the Tungus and Yakut populations. In the 1690s, smallpox epidemics reduced Yukagir numbers by an estimated 44 percent. The disease moved rapidly from group to group across Siberia. Death rates in epidemics reached 50 percent of the population. The scourge returned at twenty- to thirty-year intervals, with dreadful results among the young.[7]
In Kamchatka, the Russians crushed the Itelmens uprisings against their rule in 1706, 1731, and 1741. The first time, the Itelmen were armed with stone weapons and were badly unprepared and equipped but they used gunpowder weapons the second time. The Russians faced tougher resistance when from 1745–56 they tried to subjugate the gun and bow equipped Koraks until their victory. The Russian Cossacks also faced fierce resistance and were forced to give up when trying unsuccessfully to wipe out the Chukchi in 1729, 1730–1, and 1744–7.[13] After the Russian defeat in 1729 at Chukchi hands, the Russian commander Major Pavlutskiy was responsible for the Russian war against the Chukchi and the mass slaughters and enslavement of Chukchi women and children in 1730–31, but his cruelty only made the Chukchis fight more fiercely.[14] Cleansing of the Chukchis and Koraks was ordered by Empress Elizabeth in 1742 to totally expel them from their native lands and erase their culture through war. The command was that the natives be "totally extirpated" with Pavlutskiy leading again in this war from 1744–47 in which he led to the Cossacks "with the help of Almighty God and to the good fortune of Her Imperial Highness", to slaughter the Chukchi men and enslave their women and children as booty. However the Chukchi ended this campaign and forced them to give up by killing Pavlutskiy and decapitating him.[15]
The Russians were also launching wars and slaughters against the Koraks in 1744 and 1753–4. After the Russians tried to force the natives to convert to Christianity, the different native peoples like the Koraks, Chukchis, Itelmens, and Yukagirs all united to drive the Russians out of their land in the 1740s, culminating in the assault on Nizhnekamchatsk fort in 1746.[16] Kamchatka today is European in demographics and culture with only 2.5% of it being native, around 10,000 from a previous number of 150,000, due to the mass slaughters by the Cossacks after its annexation in 1697 of the Itelmen and Koryaks throughout the first decades of Russian rule. The killings by the Russian Cossacks devastated the native peoples of Kamchatka.[17] In addition to committing massacres the Cossacks also devastated the wildlife by slaughtering massive numbers of animals for fur.[18] 90% of the Kamchadals and half of the Vogules were killed from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries and the rapid slaughter of the indigenous population led to entire ethnic groups being entirely wiped out, with around 12 exterminated groups which could be named by Nikolai Iadrintsev as of 1882. Much of the slaughter was brought on by the fur trade.[19]
If Russia wins in Ukraine,
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Russia has already won, Vlads Feb 24th speech spelled out his goals, which are 98 percent met. Spin it anyway one wants to, but they have 30 percent of Ukraine territory, Ukraine’s economy is destroyed, their military largely depleted, they are now drafting woman, ( desperation), according to western intelligence they are now bleeding 1,000 men a day, and their manufacturing and export base is non existent.
While unconditional surrender is unlikely, IF Vlad takes Odessa back, Ukraine ceases to exist as a viable nation.
Any more money spent by the West goes down a corrupted black hole.Sorry Biden war cheerleaders, time to accept a dose of reality.
Ukrainians will counterattack. The Russian combat units are becoming depleted.
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Yeah, they will be in Red Square in weeks…keep in mind Vlad has not even mobilized the Russia military in accordance with their Duma laws ( Russian Congress), whereas the corrupted little beggar Zelensky has been fully mobilized and is now drafting woman. Keep in mind the ethnic Russian Donbass now lies securely in Vlads hands, their declared Independence of 2015 now a reality….
Hint, Vlad is not giving it back….hope he doesn’t decide to eat Odessa next.
been to Kamchatka, chasin soviet subs and missiles
Interesting. Russian attacks on Siberian natives was ahead of the schedule of European attacks on their American cousins. But during Cold War our academics said we were bad, Russians were good on nativist front.
that was to post 12
he was in the war!
Continuing the Orc tradition of slaughter:
Soviet whaling: The Most Senseless Environmental Waste of the 20th Century
Pacific Standard ^ | November 12, 2013 | Charles Homans
https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-senseless-environment-crime-of-the-20th-century-russia-whaling-67774
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