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Crimean Tatars being herded onto trains for deportation by the Stalinist regime, where 22-40% would die after 5 years of forced labor and resettlement, 1944 (lemmy.world)

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[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's true that it was official policy in soviet-colonized spaces to erase the local culture and power structures, replacing it with Russia's, and paper over what happened with self-serving stories as the story of record. It's also true that this is a thing they have in common with every other colonizer; just as the Europeans colonized the shit out of the Americas, Russians colonized the shit out of the Soviet republics (and their own territory).

Yes, the process of colonizing in this fashion involves the deliberate destruction of inconvenient fact- but saying "we can't know the truth" participates in its erasure.

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago

I didn't say we can't know the truth. I said the truth can't be known if you can't ask questions and don't have free access to investigate the dark past. Some dude even called me a holocaust denier 🤡