Re: Lithuanian independence - 20th anniversary

On Mar 24, 2:42 am, Anton <anton.use...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ostap S. B. M. Bender Jr. kirjoitti:

My point is that the responsibility of Russians for Bolshevism should
not be 100%. It should be equal to the share of Russians in the total
population of the Russian Empire in 1917. All residents of the Russian
Empire are equally responsible for the Revolution.
The Bolshevik revolution was not a RUSSIAN NATIONALIST event. On the
contrary, it was an INTERNATIONALIST, ANTI-nationalist event, opposed
by Russian nationalists.

Let's judge by the end result:

- Re-annexation of most of the lost parts from the Russian Empire
- A russification so effective that no nationalist could ever dream of.

Let me see... After the rule of Ireland, Wales, Scotland, the native
languages almost disappeared and virtually everybody speaks English as
their first languages.

After the Russian rule of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, these
countries happily speak their native languages, and Russian is not
even a second official national language there.

So, why would you say that the "russification" of the Baltics was "so
effective that no nationalist could ever dream of"? That sounds
bizarre.

And what does this say about the English?

Perhaps The Bolshevik revolution itself wasn't an nationalist event, but
from Stalin onward the USSR was a imperialistic state that repressed
other nationalities and practiced de facto russification in the
territories it controlled.

Russia pales in comparison to the other large European countries like
England, Spain, Portugal and France.

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