here is what’s in store for you this week:
Even the most trivial interactions between russians and Ukrainians can illustrate for you what colonialism looks like in practice. One such thing happened to me lately.
Staggering parallels between the little-known history of Moscow starving hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to death in the 1920s and today’s genocide.
The russian invasion of Ukraine did not start in 2022. Or even in 2014. Russia has been trying to erase the Ukrainian identity since the 16th century. Without this vantage point, you can’t see the war in Ukraine for what it is: a colonial war.
What about russian colonialism during the Soviet era? We’ve got you covered with the story of the brutal re-colonisation of the Sakha people in Northern Asia during the 20th century.
Learn more about the shared history of Polish, Lithuanian, and Belarusian struggle against russian colonialism.
Russian Colonialism 101 is the first newsletter to shed light on Russian colonialism and is part of the Volya Hub network. What is happening to Ukraine has happened many times before, and the rest of the world has been conditioned to overlook or misdiagnose it. This isn’t history. It’s how you stop being shocked by what was always predictable.
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