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#Canada would do "The Great Scoop"(50s-80s), when #Canadian officials would break into #Aboriginal homes and kidnap their #children to be sent away to residential schools. These schools would cut their hair, disallow their #native #language, teach only #western #history. Stories of physical mental and sexual #abuse of these children were rampant, on top of being separated from their families."
#russia did the same during stalin's campaign "fighting illiteracy" (likbez, read genocide)
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I wonder who came up with such a "brilliant" idea first 🤔 Perhaps #stalin was exchanging letters sharing #genocidal practices with the #Canadian ruler?
I heard similar thing about #Kurdistan. Their #language has also been forbidden in #Turkey and #children can be punished for speaking it.
Of course in #Ukraine and #Belarus they did the same thing. Just without boarding schools, because our languages belong to one #language group and we had schools.
Also I strongly recommend you to check out responses to the questions of kenm4882 user. He says he's a fan of #SovietUnion because of the October revolution in 1917. People explain him very well what's wrong with #Lenin and #trotsky. Spoiler - their were obsessed with the idea of #communism and believed it was perfectly fine to sacrifice "smaller" nations to build their utopia.
I learned that at that time there was a lot of #political activity, incl. #leftist going all over the territories of
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Anastasiia Onu