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Greg McVerry / Writing & conversations
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@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 The White Army of Monarchist and Imperials took Kyiv as well for a bit. Derkin shot folks up for speaking Ukraine too Then the Soviet era begins, but Russia doubles down on genociding in Ukraine some pigs are deader than others
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 Of Course Russia saves Ukraine by shelling it 15,000 shells fell on Ukraine (kinda like Russia does today...but then blames Ukraine) Mikhail Muraviev, the Bolshevik rolled into Kiev and started shooting folks for speaking Ukrainian
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 Starting in 1914 Count Georgii Bobrinsky saw Russofication of Ukraine as his main job. This dude was a dick even by Russian standards. then we get to the Revolution
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 They called Nationalist "Mazepists" now Like President Trump Russia always had nick names for their enemies (wait MAGA was Russia too...but different thread).
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 Then you had the Edict of Ems in 1876, this threw down the gauntlet on Ukrainian culture. The Union of the Russian People in 1905 was established by Russia and efforts were made to break Ukraine into Right and Left Bank (like Putin is still trying to do today)
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 In 1875 Russia established "Special Council" to examine the publication of Ukrainian literature Russia loves that word "special" to mean imperial colonies kinda like "special military operation"
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 Starting in 1847 Russia began to arrest Ukrainian Nationalists The word "Ukrainophiles" was invented then...Remember this when Khrushchev invents "Banderite" a century later
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 Count Uvarov dubbed the university a "mental fortress" for Russification. Russia kept a antisemitic education program going in Ukraine, until well today. David Duke, KKK leader, he got his doctorate at the Russian Interregional Academy of Personnel Management MAUP in Ukraine
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 In November 1833, Nicholas opened new university in the city of Kie. Russia thought it Kiev was getting too Polish. But Uvarov really meant ruling nobles. The people spoke Ukrainians. Russians were encouraged to migrate to Ukraine for industry (Russia was still a backwater)
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 After the November Uprising in 1831 Russia made the "Western Commission" to handle Russofication in Poland and Ukraine 1840s Nicholas oversaw the liquidation of urban self-government and the abolition of the local law code also when Uvarov enters scene. Education the target
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 Then in 1905 the Baltic Nations expressed a desire for Independence...OMG did Russia brutally oppress those Then a brief Independence until WWII when Russia made a deal with Hitler We need to head back to Poland and Ukraine. Russia always be genociding there
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 You had to use Russian and they forced Lutherans to convert to Russian Orthodoxy. Or tried. Lutherans a stubborn bunch. The Lithuanian Catholics were real pissed about the Alphabet This was the time(ish) of "Alphabet Wars" in Poland and Ukraine" as well
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 Then when Germany unified in 1871 things got hot, especially in Estonia and Latvia where Russia feared "German pull" It's the entire Great Power, suzerain state nonsense of Imperialism Only Russia still tries to practice this Imperialism today.
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 Russian policies at towards non-Russians was atmost reactionary and preventative in the Baltics when compared to Ukraine and Poland (but those were Muslims, Jews, and Catholics, not people) We call this FAFO today..Russia developed such a paranoia of Nationalism..still today
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 russification is ethnic cleansing anyway you put it. It just means ethnic cleansing by Russia The Baltic States saw a ton of this from 1772-1917 Then Stalin...well forget about it...we will get there...It is Remembrance Day
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 Lithuania got subsumed in the third Partition of Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1791 This was really because Russia was scared of liberalism. Poland had a really cool Constitution in 1791 for a hot minute. People should read it. It's like an improved US Constitution
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 Russian colonization of the Baltics began in 1721 after the Great Northern War Victory against Sweden out Russia on the map. Literally just a backwater system of vassal city states up to that point
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 But let's rewind a bit before we get to Russian genocides in 20th century because they never stopped (maybe 1953-1993 (a stretch)..but that's it otherwise it is always genocide o'clock in Russia and we see them in Ukraine today Let's head to Baltic States. It is Remembrance Day
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 The Protocols of the Elder of Zion has all the antisemitic classics we see today, but it just called George Soros/WEF/ZOG now. Literally became the Bible that inspired nazism. Russia is the OG genocide incubator in Europe. Full stop
Greg McVerryIn reply to twitter.com ↗
@MikaelValterss1 @DagnyTaggart963 @randymot4 And wow it's 1890 somebody wrote an anti-Semitic trope and Russian espionage does what Russia does they steal it, repackage, and do evil Now 1903 Welcome Tsar Nicolas who commissioned The Protocols of the Elder of Zion It was the first modern disinformation, and fake news
Greg McVerry