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Additionally, texts addressing the Ottoman Empire's rule, previously described in the Syrian curriculum as "the brutal Ottoman authority," are set to be removed entirely.

I am curious why the section on Ottoman rule was removed completely.

Even a from a purely Ukro-nationalist framing (and I don't consider myself a nationalist, I am not even white), I would of course support the Ukrainian Crimea Tartar community.

I see the champagne bottle element of russian culture made you take a back step to your petty sarcasm?

Your attitude is what enables Putin specifically and near universal support for genocidal imperialism among russians.

Even before putin, the russians killed 50 thousand Chechen civilians when they put down their independence movement. A comparable figure would be ~7 million russian civilian casualties. And you talk about Zemifra albums. The reality is that you value the lives of russians more than the lives of the people they kill (even that may not be your intent).

And of course you blame solely putin ("putin nipped it in the bud") for the decline of russian civil society. Even though the russians re-elected putin in 2004 (in an election generally considered free and fair) after he shut down all independent mass media. Russians are responsible for the collapse of civil society. Don't infantalize them, they are not children.

Keed in mind, I lived in russia for a decade, coincidentally around the time you were there. And I did actually enjoy the first Zemfira album when it came out. But unlike you I was cognizant that russians were showing a lack of humanity in their attitude towards Chechens and that even liberal minded were show a worrying level of support for an authoritarian KGB goon.

No where did I say russian (or Bengali or Farsi or any language) cannot be used in private. Ukrainian is the official language of Ukraine, Ukraine has its own heroes and great people of culture.

Don't get petty with war crimes you little shit.

How am I shitting on Muslims? What are you even on about? You're equating Muslims to the Islamic state?

You can think whatever you want. You don't have to deal with russians, of course you're going to feign concerns about humanitarianism.

It is easy to reject reality, engage in historical revisionism, white-wash russian crimes, when the alternative works out to be you defacto promoting genocidal imperialism. Not many people want to end up on the wrong side of history and be caught saying "supporters and participants of the Nazi regime are not that bad". It is far easier to convince yourself that it's really about humanitarian concerns.

Then there is the cowardice angle. Feigning concern about humanitarianism provides a nice escape valve for de facto meek and complacent behaviour with respect to russian PR campaigns (nuclear sabre rattling). No one wants to look like a coward and a fool at the same time.

So keep at it, bro!

You seem to be a connisour of russian culture. You should look into their use of champagne bottles, it's very creative. I think you would appreciate it.

Check out Dalny, Kazan! Ask the locals and say you want a real world experience! Enjoy!

True that. Yes, it looks like total MAU could be a lot higher, although in ballpark it does seem to be closer to Lemmy's 45K.

I heard about discussions of such capabilities earlier in the year. Seems like this is the first confirmed successful hit.

I know you're being glib and all, but you're not doing the russians any favours with coddling their imperialist thinking.

They need to figure out what their culture stands for and how they relate to it. They are not even close, even alleged russian "liberals" are raging nationalists outside of public articles in English or western conferences.

Too bad MAUs are a mere 13K, even less than Lemmy with it's rather modest 45K MAUs.

But then again, I personally don't see any better competition to oligarch run social networks.

Great read. Never knew about the Alawite state under the French.

Thanks for sharing this community. Some interesting reading for later. Joined.

You should consider posting about your community in the weekly threads in the [email protected]

Ukrainians (in Odessa or anywhere really) are welcome to use russian (or Gujarati) in private. In the public sphere, the official language is Ukrainian.

I am aware that Odessa is not Donbas. What are you even trying to say?

Your waxing poetical about the russian nature of Odessa just like most russians (not only nationalists, you ever hear this from the alleged opposition).

Fundamentally it is not for you or (or the russians) to decide what the official language is in Ukraine, how we name our streets and how we choose to deal with centuries of russian imperialism.

For you this is purely a theoretical discussion. The reality of the matter is that russian language and culture are a tool of russian genocidal imperialism (just look at the state of say the Komi language, if you even know that such a language exists). To fight russian genocidal imperialism, you need to get rid of russian insignia and russian chauvinist, slave-mentality thinking. And yes, this also means recognizing that Ukrainian is the official language of Ukraine and that we have our our great artists and heroes.