if you feels bad now, then you certainly don’t know what happened in Russia during 90's.

“Stalin shot most of the officers in his own army. Read a bit of history.” - it’s not any secret that he killed and send to gulags many 1000's of army officers. Don’t worry I know Soviet history well enough.

“Right now Russia is occupying areas where they had driven out (often literally, in trucks or in coffins) original inhabitants and systematically brought in Russians. Just to make it predominantly Russian and eventually kill off the other ‘ethnic groups’. - My relatives in Komi republic and in Arkhangelsk would have a…

Moved to Norway in the 90's after my father died. My home town Arkhangelsk has trading\educational\cultural connections with Norway, so back then it was a “natural” choice. But it doesn’t mean I forgot about my relatives and where I come from (spend summers as a kid in the villages of my grandparents). And unlike you…

A lot if things happened in Russia’s history and a lot has happened during Soviet history as well. My family has lost gold\diamond mines after revolution ffs, and many of the relatives were deported to the camps in Siberia, far over Ural mountains, while some were killed for trying to hide things. Many people also…

“Try being a ‘southern’ looking person in Russia...

“The US is the leader of the free world” - tell that to the people in Middle East.

“Does that mean that countless cultures in the east (in the areas that are not in the middle of nowhere) have not been wiped out?” - again complete BS.

“Hell, even now in the cities they’ll ‘cleanse’ away who says anything unpatriotic. Even ‘ordinary’ Russians are extremely racist and intolerant, they’ll oppress the hell out of anyone not ‘purely Russian’ or critical of Putin, and now with their new nationalistic insanity more than in previous decades (if possible).”…

my grandparents are natives you are talking about here. Grandmother is a native Komi and grandfather is a native Nenetz. And they both could speak their native languages, and were never forced to forget it, and they were never ethnically cleansed. My far relatives still live out there in the villages with their…

yes with CIA supplied Stingers )

“Stalin probably had all their reindeer shot because they weren’t loyal and trustworthy enough to him.” - again such BS. Dude you absolutely no idea whatsoever about natives living up there.

“But sure, now that Russia has massacred, deported and oppressed the indigenous peoples” - complete BS. Before making such comments, make a basic research at least.

“Finland won the war from a strategic perspective they remained independent from the USSR.” - There was never any intentions of occupying Finland, just annexation of strategic territories which Stalin has achieved with success.

“The USSR did not destroy Hitlers army.” - 85% of all german losses were on the Eastern front vs USSR., including pretty much all of the German Elite forces. Western allies couldn’t open the2nd front for over 4 years ffs.

“They wanted to reach Sweden,Norway and gain control of the Arctic” - and they did it with success.

Finland lost the war. Stalin got exactly what he came for, namely strategic territories. There was never any intention about taking over Finland (since the whole population was hostile). And some Finns are still crying about those territories, like Japanese about Kurils :D

Syrian kurds have never made any claims about splitting up from Syria (autonomy within Syria yes, but nothing about an independent state)

Syrian Kurds have no desire to make an independent state and to split from Syria.

you’re like a smoker telling other smokers in the same room to quit smoking.