Novgorod/Russia/USSR invasions into the area of modern Finland past 1000 years: 1042, 1123, 1191, 1226-1227, 1256, 1294-1295, 1311, 1318, 1350, 1377, 1411, 1479, 1495-1497, 1516, 1555-1557, 1570-1595, 1700-1721, 1741-1743, 1808-1809 ja 1939.
A small wonder we are still here I guess.
The dates are meant to obfuscate the history as to why there were Russians there, “100 years of invasions” mean the counter offensives in the Eastern Front, the civil war, and the Great Patriotic War. The ‘53 German date isn’t even an invasion as it was requested by the East German government.
As Belarusian, I don't like this map. If you paint Poland with 1939, then paint Belarus with 1939 too. It was mostly occupied by Germany after WW1. Most of it came back into russian occupation after the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact.
I can assure you, Chechnya and Ossetia would like a color too. So do Mari and Tataria. So do Karelia and Kalmykia. So do Pomorje and Starodub-Vetka (where ppl were exterminated for religious differences).
The only peculiar case on this map is Armenia that afaik was abandoned rather than invaded...
2. We were separated between western and eastern Allied Forces after WW2. In 1949 two separate german countries were founded, the eastern one strongly influenced by Soviet Union.
And we don't hate Russia. Just Putin. (At least everyone, who's kept their sanity.) He and his regime are a threat to every democratic nation and to innocent people. There are innocent people in Russia, too.
This is up for dispute. Russia must be demilitarized and they must be forced into a democracy. People is people of course everywhere they live but I doubt Russia will go towards democracy even if Putin and his goons would disappear.
To do so, NATO would have to invade Russia. This would set the world on fire. Forcing countries into democracy didn't work so well in recent past.
We should go for something smaller that actually works. If they'd mind their own damn business and stop invading countries and minds, that'd be great.
Change in Russia must come from the people like in eastern Germany in 1989.
Only thing we can do from the outside is set strong boundaries, defend and be independent.
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https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/russia/territory/index.html
A small wonder we are still here I guess.
There are enough real cases in the map to make the case,
you don't need to fish around.
You don’t need to defend Nazis to condemn the actions of the Russian state, people just keep finding ways to do so anyway. How about you?
The only peculiar case on this map is Armenia that afaik was abandoned rather than invaded...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_mass_execution_of_Belarusians
I know, it lists the 1953 events.
But still.
Come on.
We should go for something smaller that actually works. If they'd mind their own damn business and stop invading countries and minds, that'd be great.
I'm not saying we should attack Russia. But as it seems they seek conflict and if it's unavoidable, then that it is the only way.
Only thing we can do from the outside is set strong boundaries, defend and be independent.
We hate the Russian regime for what they do to the people of Ukraine and for manipulating our democratic systems and the minds of our people.