[buzzkillington]

Winners don't talk about the people they murdered to win. Same thing about Australia, Canada and less so New Zealand.

It is also hilarious that the USSR is the only country apart from Japan to successfully industrialize and avoid a colonial genocide from a Western power.

If you could pick a place to live being a Russian in Moscow 1919 would give you a much better chance of surviving compared to being an Indian in Manhattan in 1624, Toronto in 1787 or Melbourne in 1835.

[selimthegrim]

Russia was a Western power as far as Central Asia and the Caucasus were concerned

[buzzkillington]

If having an empire is the definition of being Western than you need to include the Ottomans too. At which point the word means nothing.

[mobilefriendly]

Please study the actual history of the USSR-- there were multiple genocides of different religions and ethnic groups. Most notable were the pogroms and the death of millions in the Ukraine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691152387/st...

[buzzkillington]

Interesting how all the groups who had genocide perpetrated against them somehow ended up with a double population than when they were conquered with, meanwhile Ireland still has a smaller population than they had in 1800.

[Hoasi]

> the USSR is the only country apart from Japan to successfully industrialize and avoid a colonial genocide from a Western power.

Thailand was never a colony either. Besides, USSR was not a country and formed after the colonial heydays.

[lonelappde]

Russians were genocided by their own government, not a foreign power (except for the many used as meatbags in WWII).