Explanation: Forced assimilation and cultural genocide were common pastimes for European powers in the 18th-20th centuries. Some people pretend that Russia, a transcontinental empire with a systemic policy of mass ethnic cleansing and deportations, was different in this regard, and refuse any attempt to examine Russian atrocities as a form of cultural chauvinism or ideological bias - especially strange considering that said atrocities were committed under both a far-right monarchist regime and a left-wing authoritarian regime.
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
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Goddamn, dude, you gotta make one of them 'tism history youtube channels like Alernate History Hub or Extra Credits. I bet you got a narrator's voice, too.
Also 100% agree. Nationalism and national-identity were the thing to shoot for with the wanning of existing systems of control like religion and monarchic fealty. Largely, these systems were following an American model of national identity, which itself was based on the British colonial identity model. The Brits fomented loyalty to the crown wherever their flag was raised, granting an identity to those colonists loyal to them. America shifted that identity to tie disparate states together under what was originally, austensibly a defense pact, and after manifest destiny and the civil war, it took on a national identity of it's own.
Goddamn, dude, you gotta make one of them βtism history youtube channels like Alernate History Hub or Extra Credits. I bet you got a narratorβs voice, too.
Appreciate the vote of confidence, but unfortunately, I don't! My conversational voice is drowned in three garbled and mutually exclusive regional accents and the lingering effects of a childhood speech impediment. I can suppress it if I focus, but that's uncomfortable to speak with for long periods.
Also, that sounds an awful lot like work, which I'm allergic to.
You could pair up with someone, you write the episodes, they record it. Here's hope you find a good partner and this takes off.
Please don't use that guy. So many other good images for this meme format...
Why? Is he a dick or something?
Several settled assault lawsuits and one sexual assault lawsuit against him, plus not crediting other artists. Yeah, dick is selling it short.
Ah. I'll be frank, I actually have no idea who he is. I'm not a big music guy.
You're not missing much.
That text over the images is missing a century.