genocide is synonymous with #russianColonialism. over centuries russia perfected mass slaughter and ethnic cleansing to the point of copy-paste job. maximize educating yourself
rape, slaughter, unclaimed bodies of russian soldiers left behind. @OPolianichev reminded me of these paintings of 19th-century genocide in central asia by russian artist vereshchagin. ukraine 2022 or samarkand 1868 — literally nothing has changed in #russianColonialsm toolbox
1485-1950. #russianColonialism genocide of the komi indigenous nation. centuries of economic exploitation, russification, mass murder of intelligentsia, settler colonialism, pillaging of local natural resources made komi a 30% minority on their own lands blogs.helsinki.fi/slavica-helsin…
1552. #russianColonialism genocide of kazan. after several failed attempts to install puppet rulers, russians sieged the capital of the indigenous people tatars for a month, then slaughtered 65k citizens, razing most buildings to the ground en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_…
1607-1800s. #russianColonialism genocide of the ket. the indigenous nation was forcefully resettled several times to break the resistance. famines, epidemics introduced by settler colonialists put the ket into dependence on food assistance from moscow eki.ee/books/redbook/…
1651-56. #russianColonialism genocide of the daur people, part of siberian settler colonialism push. no exact estimate how many killed, but males were systemically slaughtered. russians used rape and kidnapping of children as a deliberate genocide strategy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daur_peop…
1640-50s. #russianColonialism genocide of yakut, koryak, kamchadals, chukchi people. part of siberian colonialism push. 80% killed or died of settler-introduced smallpox. russians used meat hooks to hang the native men, raped the women en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_c…
1650-1950. #russianColonialism genocide of the selkup. settler colonialism drives many to suicide by self-burying alive. russification, land stealing, exploitation empowered by alcohol & fraud, mass kidnapping of kids made the nation nearly instinct eki.ee/books/redbook/…
1706-44. #russiancolonialism genocide of itelmens. the indigenous nation was enslaved during siberian settler colonialism push. after several rebellions, russians killed 80% of the population. just 3k itelmens survived to the date en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itelmens
1714-1960. #russianColonialism genocide of the mansi. moscow used violent christianization, settler colonialism as a pretext to colonize the indigenous nation, enforced cultural erasure, and pillaged the land for tens of billions in oil and gas eki.ee/books/redbook/…
1740-1850s. #russianColonialism genocide of kamchatka indigenous nations. the original population of 150,000 went to 10,000 via systemic slaughter. at least 12 nations were fully exterminated, their lands stolen by settler russian colonists en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_c…
1750-1800. #russianColonialism genocide of the koryaks indigenous nation. the original population of 11,000 reduced to 4,800 via systemic slaughter, settler-introduced smallpox and slavery en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koryaks
1750-1910. #russianColonialism genocide of the aleut indigenous nation. mass murder, enslavement, forced resettlement, russification and settler colonialism cut the original population of 25k to 1k by 1910 eki.ee/books/redbook/…
1820-70s. #russianColonialism genocide of circassian people. ethnic cleansing, mass rape, and deportations affected 97% or 1,500,000 of this muslim indigenous nation. russians burn villages mostly at night, systematically starve, massacre locals en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassia…
1860-1940s. #russianColonialism genocide of the nivkh. settler colonialism outnumbered the indigenous nation, turned their lands into a massive unsanitary gulag, devastated it with epidemics and environmental ruin. russification filled cultural erasure en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivkh_peo…
1877-1945. #russianColonialism genocide of the ainu people. targeted with several deportations, moscow forbade the indigenous nation to self-identify because of a territorial dispute with japan — the ban exists to the date en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_in_R…
1900. #russianColonialism genocide of chinese and other indigenous nations of the far east. when moscow got scared that anti-colonial boxer rebellion will inspire russian-colonized asian people it just slaughtered thousands and deported tens of thousands en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Amur…
1930-1970s. #russianColonialism genocide of the enets indigenous nation. ban to reindeer, kidnapping kids to boarding schools, russification, settler colonialism, and inflicting environmental ruin made the nation almost extinct eki.ee/books/redbook/…
1937-1960s. #russianColonialism genocide of the sámi indigenous people. moscow plans the pillage of their lands rich on natural resources, spreads disinfo about 'traitor nation', mass murders and deports the sámi, replaces them with settler colonists diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva…
1944. #russianColonialism genocide of the karachays. to clear lands for russian settlers and as 'final solution for muslim problem', moscow spreads 'traitor nation' disinfo, deports all 70k of them to central asia. every 5th killed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportati…
1944. #russianColonialism genocide of the meskhetian turks. as 'final solution for muslim problem', moscow deports 100k of them to central asia. every 2nd killed. most descendants remain stateless en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportati…
1944. #russianColonialism genocide of izhorians. moscow deports the nation as 'traitors,' many die or chose to russify to avoid further discrimination. original population of 26k drops to couple of hundreds today, izhorian language is nearly extinct researchgate.net/publication/33…
this thread is not a full list and just illustrative. it is linked to my original 'mother of all #russiancolonialism threads' documenting modern russian colonial invasions and other genocides done by moscow twitter.com/i/events/15081…
today we mark the Roma Resistance Day. the history of Ukrainian Roma fighting back against the colonial invaders, whether in 1945 or 2024, is integral to this story. however, it is also one of the least known.
my latest essay for russian colonialism 101. the newsletter
The Ukrainian resistance against fascism and colonialism, both its Western and russian forms, dates back generations. Romani-Ukrainians are integral part of this history
Misha Biketov was a young artist writing electronic music for my favorite Ukrainian label @dnipropop. then russia came to his home and instead of art, he had to defend his family from genocide. Misha became a great drone operator instead. but russians still took him away from us
Misha was just 24.
His label and frontline unit are fundraising to support his family in these trying times.
blood-chilling account of russia-facilitated famine in Ukraine in 1921-1923. moscow starved up to 2.5 million Ukrainians or approximately 7-8% of the nation — it still remains largely unknown and poorly-studied chapters of #RussianColonialism
"There were many cases of suicide. Mothers threw their children into wells and rivers, killing themselves afterward. Hunger tormenting people so much that they became crazed."
the 1921 famine in the Soviet Union started as a weather- and war-provoked crisis. but while russia mobilized unprecedented international aid for regions closer to Moscow, the same catastrophe in newly recolonized Ukraine and Crimea-Qirim was kept as a secret and ignored
Our arts and culture have always served Ukrainians as an anchor to fall back on during the darkest hours
Empires, which tried to break and erase Ukraine. They come and go. But the Ukrainian spirit, values and resistance live on — often encapsulated in the Ukrainian art and culture istpublishing.org/en/russian-col…
“Russian Colonialism 101” guidebook is as much about storytelling as it is about art. I’d like you to meet seven Ukrainian artists who empowered this book with their talent.
a 1989 work by a Ukrainian artist Maria Shnyder-Senyuk. titled "The 1930’s in Ukraine" it depicts the russia-made Holodomor genocide in Ukraine. russians stole the painting from a museum in Kherson in 2022 while their country and the society still deny genocide even happened
systemic erasure of any evidence of russia-committed genocides is part of the #RussianColonialism toolbox of covering up for mass murders russians commit. throughout centuries it allowed russian society to evade any accountability for imperial violence committed in its name
this serial behavior of erasing/stealing historic artifacts of the colonized communities allows the empire to rewrite or reinterpret history with ease. that’s why 90 years later the Holodomor genocide that took away almost as many lives as Holocaust is still barely known globally