Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Living Ironically in Europe" channel.

  1. Russians are NOT A RACE. Russia is a highly diverse imperial construct ruled by Moscow but containing a great variety of native peoples.
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  2. With respect to Bolsheviks the Admiral was of course correct.
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  3.  @nimrodszocs2795  "Completely right" from what perspective besides hurt feelings? A single assassination which was not a governmental act is not normally considered casus belli. The choice to war indicates the assassination was more convenience than provocation to war even by the low standards of the era. (I've no ethnic ties to the region thus no dog in the fight.) When nation states choose war there is always both pretext and real motivation, for the simple publics (they're ALL simple) must have emotional stake in the great game.
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  4. How did Trianon and its legacy affect current Hungarian fealty to Moscow? Does Viktor Orbán reflect Hungarian public support for Putin and if so what caused such a remarkable turnaround from 1956? Was it resentment at NATO not sending military support (of course an absurd idea given Soviet nuclear weapons)? How successful were Russification policies post-WWII and why?
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  5. Do filter FAIRLY. The first victims of Russian tyrants are always other Russians. Russians who OPPOSE Putin and Russian Federation imperialism (which can only come at European expense as it has for centuries) are not the enemy. Every advocate of Russian expansionism was and is an enemy of European and democratic civilization period but millions of Russians escaped every previous version of Russia to settle elsewhere. Filter by ideology since for example Russian refugees from Bolshevism made upstanding citizens no person who supports any version of Communism, Bolshevism, Stalinism or Putinism is not a deliberate enemy of European civilization and the body counts of those movements are ample proof. Nationality is not ideology and many Russians defected to the West during the early Cold War (which never ended). Give a warm welcome to the good ones. For example Russian emigration to the US goes back centuries.
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