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		kergonath on June 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Notes on Tajikistan You can, in fact, be fighting for liberty and be a brutal murderer. You can even be fighting for liberty one day and a brutal dictator the next. Hiding genocides under the carpet because they are done by the former colony or satellite is not great.

brnt on June 21, 2024 [–]

There was forced deportation, not genocide.

kergonath on June 21, 2024 | [–]

Yeah, I had other examples in mind. Ethnic cleansing is not that much better, though.

brnt on June 21, 2024 | | [–]

Again, that's a peculiar way to characterise decolonisation.

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