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Not to worry, the mainline of hexbear and .ml regarding Ukraine is completely messed up. They have a completely west-centric view and lack any serious context whatsoever.
Unfortunately stalinists can't accept that the Soviet Union had plenty of flaws and oppressed people, including workers, in many ways. Instead of learning the lesson to avoid repeating past mistakes they just double-down.
I had a conversation once when someone called all the baltics "Nazi hotbeds" and to support this claim they linked a law that is gradually removing Russian schools in favour of having Russian as a foreign language. Someone was telling me that "people have a right to have education in Russian" and failing to provide that is a human rights violation. I asked to show me a country in which education in foreign language is a right, but sadly didn't get any answer. I have also then linked soviet laws that forbid teaching in Ukrainian, and surprisingly I didn't get any answer either.
I have also provided some interesting sources from Ukrainian leftists, one specifically was from a historian. But obviously the American fella on Lemmy - who doesn't speak a word of any language which is not English, never read anything from a non-western source, lacks cultural context etc. - knows better.
I think life is too short to deal with silly things, and even shorter to deal with idiots. I - a communist from Western Europe - ended up blocking both instances because I have no interests in being associated with zealots of a Stalinist cult.
in southtyrol there are is german school for 400 000 people
Yep, i have mentioned that here coincidentally. But as you probably know the region where this happens has a special status in Italy (it's not the only one) and German is officially equal to Italian there (despite Italian being the ultimately legal language for disputes etc.). French is also an official language of Valle d'Aosta, I think.
As far as I am aware, anywhere else in Italy (where German is indeed not an official language) there are no (public) schools that teach in German. For example, despite almost a million of Romanian-speakers in Italy, nobody has a right of education in Romanian in Italy. This pretty much sums up my point, no state offers public education in a language different from their official language(s).
true. without bombs against infrastructure(!) our rights would still be limited. im not saying that bombs are the only option, but very effective.