"‘Subhumans’ who, in the best colonial manner, well known to the former colonial powers, were not only exploited for years, but also expelled and simply exterminated"
the ambassador was not mistakenly speaking about the holodomor, or was he?
Huhum, you would have to ask Mr. Lubinskij about that, I suppose.
If you'd ask me, I think he glossed over that part of the 20th century. And the Gulag Archipelago, too (yet, to be 'fair' on this one, Solshenitsin's work was re-introduced as mandatory reading in Russian high schools about ten years ago…)
"‘Subhumans’ who, in the best colonial manner, well known to the former colonial powers, were not only exploited for years, but also expelled and simply exterminated"
the ambassador was not mistakenly speaking about the holodomor, or was he?
Huhum, you would have to ask Mr. Lubinskij about that, I suppose.
If you'd ask me, I think he glossed over that part of the 20th century. And the Gulag Archipelago, too (yet, to be 'fair' on this one, Solshenitsin's work was re-introduced as mandatory reading in Russian high schools about ten years ago…)
Blinders everywhere, no doubt about that.