Somebody on Facebook is asking why Ukraine is not “like Ireland.” I considered asking why the author of the query isn’t like a human being with a functioning brain but decided not to be cruel.
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How did they mean the question? Some parallels seem kind of obvious… a smaller country colonized by a larger, belligerent neighbor that despised its language and culture and did it’s best to eliminate them and did not hesitate to use famine to try to engineer social change and control (to be fair the British didn’t create the potato famine but they did as close to nothing to help as was possible).
It’s very far from a perfect analogy but there are a few parallels…..
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