Support for Reparations

🌍Russia proposes a concrete approach to reparations for #Africa.

Russian experts suggest calculating reparations mathematically, enabling African countries to seek compensation from former colonial powers through legal mechanisms.https://t.co/5URVHSecNJ pic.twitter.com/PznVFOIkN0
— Russian Embassy in South Africa 🇷🇺 (@EmbassyofRussia) January 15, 2026

The Soviet placard in the background is a visual reminder that if anybody won the Cold War, it wasn’t the people who speak English.

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The fact that they’re speaking English is a reminder that the Russians lost the cold war.

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Clarissa says:

January 23, 2026 at 11:46

This is truly the first time that I’ve heard anybody advance the idea that the purposes of the Cold War were linguistic. 😀

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1. PaulS says:
  
  January 23, 2026 at 12:09
  
  Language is taken very seriously in SA. One of the reasons the apartheid was invented was to preserve Afrikaans from being replaced by English.
  
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  1. Clarissa says:
    
    January 23, 2026 at 12:15
    
    Cubans still speak Spanish but they are completely Soviet in everything else. Everything that was Latin about them is gone. So yes, language is important but it’s not all-powerful.
    
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    1. PaulS says:
      
      January 23, 2026 at 12:19
      
      Yes, and Afrikaners have more in common with American conservatives than the Dutch, which is a major reason why the whole project was abandoned.
      
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