🌍Russia proposes a concrete approach to reparations for #Africa.
— Russian Embassy in South Africa 🇷🇺 (@EmbassyofRussia) January 15, 2026
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
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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Clarissa's Blog 
The fact that they’re speaking English is a reminder that the Russians lost the cold war.
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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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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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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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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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