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Comment by mlrtime

5 hours ago

So because of a war they shouldn't learn Russian, and why do you type it as "Ruzzian"?

The effort people put into criticizing how others spend their time is baffling, especially on HN.

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fractallyte  4 hours ago

russians (this time spelt with a lowercase 'r') have forfeited their right to exist as a nation.

Consistently throughout history, they have invaded, colonized, and genocided their neighbors.

They are doing it now, while the whole world watches. If anything, their brazenness is increasing - because they know there will never be any punishment.

When people wonder how Germans allowed their country to tip over into Nazism, modern russia is a perfect reenactment of that: we can see it happening, in real time.

And it's a blazing indictment that the rest of our "civilized" world is doing the absolute minimum to prevent history from repeating itself. Utterly SHAMEFUL.

  • vkou  4 hours ago

    > russians (this time spelt with a lowercase 'r') have forfeited their right to exist as a nation. Consistently throughout history, they have invaded, colonized, and genocided their neighbors.

    Just to make sure we're on the right track here, has the UK (or maybe just England?) also earned that forfeit, or does it get a pass because it did all those things further away from home? (Except for that Ireland thing, which has produced some really 'funny' jokes about potatoes...)

risyachka  5 hours ago

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  • mlrtime  5 hours ago

    I'm teaching my son Russian and English now as well as the rich culture. I can also teach him to think critically and NOT support war.

    I'm sorry your experience has been so one sided, we all have different persepctives.

    • risyachka  3 hours ago

      From all languages in the world that could benefit an individual and help them with future networking/career/etc - like German, Spanish, French, etc - you picked russian?

      Please explain why, this is honestly a very confusing choice.

  • ramonga  4 hours ago

    russian is also natively spoken in Belarus, Ukraine & many ethnics minorities inside russian federation.

    • risyachka  3 hours ago

      Ukraine switched off from russian so you can cross it out,

      Russian in Belarus, Kazahstan etc is known only because soviet union forced it in schools. And now all those countries reduce its usage on every level.

      For obvious reason - it does not bring not a little tiny thing to the table. English does, German, mostly any language. Except russian.