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		freeflight on Feb 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders a... > erasing a nation It's interesting how this kind of language now suddenly starts emerging, wonder how long until everybody will be talking about "genocide".

xyzzy_plugh on Feb 24, 2022 | [–]

I'm more than happy to be proven wrong. But the erasure of Ukraine is not novel.

0x008 on Feb 24, 2022 | | [–]

If history is anything to go by, it is not entirely unlikely that this will end in some form of genocide on the Ukrainian people.

saagarjha on Feb 24, 2022 | [–]

When people start dying?

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