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Can they crush the Haitian Revolution for Independance but still allow former slaves to keep their freedom? Technically revolution is crushed, Haiti becomes protectorate/colony of England and Haitians become "subjects of the crown"

Part of my family from Donbass whose story I told wasn't forced to change their ethnicity. It was done for them, they had no say in it.

Exactly. Maternal grandma is of Tatar origin, from central Russia. She was moved by the government to Donbass after Holodomor, where she married Ukrainian. Paternal side is from Besarabia, region. M9ved by Germans to Slobozhanzhina Ukraine. Grandpa's are both ukrainian.

Добрий вечір, щедрий вечір, добрим людям Yes, actually what you are typing is Ukrainian. What is your proficiency with BOTH languages? Typing it out is one thing, but knowing the minute differences in pronunciations of certain letters helps. Many words are same in both languages, but this is...

No. They are speaking Russian but the song is in Ukrainian. I speak both languages since birth.

http://www.karty.by/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Ethnic_map_USSR_19411.jpg Soviet map in 1941, after Holodomor. Still, look at Kuban. And surviving pockets in southern russia and Volga. In our national history, we hold such a team "klin", like a wedge or small territory somewhere. We have 4 of...

This is from Russian state TV. Celebration of some holiday. At 2 minute mark, they are walking through the village singing in UKRAINIAN.

This is precisely what happened in my family though. When I visited my family there back in 96 this is the family story they told me. Right after WW2, when soviets were coming back, the commissar who was doing census work simply changed their last name of Zayets, "rabbit" to more Russian...

Agreed. They even have their origin in Zaporozhian Sich. When Catherine 2nd liquidated Coxsackie state in Ukraine, those people moved to Kuban.

You simply don't know what you ate talking about. Most of population of Kuban ire still ethnic Ukrainians even if they don't self identify as such. They still sing their holiday songs in Ukrainian. Reason why so many Ukrainians self identify as Russians is cultural genocide from the side of...

Well, Dnipro is not dammed, thus creating Dnipro "sea". Ukraine does not flood that Valley, retaining all that farmland. No Crimea channel, so Crimea remains arid semi-desert that it was before the "gifting". Russian colonists fail as OTL, Crimea has no agricultural output, relying on...

What if when the middle eastern borders were drawn, the powers to be decided to attach Alavite coast to Lebanon and give Lebanese Suni hinterland to Syria. How would that affect things?

Complete BS on many points. First of all, this divide of east vs west ukraine was not as big as now. Even Donbass was a lot more Ukrainian than it is now. Mass Rusification of eastern Ukraine happened in 50s and 60s. Second of all, collaborationists. There was A LOT more russians fighting FOR...

A while ago on the old boards someone had an idea if poisoning the land. I dont remember the details, but someone said that there was a chemical that can make the land basically unfit for human presense. So what if Germans create a line 50 km or however deep it needs to be to basically be a no...

Thats the point. Try to tear down ethnic identification and nationalism and replace it with regional identification.

What about breaking down Serbia further during early Titos reign. Making Banat and Voivodina separate republics, along with Kosovo. This would make Serbia weaker over all. Maybe creating Serbian Krajina out of Croatia to placate serbians little bit. Basically making yugoslavia federation of...

Which brings an interesting point. Say some ships try to run away from plague and sail west in hopes of something... Eventually they make it Americas. Its a couple ships tops, not viable enough to sustain a colony so it fails and they die out, but not before giving plague and smallpox to the...

My wife grew up in Tajikistan and according to her, one of the subgroups of Tajiks, called "mountain Tajiks" by the Russians, has a high prevalence of red hair. They still look like Iranians and Tajiks skinwise and facial features but many of them have red hair.

so what if they see it as punishment from God destroying their old world and in panic they have mass exodus to the new world?

Transdnistria had a seccesionist movement precisely because there was talk in Moldavia of joining Rumania. Thats why the war started. Also during the war Transdnistria had Russian military stationed there, and they did help transdnistrians by giving them weapons and other help. Moldavia stoped...