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Sunday, June 27th, 2010 01:09 pm
I keep running into assertions like this(actual quote):
<i>When I was growing up, there was no Estonia, except in historical reference. The map at that time showed the gigantic USSR, stretching from East Germany through twelve time zones, so far to the east it bumped into the boundary of the west, across the Aleutians from Alaska.</i>.

It's not true.  There was an Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.  It was on the maps in my atlas.

And like this(rememberered paraphrase):
<i>The Soviets tried to obliterate the Czech language, but they didn't succeed</i>

Again, not true.  One of the things that the Soviet Union did as a matter of policy was to cultivate national and minority languages.  It was a crucial part of domestic and foreign policy.  It was especially true in any place where the logical alternative language was German.

Let's accuse governments of the crimes they did commit, and not the ones they didn't.