• @robolemmy
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    321 month ago

    Russia should just be called Rus, to get back to their small time roots.

    • Diplomjodler
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      221 month ago

      The name you’re looking for is Muscovy.

        • Diplomjodler
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          171 month ago

          Why would you want to saddle the poor Ukrainians with that shithole? Let them stew in their own idiocy.

        • @[email protected]
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          1 month ago

          Not an expert but I’d count Ukraine as its modern day successor. With Kyiv being capital and all

        • @Dasus
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          21 month ago

          Let’s not try to determine that based on just what sound like “Russia”.

          From your link

          Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, and Finnic,

          The etymology of “Rus” is from “rowers”, and that wasn’t always exactly clear on the Baltic Sea who it mean.

          You see while the people on the western shores used that word to refer to the eastern shores, we here on the northern shores used it to refer to people’s from the south. And we couldn’t really tell whether they came from southeast or southwest.

          Which is what the Finnish name for Russia is “Venäjä” and for Sweden it’s “Ruotsi”.

  • @Valmond
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    281 month ago

    Perfect, except we should IMO do away with the name “Russia” so that it can be forgotten in history like other old “empires”.

    Denuclerisation + protection à la west germany for 50 years.

      • @PugJesusOPM
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        101 month ago

        Let’s not imitate Russian genocides, shall we?

        • @Dasus
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          81 month ago

          “An eye for an eye makes the whole world a progressive utopia.”

          — That guy, probably

          • @PugJesusOPM
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            71 month ago

            You do realize there’s a vast range of possibilities that lay between ‘nice’ and ‘genocide’, right?

    • AnIndefiniteArticle
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      91 month ago

      Now that’s a strategy to turn the tide of the Ukrainian invasion. Turn it into a two-front war!

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    Petersburg has no business extending its influence so far north and east, Volga is hoarding all access to the black sea-going river, mashing up Chechnya Dagestan and Ingushetia into a single entity is the instant noodles of ethnic cleansing.

    Don’t know enough about the eastern parts to comment, but split each chunk into 3 more parts to be sure.

  • @x00z
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    51 month ago

    This seems great.

  • AItoothbrush
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    41 month ago

    So many nice places in a shit country. So sad that i will never be able to visit siberia because of the russians. I hope it breaks up into little pieces.

  • Resol van Lemmy
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    21 month ago

    I always thought Dooland was a better name.

  • @[email protected]
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    -231 month ago

    Long term US goal still fantasized about. UN seal on this is shocking, but proof of US corruption over UN processes.

    Anyway, western disinformation that motivates people to aspire to such demonism is self destructive. It is demonism because the purpose of Balkanizing Russia is to make it dysfunctional, where democracy is a corruption vector for CIA as it is in the west or Georgia/Ukraine/Navalny.