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RoofClinger t1_j951b5i wrote

Reply to comment by raspberrily in Ukrainian Children Taken By Russia Reunite With Their Families In Kyiv by Strongbow85

Historically, it's a pretty common way to wipe out a culture/people. Take the children of the unwanted culture and place them in homes of the desired culture to assimilate them and ultimately purge remnants of the unwanted culture. Canada/US/Australia did it to indigenous people, and Soviet Russia did it to a lot of cultural groups. They would also commonly execute local community leaders and replace them with Russians to solidify their hold on the territories they gained.

Russia is just trying to assimilate Ukrainians into Russia and make it really, really difficult to ever disentangle them for generations to come.

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german_european t1_j95485q wrote

It's gruesome. Just to add to yours: It happens in the millions right about NOW this day alone to thousands of children in China. It's so normal now that nobody talks about it. Tibetan and Uighur children are basically every day shipped to "schools" to become real HAN humans. Everything else is garbage in the eyes of the CCP GOD XI.

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Blue_Moon_Rabbit t1_j95mht3 wrote

The Rez schools were happening until very recently in Canada, and to this day despite the country’s fantastic PR, the indigenous in my country are still largely discriminated against, to the point they still to this day get turned away from hospitals in some places.

Also we have The Highway of Tears where indigenous women are murdered with depressing regularity.

And the worst part is I had to learn all this on my own, since they don’t teach us that.

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westernmail t1_j96cukr wrote

I think the Sixties Scoop might be what OP was referring to, but it was all part and parcel of the great injustice done to indigenous people in Canada.

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Sixties Scoop

>The Sixties Scoop was a period in which a series of policies were enacted in Canada that enabled child welfare authorities to take, or "scoop up," Indigenous children from their families and communities for placement in foster homes, from which they would be adopted by white families. Despite its name referencing the 1960s, the Sixties Scoop began in the mid-to-late 1950s and persisted into the 1980s. It is estimated that a total of 20,000 Indigenous children were taken from their families and fostered or adopted out primarily to white middle-class families as part of the Sixties Scoop.

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0b_101010 t1_j956q81 wrote

The entire history of Muscovy -> Russia -> SU is basically a litany of the worst aspects of imperialism. Russian history is an unending line of forgotten genocides and atrocities.

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paintwithice t1_j95z5ab wrote

The US is still doing it, ICWA is under fire because a Christian family is trying to adopt a native child because they feel called by God to spiritual save children and bring them to the church - which is exactly what ICWA was designed to stop.

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