• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s a lot of words to say “I didn’t read the article so I don’t know why the Russian invasion of Ukraine is related to this subject”.

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      1 year ago

      I’m saying the Russian invasion doesn’t justify deporting Russians living in Lithuania for no other reason, just like how the war with Japan didn’t justify putting Japanese people in concentration camps.

      The Russian government are using Russians living in neighboring countries as an excuse to invade them, but it’s not like they wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if there weren’t any Russians there. It’s obviously a pretense, and has nothing to do with the ACTUAL Russians living in Lithuania.

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        1 year ago

        It’s okay, I’ll read it again for you. Won’t take long to get there since the second paragraph says this:

        The rejections follow the introduction of a mandatory questionnaire … [including] questions on the Russian war in Ukraine and whether Crimea belongs to Kyiv.

        This suggests that they were chosen for providing answers in line with Putin’s batshit fantasy of the new Russian empire.