they're the ultimate counter to thirdie cope  third-worlders crying about colonialism need to look at the slavs.  > invaded and enslaved by the mongols for centuries  > brutalized by the ottomans in the balkans  > constantly fought over by germans, austrians, and swedes  > carved up and erased from the map (see: poland)  > entire populations starved, deported, or genocided by both nazis and soviets in the 20th century  despite all this, slavs didnt cry about it forever. they rebuilt. they fought for independence. and now theyre some of the only countries in europe with functioning families and rising birth rates.  if slavs can survive literal centuries of colonialism and foreign domination, whats the excuse of indians and other thirdies?
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