You really had no issue with the repression of ethnic russians ...
Which consisted of what, precisely?
in regions that historically were Russian before Lenin?
Are you suggesting that there's some magical, enduring quality to the Russian Empire's territorial claims? Is every place the Russian Empire managed to sit on for a while ipso facto "historically Russian" -- and we should just accept this description at face value?
And before these regions were supposedly "Russian" -- what were they? What kind of people were living there? What became of them?
Would you refer to Okinawa as "historically Japanese", or Algeria as "historically French"?
Which consisted of what, precisely?
in regions that historically were Russian before Lenin?
Are you suggesting that there's some magical, enduring quality to the Russian Empire's territorial claims? Is every place the Russian Empire managed to sit on for a while ipso facto "historically Russian" -- and we should just accept this description at face value?
And before these regions were supposedly "Russian" -- what were they? What kind of people were living there? What became of them?
Would you refer to Okinawa as "historically Japanese", or Algeria as "historically French"?
Enlighten us, please.