So, a lot of all of them were killed. Especially one side.
Even the Holocaust, not technically a genocide, Germans killing off other German and non German Jews and partial Jews. Germans also killed gypsies and partial gypsies I guess, and various others. That's not technically a single quote genocide. It's just a fricking slaughter.
It's not nice, but terms matter.
French Revolution, the Terror, genocide? No way.
European wars of religion, hundreds of years of intermittent slaughter of Catholics or Protestants. Genocide? No way, baby!
French Revolution, the Terror, genocide? No way.
European wars of religion, hundreds of years of intermittent slaughter of Catholics or Protestants. Genocide? No way, baby!
So they tried to kill off a whole lot of Russians. Was that attempted genocide or not? That comes closer, frankly, to the meaning of the term, but it is a very loosey goosey term, let's turn and face it.
Not genocide. Tribal warfare. Category error. Krugman moron stuff.
On the other hand, some of the large scale population replacements one sees recounted in David Reich's and others paleogenetics research:
That's Genocide! No mixture there, baby!
The West should have let it be, laissez faire, so to speak, a popular term in the West.
Matter of fact, the West did let it be.
Here's what Americans think of as a Tutsi
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