What about the Tatar ethnic minority? The people who would have been the natural majority of Crimea if they hadn't mostly been killed or driven away by Russian imperialists.
The Crimean Tatars enslaved, butchered and destroyed the Russians for almost 400 years, until Russia defeated them in 1783. However, they were allowed to stay in Crimea as Russian citizens. Currently, they comprise 10-12% of the population.
On the other hand, the American Indians warmly welcomed the European migrants in the 16th century when they first arrived at Massachusetts. In return, they were massacred and forcibly assimilated using inhuman means. Until the 1970s Indian children were banned from speaking their native language, which has resulted in the extinction of 99% of the Indian languages.
The Indians also would have been
the natural majority of the US, if they were not killed off by the colonists.
So true, the irony.
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