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LuvNewcastle

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15. I think we know enough about Russia's history to judge

Reply to Douglas Carpenter (Reply #14)

Sun Mar 30, 2014, 01:49 PM

Mar 2014

whether or not they would allow this. Russia itself is made up of many ethnicities, such as the Cossacks. Russia would be harder to control if each of them decided they wanted to have an autonomous region, and I don't think Putin would stand for that. No Russian ruler in the past would have stood for it, either. Nor would we allow it in the U.S.

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Crimea Tatar community votes to seek ethnic and territorial autonomy [View all] Duckhunter935 Mar 2014 OP

Russia is super nice. I'm sure they'll honor the will of just about anybody! cthulu2016 Mar 2014 #1

I reckon I'll have me some of the big'uns jberryhill Mar 2014 #2

being that I have never lived in Crimea and in fact don't know anyone (that I'm aware of) that has Douglas Carpenter Mar 2014 #3

Doubt it. NuclearDem Mar 2014 #4

the vote is for autonomy - not independence Douglas Carpenter Mar 2014 #9

The Tatars were Europe's slave traders. former9thward Mar 2014 #5

I hope that what any of our ancestors ceased doing 250 years ago no longer caries a Karmic debt Douglas Carpenter Mar 2014 #6

The ramifications of slave holding in the U.S. carries on to this very day. former9thward Mar 2014 #7

Slavery was common in west Africa for millenia AngryAmish Mar 2014 #8

call me a bleeding heart - but I don't hold anything against anyone for something they had nothing Douglas Carpenter Mar 2014 #10

WOW. NuclearDem Mar 2014 #11

I have NEVER heard a more rightwing, reactionary retrograde statement ever made on DU! Douglas Carpenter Mar 2014 #12

If an ethnic group voted for an autonomous region in the U.S. ... JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2014 #13

Autonomous (but not independent) regions are not that unusual of a concept. I honestly don't know Douglas Carpenter Mar 2014 #14

I think we know enough about Russia's history to judge LuvNewcastle Mar 2014 #15