Shocked with Bucha, Izyum or Mariupol? Well, you shouldn’t be. Here is the Russian story: the centuries of genocides

Katyn, Izium, Bucha. Not much has changed. Russians being Russian. pic.twitter.com/oBS2Y4u5bl

— IllimarLepikvonWirén (@iLepikVonWiren) September 15, 2022

Katyń-Bucza-Izium. pic.twitter.com/nzRKIf6rsG

— Jarek PAPIS-ROZENBAUM (@JarekPapis) September 18, 2022

"No man, no problem."
Russia is the country that has committed the most genocides.
Here is a history of 🇷🇺's relations with its neighbours and with its population 🧵💀
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— Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 (@d_foubert) September 17, 2022

The Circassian genocide in the North Caucasus (XIXth century):
The Russian Empire ethnically cleansed the Circassian people (90%). Between 400 000 and 1 500 000+ dead.
The Circassian genocide is denied by the Russian government.
3/23 pic.twitter.com/lUCSyv9oem

— Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 (@d_foubert) September 17, 2022

The January uprising (1863–1864)
80 000 Poles were exiled to Siberia.
Whole villages and towns were burned down, all economic and social activities were suspended, and the nobility was ruined through the confiscation of property and exorbitant taxes.
5/23 pic.twitter.com/zT0VInNo07

— Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 (@d_foubert) September 17, 2022

The Red terror (1918-1920): ~1 300 000 dead.
50 000 White PoWs and civilians were executed with Lenin's approval in 1920. 800 000 Red Army deserters were arrested and many were killed with their families.
7/23 pic.twitter.com/Ugsd5utcxO

— Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 (@d_foubert) September 17, 2022

Data from the Soviet archives indicates 2,4 million Kulaks were deported from 1930 to 1934.
The reported number of kulaks and their relatives who had died in labour colonies from 1932 to 1940 was 389 000.
9/23 pic.twitter.com/oKu7XunJlX

— Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 (@d_foubert) September 17, 2022

The Katyń massacre: 20 000 Polish military officer prisoners were summarily executed in April and May 1940.
But it's only the tip of the bloody iceberg: at least one-third of the 320 000 Polish prisoners of war captured by the Red Army in 1939 were murdered.
11/23 pic.twitter.com/roPSbRMuzu

— Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 (@d_foubert) September 17, 2022

The soviet occupation of Latvia during the Second World War: ~35 000 Latvians were taken from their homes, loaded onto freight trains and taken to Siberia.
13/23 pic.twitter.com/STKxukfi6V

— Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 (@d_foubert) September 17, 2022

From 1939 to 1941, nearly 1,5 million persons were deported from the Soviet-controlled areas of former eastern Poland deep into the Soviet Union.
15/23 pic.twitter.com/pPWnhKwbea

— Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 (@d_foubert) September 17, 2022

The scale of rape of Polish women in 1945 led to a pandemic of sexually transmitted diseases. The Polish state archives and statistics of the Ministry of Health indicate that the number of victims might have exceeded 100 000.
17/23 pic.twitter.com/H8WJXk7YqT

— Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 (@d_foubert) September 17, 2022

Afghanistan (1979–1989)
Up to 2 million Afghans were killed by the Soviet forces and their proxies.
19/23 pic.twitter.com/hXrl5uzkf2

— Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 (@d_foubert) September 17, 2022

The Second Chechen War (1999-2000):
Around 200 000 civilians dead.
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— Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 (@d_foubert) September 17, 2022

I don't think I have anything more to say, except that we must put an end to this barbaric state, which has no place in the modern world.
This may be the work of a generation or several. In any case, it will be a necessity.
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— Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 (@d_foubert) September 17, 2022

'Polish Operation' 1937-38
According to NKVD documents, 139,835 people were sentenced, of which no less than 111,091 Poles – citizens of the USSR, were murdered with a shot to the back of the head, and 28,744 were sentenced to stay in labor camps.
There were more actions alike

— Gazymir Rublów (@dysydentt) September 18, 2022

Great post Daniel! There are many other crimes that were not mentioned, like the genocide and deportation of Romanian and Moldovan civilians during and after ww2. I grew up with stories of how my grandmother survived, but her whole family (around 15 people) were deported.

— Andy 🇷🇴🇸🇪🇺🇦 NAFO Biolab defens (@kaleygh78) September 18, 2022

The percentage of 5000 men killed and up to 30000 enslaved women and children by Russia of the total population in Finland in 1714-1721 is extremely high. The first reliable census data 410400 is from 1749.https://t.co/1DOJK095Gu

— Jouko Ylä-Liedenpohja (@ylaliedenpohja) September 18, 2022

Not to forget the Urkun amongst mainly Kyrgyz and Kazakh in 1916 that cost the lives of 200 000+ people. https://t.co/5pCipxloG3

— 🇺🇦 Michael Schulte 🌻 🚲 #StandWithUkraine (@MSchlte) September 18, 2022

1708, the Baturyn massacre in Ukraine. Up to 15 000 victims.

— 💙 не журіться, галичанки 💛 (@le0nette) September 18, 2022

Great thread, thank you. The missing genocides: in the 30s over 40% of khazakh people were killed via famine of executions. Over 40 deportation campaigns in 30s and 40s deported various nations to Sibera or Central Asia & roughly 40% of them died as a consequence.

— Never Surrender (@beast_behind) September 18, 2022

when foreigners casually drop ‘bombing of kyiv’ these pics always come to mind. this is what #RussianColonialism did to chechnya and grozny when they tried to leave the empire in 2000. a war crime of horrific scale, but the rest of the world was like ‘meh’, so moscow continued pic.twitter.com/ysiKKArGFz

— максим.еріставі 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@maksymeristavi) February 20, 2022

new drop of exposing #russiancolonialism series: belarus 1917-1953 pic.twitter.com/Vr2eYdfhQR

— максим.еріставі 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@maksymeristavi) September 12, 2022

Shoutout to our Polish allies 🇵🇱 pic.twitter.com/5ZZjDniN9P

— Saint Javelin (@saintjavelin) September 15, 2022