https://twitter.com/MaximEristavi/status/1495323069539405826

A thread on #RussianColonialism with many examples of the past 100 years in which regions strived for independence from Russia in decolonial wars:

1917-18 crimean tatar
1918 idel-ural
1917-20 kuban cossacks
1917-32 ukraine
1917-20 azerbaijan
1917-20 armenia
1917-20 estonia
1917-24 georgia
1917-21 Bashkortostan
1918. latvia
1918 lithuania
1918 belarus
1918-45 north caucasus
1919-22 karelia
1920 central asia (bukhara)
1929-30 northern afghanistan
1924 tungus republic
1927 yakutia
1929-44 tannu-tuva
1930 kazakhstan
1930-43 crimean tatars
1933 khanty
1934-43 nenets
1932 dolgans
1939 moscow invades poland
1939 invades finland
1940 invades and annexes romania
1953 east germany
1956 hungary
1968 czechoslovakia
1986 kazakhstan

« moscow is awfully uncreative. in the last one hundred years #RussianColonialism has been using the same invasion and occupation tactic over and over and over again » (from the thread)