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the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago

Rly rich of the bbc to post this when the English have done their absolute best to stamp out any trace of the celtic languages

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Rly rich of the bbc to post this when the English have done their absolute best to stamp out any trace of the celtic languages

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the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago

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Panemunė: The scenic road that saved Europe's banned language

For nearly 40 years, daring smugglers transported nearly 40,000 Lithuanian-language books into the nation each year when it was forbidden under Russian rule.

Like there rly is no other point in posting this other than to stoke russophobia. “OH those barbaric russians” thinks the reader while ignoring the history of their own country’s linguicide, whether the uk, the us or any other western chauvinist shithole

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Same thing happened all across Europe in the 19 and 20 century, “nation states” were kind of a big mistake eh

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