That's good point. Honestly, my reply was just mocking the libs who call everything Russia does ImPeRiAlIsM and there wasn't much more thought put into it.
To the extent that there was deliberate ethnic cleansing under Imperial Russia (and to some extent the USSR) it wasn't ethnic Ukrainians being displaced from Novorossiya, it was Tatars displaced from Crimea.
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That's good point. Honestly, my reply was just mocking the libs who call everything Russia does ImPeRiAlIsM and there wasn't much more thought put into it.
Reverence for the Roman Empire?
Ave Caesar!
To the extent that there was deliberate ethnic cleansing under Imperial Russia (and to some extent the USSR) it wasn't ethnic Ukrainians being displaced from Novorossiya, it was Tatars displaced from Crimea.