Skip to main content

mastodon - Link to source

This is also a major issue on Wikipedia at the moment: Russian trolls have been trying to change the birthplaces of Baltic figures to Estonian/Latvian/Lithuanian SSR — which, if successful, means that Wikipedia is recognising an occupation as legitimate (which major Western nations, including the US, did not even do at the time).

#Wikipedia #wikimedia #wiki #Baltic #Baltics #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #russia #russiaUkraineWar #news #ussr #soviet #histodons #UkraineWar

“ LAlIIVILLL LL inAVLUAL a Author, Dublin, Ireland Touché from the Balts ese The Financial Times, a publication of based in the former Roman province, an Anglo-Saxon settlement zone, and a rm | possession of the Dukes of Normandy, keeps referring to the Baltic states, which were occupied by the Soviet | Union for over 50 years, as “former re * | Soviet republics” (“Europe already ‘at e | war with Russia, says Latvia's central | banker”, Report, January 18). | Perhaps the FT does not know that ess- | the UK did not recognise Soviet bi 3 sovereignty over them and that the ns | British view is that they were never ges | Soviet republics. : | Pfr Sine leaked y of California, San Diego, nd Russell on Marx, hate Glad ow 3%es
#News #Russia #wikipedia #wiki #USSR #wikimedia #Latvia #Estonia #lithuania #Baltic #Soviet #UkraineWar #RussiaUkraineWar #histodons #baltics
This entry was edited (3 days ago)

reshared this

⇧