18. May 2022

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2014 Rally in Taras Shevchenko Park in Kyiv, Ukraine Commemorating Deportation of Crimean Tatars. (kaktuse, https://tinyurl.com/mr3b7668; CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)

The massacre in Bucha near Kyiv, committed by Russian soldiers a few weeks ago, came as a shock to many citizens of liberal democratic countries. They shouldn’t be so surprised. Genocide is actually a traditional method of Russian “politics.” What happened in Bucha and what is now happening in Mariupol and other Ukrainian cities—murder, torture, and rape of Ukrainians—is perfectly in keeping with the historical practice of ethnic cleansing long carried out by Russia in Ukraine and elsewhere. Such atrocities, because of the machinations of the perpetrator, have been insuff

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