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Any history book would tell you as much. Russians historically comprised close to 80% of the population. Other minorities were non-European and on par with their non-European counterparts in mentality, religion and culture. I don’t think that the OP is interested in Chechens, Tatars, Bashkirs, Yakuts, Buryats, and other [b]forty[/b] or so ethnic minorities. Some of these minorities also participated in the wider Russian culture and politics. The Jewish minorities actively contributed to Russian culture and science, for instance, and many were persecuted and discriminated against, which made them change their names and hide their identity.[/quote]

Forty?  Dagestan ALONE has over eighty ethnicities, you dolt!

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Europe was more prosperous and educated than Russia. And the countries that were colonized by Europeans had roads, hospitals, schools and now enjoy a richer life and better opportunities than the equivalent never colonized countries. Look up the statistics, and former colonies would have much better living standards. [/quote]

Oooh that's right, white people left them much better off, what are they complaining about!  Hey, if I leave your daughter better off than her neighbor, may I colonize her for a few years?
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I’m not an expert on ethnic minorities. Do any of these minorities, whatever their number, have at least one scientist, world known novelist, composer, architect, philosopher, Nobel prize winner, inventor - at least one per each minority?

The daughter is not an equivalent comparison. The fact is former colonies are now better off than the never colonized countries. I will leave out your racie-related remarks. You can look at some native human sacrifice rituals and cannibalism that were no longer in place after colonization. You intellectually can’t understand apples to apples comparison.[/quote]

You aren't?  What else aren't you an expert on and yet have confidently opined on?  You're saying an ethnic group has to produce a Nobel prize winner to be counted as human in your book?

Perhaps the daughter remark was too subtle for you, so here's the blunt version: roads, hospitals and schools aren't a good price for getting colonized.  And since you're getting all "intellectual", let's not forget a basic truth that colonizers weren't in the colonies to build roads, schools or hospitals, they were there to get stuff. To extract resources they didn't own. To steal, pillage and plunder, by force if necessary. Schools and hospitals (and prisons and amputated thumbs) were just a side effect. [/quote]
Mostly correct
You forgot to mention that before colonialism the land was invaded by another people that came to plunder the inhabitants
And those inhabitants had hunted the previous people who lived in the land

And the one people that came to blunder before colonialism were on the run from an even bigger nation

Oh, the Arab and Portuguese slave trade

By the way, that is history. It is what woke up the entire continent and thrust it into modern age
Stop blaming, it was not a pretty century anywhere

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