The office who persecuted bible smugglers in the ussr, produced a guy who now runs the whole shop and suddenly is the champion of the bible belt. Stanger alliances have been seen, but not much..
In 1990 Ukraine was part of the same country as Moscow. The USSR had already carried out their programs of ethnic cleansing in Ukraine in the early part of the 20th century (see also the Holodomor and the general scourge of communism).
It'd be a bit weird if they felt a need to culturally reshape Ukraine again after only a few decades of independence. I'm going to be sceptical there is a "cultural genocide" going on here beyond the usual horrors of war and occupation.
Purges a hundred years apart carried out with different purposes can both be genocide.
In practice, the way the ICC is set up, genocide is extremely hard to prove because it relies on proof of intent. However, the children stolen and believers persecuted don’t care what the ICC considers proof.
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While scholars are in consensus that the cause of the famine was man-made,[10][11] whether the Holodomor constitutes a genocide remains in dispute. Some historians conclude that the famine was deliberately engineered by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement.[c] Others suggest that the famine was primarily the consequence of rapid Soviet industrialisation and collectivization of agriculture. A middle position, held for example by historian Andrea Graziosi, is that the initial causes of the famine were an unintentional byproduct of the process of collectivization but once it set in, starvation was selectively weaponized and the famine was "instrumentalized" and amplified against Ukrainians to punish them for their rejection of the "new serfdom" and to break their nationalism.
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