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Happy editing! Fettlemap (talk) 04:46, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

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Please stop attacking other editors, as you did on Talk:Volga Germans. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Mellk (talk) 17:24, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Also: see WP:Assume good faith. Obviously, there is disagreement between you and Mellk on the topic of Volga Germans. Calling their edits "malicious" even though they have provided a rationale (regardless of whether they are right or wrong in the end) clearly is an assumption of bad faith on their part. Discuss edits, not editors. Branding your interlocutor as a "vandal" is a personal attack. –Austronesier (talk) 17:31, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

There was no Genocide against Russia Germans

Germans were not the only ethnic group, which was affected by an aggressive Policy of Assimilation in Imperial Russia and those kind of policy was also practised by a lot of other countries against different ethnic groups, but no one calls for example the aggressive Italianization policy in South Tyrol by Fascist Italy or the aggressive policy of Turkification of Kurds in Turkey a Genocide. There was never a racist-motivated policy of persecution or mass killings in Tsarist Russia or the USSR (which was an explicite polyethnic state that had also leaders who belonged to ethnic minorities) against ethnic minorities. Ethnic minorities were surely discriminated but they were not persectued or annihiliated. The massacres against Jews in the late 19th century in Russian Empire were not planned, organized and initiated by the government and the perpetrators were mainly Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Balts and Moldovans. The Deportation of ethnic minorities had not the aim of annihilation of them, but there is no doubt, that there were crimes against humanity. The treatment of German Prisoners of war in occupied Germany by Western Allies, especially the Americans and French, in the so-called Rheinwiesen camps or the British Blockade against Imperial and Weimar Germany were very brutal but both are not clasified as Genocides. The Thesis that Russia Germans were victims of a Genocide was made up by American and other Anglo-Saxon Historians. There was also no continuity between the discrimination policy against ethnic minorities of Tsarist Russia and USSR and the minority policy of the last one also changed fundamentally because the early USSR under Lenin was more tolerant towards minorities. 88.66.152.29 (talk) 15:49, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

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