Steinmeier, Genocide, and the Devaluing of Identity

Genocide is about eradicating whole peoples. The starting point for every genocide is, however innocently, devaluing the identities of those who are for the chop.

Source: Journeying · Ten Reasons Why Finding Manuland Matters

In a 2022 museum exhibition catalogue at Halle’s State Museum of Prehistory, the German president wrote of “the southern Russian steppe.” This is Soviet-era propaganda that erased Ukraine from the map. Steinmeier’s stubbornly held Soviet-era perspective on history has had real geopolitical consequences. A similar Russian colonialist view of Ukraine led Hitler to invade Ukraine and massacre one million Ukrainian Jews. Finding Manuland equips us to correct the record.

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