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[โ€“] frisbird@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh honey. The European empire may have had violent factional disputes within it, but they all shared the same goal and worked to promote it for well over 400 years, if not 600

[โ€“] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

I was moreso talking about the need to differentiate between the motivations and actions of the Soviet union and the west after WW1 and up until their disillusion in the 90s.