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and also because the answer is no one. you fucking idiots. like just to use a widely accepted definition, indigenous means “(of people) inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists.” this applies to no one in Donbass! because, not to become that fucking meme of putin saying he will give a quick explanation and then yapping for 30 straight minutes, donbass was virtually uninhabited until 1650 onwards, when it was permanently settled mostly by don cossacks, and in lesser numbers by russians and refugees from ottoman occupied ukraine. prior to this donbass was *very* sparsely populated by tatar and nogai nomads, who by the time of migration by the cossacks, russians and ukrainians had mostly travelled north east to the volga region (although some stuck around and would assimilate with the more urbanised tatar population who would later migrate to the region after the conquering of cossack hetmanate and crimean khanate) (shout out my uncle’s father’s ancestry ig). after the aforementioned conquering of cossack hetmanate and crimean khanate, russians, ukrainians, jews, greeks, serbs, tatars, germans all migrated from around the russian empire to donbass to begin working the coal fields. donetsk was founded by a welshman for fucks sake. and 300 years after permeant settlement began ukrainians just barely, by the skin of there teeth, scraped by into being the majority ethnic group in the region. in 1918 when the ukrainian people’s republic joined with the central powers the soviets in donbass declared that donbass was now the donetsk–krivoy rog soviet republic, part of the rsfsr but the ukrainian bolsheviks actually said no lol and made them part of the ukrainian soviet republic a month after they had declared that, and then themselves got occupied by the ukrainian people’s republic in april.

ALLLLL of this to say that when you say stuff like this

you sound insane

if we follow this stupid logic which makes no sense in the context of eastern europe to its natural conclusion i guess we have to give donbass to tatarstan and *checks notes* were do most nogai live… stavropol krai 💀

Performative self-flagellation over being white is not a substitute for doing serious introspection about the ways you have been complicit in or rewarded by a white-supremacist society, nor doing the work to dismantle white supremacy.