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Re:Finland Buying a Million Landmines by tim333 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:59AM (#50180185)
Depends in which language. Apparently in Russian it comes out like the borderlands but in Ukrainian it is one word meaning land or our land. In English it depends a bit if you consider it a country or some rebellious Russian border areas.
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Re:Finland Buying a Million Landmines by ohihcocyc on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:06AM (#50180287)
They’re aware of what they were saying. You don’t make a response about political correctness unless you’re trying to make a political statement.
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Re:Finland Buying a Million Landmines by SanjayMehta on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:41PM (#50204243)
Their language chauvinism is a sign of insecurity and indeed caused their current predicament: The Ukraine is the only country in the world which has banned a language: Russian.
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