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• Post #4451865

  #BandcampFriday is the perfect day to check in on your favorite bands and buy some new music. My picks today: * #Tradycyja has the debut #Kasary album and a new #Kaliazanki collection, authentic #Belarusian songs by all-men and all-women choirs respectively. * #TodarWajciuszkewicz, seminal bard from #Belarus, released new album Ваячак. * #Litvakus #Kartl (Postcard) is a new EP of traditional Lithuanian Jewish music. * And #BorisGrebenshikov got a whole bunch of new albums and singles out.

• Post #2312078

  @humanhorseshoes Indeed. Jews comprised just under 9% of population of Belarus before WW2, and 90% of them perished in Holocaust. For scale, 25% of population of Belarus perished between 1941 and 1945, i.e. Holocaust consitutes less than half of the killings even when not including the mass executions of Belarusians by Soviets in 1939-1941 (when USSR was still Hitler's ally) at sites such as Kurapaty and Brest Fortress. And Russians still insist on atrributing all these deaths to Nazis,...

• Post #1838411

  40 years ago today #Chernobyl nuclear disaster started. In a rush to earn a promo from #Communist party, NPP's chief engineer went on with a reckless test that led to one of the reactors blowing up. With its usual genocidal indifference to #Belarusian and #Ukrainian lives, #Russia's leaders denied scale and public health implications of the disaster, proceeded with their May parades, and, when the radioactive clouds turned towards #Moscow, had them seeded to land 70% of the fallo...