03-19-2007, 09:38 AM
Don't fret. The alternative would have been Russian... :wink:
Ask your Estonian cousins about the delights of Russification... 8)
There are bad colonialists and there are really bad colonialists...ask the Guanches. Oops, silly of me...there are no more Guanches. How about the Tasmanians? Darn, they're gone as well...
But, as a former victim of vile Spanish Imperialist colonialism, I sympathise with the plight of the Finns!
[size=75:2omw9stp](now let's not get into details about Dutch colonialist excesses, the slave trade or the 500,000 dead of the Atjeh War. Really, we're harmless and cuddly!:mrgreen: [/size]
Ask your Estonian cousins about the delights of Russification... 8)
There are bad colonialists and there are really bad colonialists...ask the Guanches. Oops, silly of me...there are no more Guanches. How about the Tasmanians? Darn, they're gone as well...
But, as a former victim of vile Spanish Imperialist colonialism, I sympathise with the plight of the Finns!
[size=75:2omw9stp](now let's not get into details about Dutch colonialist excesses, the slave trade or the 500,000 dead of the Atjeh War. Really, we're harmless and cuddly!:mrgreen: [/size]
Andreas Baede
