The palestinians also did not have a national sense of self untill they were occupied for the better half of a century … The german national identity needed Napoleon to really take of (and many more work Like that )

And ‘mono ethnic states’ was bog standart for emerging nationalnstates - it just took some.places longer to create a national state and the according nationalism - hardly anything specific about ‘the slavic mind’

Well they had the downside of the russian army being at their borders and a massive russian speaking minority …

If one Cares for morals: Bosch is 94℅ owened by a charitable foundation which usually donates between 100 and 300 Million a year to charitable causes

Havent tried out zorinOS but so far i never hat problems running games under Linux : steam + proton experimental just makes it as easy AS downloading via steam and hitting the play button - literally die nothing else (have used Linux mint first now Debian - Debian required a bit oft fiddeling for steam but not with individual games)

Can it run banking apps ?

So you truly believe that the dprk is in fact democratic ?
Oh and btw. Just cause a country has elections doesnt mean it isnt a monarchy

And yes the Kim family only receives a wage … They arnt different from regular people - they just habe certain priviliges that noone else has - linke Sendung your children to private schools in switzerland - totally the same as a ricefarmer

So … What would you discribe the country AS ? A country with an extremly poor pollpulace (which used to be Richer than south Korea btw) in which one family always gets to decide who is in power ?

A country which errects walls arround itself to keep people in ?

I dont habe to rely in reports of all the human rights violations - just the fact that apparently i. A country of millions only one family gets to rule says a lot

I will never understand why left leaning people feel the need to defend a state which is essentially a heridetary monarchy disguised AS communist … ?