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Like so many Ukrainian films of the 1960s, Stone Cross functions as a broader allegory for the destruction of the Ukrainian peasantry from the late 19th century until the Holodomor of 1932–33, when Stalin engineered a massive famine that killed millions of Ukrainians.
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Joshua First, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
Quite often, and especially today, language change does not occur from on high (in fact, the top-down imposition of standard national languages on the masses is more a recent feature of post-Enlightenment nationalism; Latin spread in the Roman Empire over centuries among the western peasantry).
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2010
Some of the Khasi were probably assimilated into the post-Munda (Indo-European or Dravidian speaking) peasantry.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2011
Many Protestants even contendthat Christianization of the European peasantry was not completed until after the Reformation.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2012
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Joshua First, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
Quite often, and especially today, language change does not occur from on high (in fact, the top-down imposition of standard national languages on the masses is more a recent feature of post-Enlightenment nationalism; Latin spread in the Roman Empire over centuries among the western peasantry).
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2010
Some of the Khasi were probably assimilated into the post-Munda (Indo-European or Dravidian speaking) peasantry.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2011
Many Protestants even contendthat Christianization of the European peasantry was not completed until after the Reformation.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2012
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