Just a little bit of context: There was a video floating around about the Russian poet Pushkin, who was of African descent. Several commenters started a narrative that must mean Russia wasn’t racist. ALSO‼️Russia wasn’t part of the transatlantic slave trade because they weren’t an Atlantic power NOT because they opposed slavery or weren’t racist. They didn’t control any West African territories, they weren’t sailing in the Atlantic trade routes, and they had no plantations in the Americas. Russi