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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tatars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_genocide_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dislocation_of_S%C3%A1mi_people_from_Jukkasj%C3%A4rvi_and_Karesuando
Yet, in each case, there is very distinctly a lesser evil between each of those nations and the fucking Nazis, and it ain't the Nazis.
The Sami people were deported from Norway, sent to "education camps" in Sweden where they were stripped down naked and photographed for "studies". They were taught to be "Norwegian" and to rid themselves of any Sami practices. Kids were moved moved to cities and other parts of the country so that they would be as far away from family as possible. It was borderline slavery and I assume there were deaths linked to this kind of treatment of indigenous people.
Luckily that has changed for the better in Norway. We have radio stations, TV stations and signage in Sami. There's a lot of money being put into educating kids and adults for what the country did, and there's a lot of discussion on how to make Norwegian websites more friendly to the Sami (translations etc).
This is the way to move forward. Only by understanding and spreading awareness of the cruelties of the past can we avoid repeating them.
Tbh that's the only way forward. Trying to hide the past only makes the current issues worse, and I assume facilitates a more divided country.
I truly wish Romania would do the same with Roma people here. The culture is still very racist towards them without any actual understanding of what Romanians did to cause this to happen in the first place.
Short version: slavery followed by mass murder during WW2 (not on the scale of the Jews, but still pretty bad) followed by forced assimilation of the style described above against the Sami.