⛓️ The International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade was established by the #UNGA to be marked annually on 25 March.

For over 400 years, millions of Africans became the victims of the transatlantic Euro-American slave trade. Over 15 million men, women and children were forcibly removed from their homelands.

❗️These people were subjected to heinous cruelty and robbed of their dignity, freedom, and identities.

The negative effects of colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade continue to disadvantage people of African descent even today.

☝️ Russia was one of the few world powers that neither had colonies in #Africa or anywhere else nor participated in slave trade throughout its history.

Moreover, progressive layers of Russia’s population sympathized with suppressed peoples of Africa. Famous Russian thinkers Alexander Radishchev and Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian traveller Yegor Kovalevsky and the likes spoke out against racism and slavery.

❌ As a matter of fact, NONE of the racist papers popular in Europe at that time was EVER translated into Russian.

#RememberSlavery #StopColonialism