I was repeatedly told in school that Brazil was the last country to abolish slavery, only to find out recently that places like UAE had not abolished slavery until 1967.

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tedggh 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Most people I talk to don’t know that 80% of Russians were slaves until their emancipation in 1861, as well as a significant amount of Ukrainians, Belarusians, Latvians and Estonians. There were no reparations paid, in fact they had to continue working for free for generations to pay bankers for the same land they have been enslaved for. Then just after the former serfs finally paid their “debt” the Bolsheviks came and took it

	▲	Quarrel 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They took the slavery / serf distinction seriously in the Slavic world. While the distinctions might have mattered in the 1800s, by any modern-slavery standard the serfs were slaves, as you rightly say. Whatever we might now think with hindsight of the communist revolution in Russia, if ever there was a country primed for the peasants to rise up against the ruling class, it was Russia. Russia might have been a land of art, music, dance and literature, but you were pretty fucked if you weren't in the 20%.

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jdiff 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They likely had the qualifier, as does GP, that it was the last country "in the Americas."

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AwaAwa 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is quite interesting, given the UAE was only formed in 1971, and their precursor states only agreed to form the UAE in 1968.

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ffsm8 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As if they stopped... The whole middle east is a shit show in that regard.

And North Korea continues to show that literally nobody cares, really. Because if they did, at least that would've been prevent- or at least stopable with some concessions to China. The North Korean people would've at least been treated as humans if they became part of China and the NK dictator along with the whole government be executed.

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olelele 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I’m sorry but the current NK regime and the Kim family consolidating power is in large part due to American aggression indochina. The Korean War was more or less genocide on the part of the Americans and history would be different without Douglas MacArthur…

	▲	ffsm8 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's just fake history. The US didn't start the Korean war, they helped SK stand free of the oppression of the seriously evil NK government. China then interfered because they didn't want a US aligned country at their border. However there have been decades since the affair settled - and I stand by my opinion that if the US and by extension NATO cares whatsoever, they'd have just told China "we won't interfere as long as you free NK citizens into free people". It would've not been perfect at all, but at least the horrendous reality they are in would've been prevented.

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jauco 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://www.nytimes.com/1967/03/28/archives/saudi-arabian-sl...

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inexcf 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"last country to abolish slavery" vs. "last country to practice slavery"

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Loughla 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, have you ever been to Dubai?

Slavery is "illegal".

I'm convinced that the absolute modernity is only a sideshow attraction for the ultra-wealthy to visit Dubai. The real show is the servants.

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robbie-c 7 hours ago | parent [-]

A family member stayed in a hotel in Dubai recently and on returning said how incredible the staff were and willing they were to help them, and my response was "no shit"

	▲	Loughla 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I went once. It feels like Disney Land but for the wealthy. I'll never go back, and I actually regret going to be honest. It's disgusting and it's right out in the open.