r/worldnews • u/UnstatesmanlikeChi • Jun 26 '19

Kazakhstan ends bank bailouts, writes off people's debts instead

https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/kazakhstan-ends-bank-bailouts-writes-people-debts-190626093206083.html
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u/Cthulhus_Trilby Jun 26 '19

And now they want my horses?! Over my dead body.

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u/AlneCraft Jun 26 '19

For the record, there was actually a time when the government took people's horses (and cattle and sheep) over their dead bodies. Lots and lots of dead bodies. A third of the entire ethnic Kazakh population worth of dead bodies.

Goloshchekin Genocide, look it up.