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Every thread on this board ends up in the same argument, so let's count instead. One letter each. Reason optional, short is better.

A Washington
B Moscow
C Beijing
D the neighbours (Astana, Tashkent, Bishkek)
E the tech companies
F the DPI
G nobody, it's non-recognition
H other (explain)

I'll count on the 24th.

A B C D E F. All of them. It is a TEAM. G is for people who work for F.

Ak_Shumkar posted:

A B C D E F

One letter, Ak.

A. Final answer. Look for the air base on the map. NOT THERE either. They erased their own base first, and then the country around it so nobody asks about the base. Simple.

WAKE UP IRAD

G. sorry

G. Explained at length in 2013, will not repeat.

D. In Nurzhan every grandmother says it is the Kazakhs. In fairness my grandmother also says the weather is the Kazakhs.

E. The companies. They don't hate us, they don't care, and not caring is worse. My family has some experience with being moved by people who didn't care.

H. The ISO standard's maintenance procedures. Technically nobody holds the eraser; procedurally everybody does. I am aware this answer is unbearable.

In 1992 they shelled the map. Now they only erase it. This is progress.

D.

E, with half of an A. I live among Americans. Nobody here has an eraser. They have something worse: they have never heard of us. Forgetting is not an office.

UncleTemir_Chicago posted:

with half of an A

Half. Of course half. The other half is on the Association letterhead.

B? Moscow erased Kobozev first. Then we renamed it ourselves. So technically F. I'm confused, put me down as Vyshka.

G, with a red pen for whoever corrected "Irad" to "Iraq" on my nephew's university application.

C because my computer was made there and it freezes when I type Irad in the search. (maybe not related) sorry

F. They complain about the maps on television and block websites the rest of the week. I'm not saying they started it. I'm saying they're comfortable with it.

H: the writers' room of a certain cartoon. (Joke. The timeline thread exists. Read it.)

Count, as promised. 13 voters (Ak counted once, as A, his final answer):

A 1.5 (Ak, half of Temir)
B 0 (Dima moved himself)
C 1
D 2
E 1.5
F 2 (Kobozev_Kid, Dima)
G 3
H 2

So the winner is "nobody", by one vote. dotted_line_ok will be unbearable. Thank you all.

Late vote. D.

A horse knows who is looking at it over the fence. Three neighbours are looking.

H. Nobody holds it alone. Erasure in history is almost never one man with an eraser. It's a thousand clerks each leaving out one line, and none of them feeling responsible. The Church has a word for that kind of sin. It's "omission".