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Anyway. Dimitri Lascaris. Interesting fellow. Let's see what Reddit has to say about him.
Canadian lawyer 'Dimitry'
He's Greek.
Dimitry is slavic name, Rus version of it is Dmitry, without first ''I''. He is more likely to have Ukrainian, Bulgarian or Serbian ancestors then Russian, with that spelling.
He's Greek. Look at his last name. Google it if you need to.
Dimitri. Yes. A very common Canadian name.
ARGH. Canada has had a Greek community for five and a half times longer than Ukraine has been a sovereign state, you bag of compost.
Is this thread just a panoply of dumb motherfuckers doing dumb motherfucker things, like the rest of Reddit, or have pro-Ukraine factions been trying to memory-hole the existence of Greek people? Why on Earth would they do that?
Him being Greek aside, none of what the r*dditor said about the Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian or Russian versions/spellings of the name is correct, it's not even Slavic originally, for that matter. How are people that confident about things they're clueless about?