• What_Religion_R_They [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Of course the difference here is that Lugansk and Donetsk have separatist movements that want to join Russia, much like what happened in Crimea. Also, even if it were comparable, what's left of Palestine is barely a city. There's no luxury of having a whole country to retreat to.

    • Discola@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Where did those separatist movements come from? Surely Russia didn't send thousands of people into Eastern Ukraine over generations after the second world war to settle, strengthen ties with Moscow, and extract wealth from the region. Why, that would make them colonizers!

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Please read some book over the topic, who are Ruthenians and how they became Russians and Ukrainians. And how ukraininsation of Ruthenian and Russian population there been politics since 1918.

      • duderium [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Gogol definitely wasn’t referring to Ukraine as “Little Russia” in his stories. /s

      • Sinister [none/use name, comrade/them]B
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        1 year ago

        Lol the Ukrainian ssr literally enforced Ukrainianization policies. Russians and Ukrainians settled most of modern Southern Ukraine in tandem, Ukrainians are not "native" to half of their country. Ukraine and Russia's division is a very recent phenomenon started by Austro-Hungarian imperialists.