Quote (ofthevoid @ 31 Mar 2023 21:37)
Your posts read as that as of someone that's an armchair keyboard warrior tbh. As someone that's been to western Ukraine before and after 2014 and has roots in eastern Europe you're just kind of clueless on the dynamics, no offense. Your whole framing is that of some bondaged people breaking away from the yoke of some genocidal neighbor is completely nonsensical. You'd see how nonsensical it is if you actually been there in the past and saw Ukrainians, even in many parts of the west speaking Russian, having a grandmother or a cousin living in Russia, having a wife that's half Russian and so on. My wife's aunt who's from western Ukraine used to do business regularly in Russia prior to 2014 and it was her main source of revenue. Ukraine's relationship was very close to what we see here with Canada, a far cry from the nonsense you're framing.
Vast majority of people there didn't really view what happened early during communism as genocide or whatever because there was famine and suffering across the board. Ukrainians, Russians, Moldovans, Belarusians, etc many suffered. But in your mainstream 'current thing' fed narrative it was only Ukrainians dying from famine. But I shouldn't be surprised that once again your take landed on what's the most popular take today, something that I consistent observed with you throughout years of posting on here.
"We are all suffering" violons... I would feel dirty.
Russian Grand Ma & Grand Pa don't care for crimes done on ukrainians, they are even encouraging it. Their well being should not be a priority... At all.