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Originally Posted by StefanG
Let's remind everyone that currently Russia has occupied parts of the Ukraine - not someone to celebrate liberation with. Especially not when they prepare making it official by giving out Russian passports so that at one point they will be able to claim that they only protect their own people.
Where did I hear that before...
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Until the begining of the 20th Century Ukraine was called " Little Russia" and its language was considered just a dialect of Russian. The lands and its people on both sides of the Dnieper river were mostly governed Poles and Austrians and sometime by Tartars. During the 1917 revolution the Slavic population did not want to be governed by Poles ( Catholics) or the Austrians and joined the Red Soviets. For that, Lenin gave the land a status as a Soviet Republic. It remained like that until the demise of USSR. Whatever land todays' Ukraine has, was granted to it by Stalin. Khrushchev ( Stalins' successor and Ukrainian himself) in 1960s gave some bits (including Crimea to it) knowing that USSR will "last a 1000 years" so it did not really mattered.
Today Russians only want what thst idiot Khrushchev gave away to appease his political apparatchiks.
Ukraine should not piss off the Russians and play ball or the history will repeat itself and it will again become a real Little Russia. Russia created this country and may take it away...so wise up.