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The fundamental pitch here is that Ukraine is Russian because the languages are similar and the countries shared some history (voluntarily or involuntarily). Bu
by notfromhere 5y ago
The fundamental pitch here is that Ukraine is Russian because the languages are similar and the countries shared some history (voluntarily or involuntarily). But that’s no more an argument than it is for Ireland to be part of the UK.
Ukrainians wanted out of that arrangement because Russia used the country as a colony for exploitation, not any kind of cultural equal
- temo4ka 5y agoThe funny thing about the point about similarity between Russian and Ukrainian languages is that linguists will tell you that Ukrainian has more similarities (shared words, and syntactic constructs) with Polish and Belarussian than with Russian.
- wwtrv 5y agoWell originally Moscow was a ‘colony’ of Kievan Rus. Of course much has happened in the subsequent 800 years but historically there was no clear line between being an Ukrainian and a Russian. I’m not trying to imply that Ukrainians are Russians and their desire to stay independent is perfectly legitimate but the relationship between Russia and Ukraine is much more analogous to Germany and Austria than the one between Ireland and Britain (which didn’t share the same language, culture and origin).