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> from Ethnic Conflict and Minority Refugee Flight from Post-Soviet Ukraine btw this doesn't just apply to Ukraine but almost any post Soviet state Russia is
by type0 5y ago
> from Ethnic Conflict and Minority Refugee Flight from Post-Soviet Ukraine
btw this doesn't just apply to Ukraine but almost any post Soviet state
Russia is increasingly less and less multi-ethnic by the day, russification is not slowing down, it has only increased.
> also looks for ethnic exclusivism
There is plenty of that and other types of imperial chauvinism. Actually at this moment we are seeing Great Russian chauvinism 2.0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Russian_chauvinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Russian_chauvinism
>> Modern Russians were referred to as "Great Russians", while Ukrainians were named "Lesser Russians"
we are seeing the result of this, Ukrainians are seen as lesser human beings or simply as pest worth of eradication. I would argue that most Russian soldiers right now think that Ukrainians should be subjugated and conquered, no-one seriously believes that Ukrainian army and civilians (who are bombarded more than the military) are Nazis, the whole talk of denazification is aimed at elderly who still remember WW2.
- wrp 5y ago> no-one seriously believes that Ukrainian army and civilians...are Nazis This idea gets repeated a lot, that Putin and other Russians are just cynically waving the "fascist" red flag without really believing it. I'm not so sure. Richard Sakwa's Frontline Ukraine[1] examines how post-USSR developments in the Ukraine looked from the Russian perspective. While I think most Westerners would find much to take issue with in the Russian position, their calling Ukranian society "fascistic" is not a far stretch based on their perceptions. From the opposing political view, Ukrainian historian Taras Kuzio[2] makes no attempt to hide that he passionately hates Russia. His differing take on the same events gives an interesting counterpoint to Sakwa's book. In reading Kuzio's books, I personally felt that his heavy partisanship was doing his case more harm than good. By the way, if you want a well-informed, non-partisan analysis of recent Ukrainian history, I think you can't do any better than Paul D'Anieri's Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War[3] [1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/24717077-frontline-ukraine https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/24717077-frontline-uk... [2] https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/908534.Taras_Kuzio https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/908534.Taras_Kuzio [3] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50041763-ukraine-and-russia https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50041763-ukraine-and-...