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So how come there's so many videos of these untrue things? How come the Russians themselves are saying they're doing it on their own state TV and celebrate it?

So how come there's so many videos of these untrue things? How come the Russians themselves are saying they're doing it on their own state TV and celebrate it? I don't care about Putin's claims. There's a lot of Russian-speaking Ukrainian refugees where I live (there's hundreds thousands of them), I still haven't found one who felt like they were in any way targeted by the Ukrainian government or that their culture was being replaced. Now they hate Russia and every single one I asked has vowed to learn Ukrainian and erase any parts of Russian culture from their lives.

DiogenesKynikos 4y ago
> Now they hate Russia and every single one I asked has vowed to learn Ukrainian and erase any parts of Russian culture from their lives. I know a few Ukrainian refugees. They speak Russian as their native language, and I've often seen them hanging out and chatting with Russians. I've talked to one of them quite a bit about his political beliefs. He obviously doesn't support the Russian invasion of his country, but he's also very unhappy with the Ukrainian government (particularly since what happened in 2014), and he doesn't like Ukrainian nationalists (partly because of the way they try to restrict minority languages in the country, including Russian and Hungarian).