> Ukraine has existed as a country for a very long time. Except it really hasn't. During the Kievan Rus era, there was no distinction between Russia and Ukra

> Ukraine has existed as a country for a very long time. Except it really hasn't. During the Kievan Rus era, there was no distinction between Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine was the frontier region (hence the etymology of the word from old Slavic), and it's been contested by Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Austro-Hungary, Tatars, etc... After centuries changing hands, Ukraine was eventually held by the Russian empire (who had by then moved its capital from Kyiv to Moscow), and Ukraine only became a country briefly from 1917 to 1920. Then again in 1991. To say its been a country 'for a very long time' is patently false, and revisionist history. > USSR was Russia and Russia was USSR. This is again false. When they murdered the royal family, suppressed the Church, and murdered millions of Russians, they ceased to represent the Russian people. They were a cabal of communists who oppressed Russians and many other peoples.