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It isn't a hysterical idea, it is a retarded idea. For starters her example of Poland circa 1938 completely ignores that the Poland in question was actually a
by monochr 12y ago
It isn't a hysterical idea, it is a retarded idea.
For starters her example of Poland circa 1938 completely ignores that the Poland in question was actually a re-incarnation of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth and not Poland-the-country-of-Poles we have today (one which took close to a third it's territory though ethnically cleansing Prussia and Silesia of Germans, courtesy of the Soviet union at the end of WWII). One in which Poles were the minority population in the majority of the territory[1] and those territories would eventually become the countries of Ukraine and Belarus.
For comparison here is the same map of Ukraine today for Russian speakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ukraine_census_2001_Russian.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ukraine_census_2001_Russi...
Who is shocked that regions with more than half the population being Russian want to get back into Russia, especially considering the first move of the new Ukrainian parliament was to ban the use of Russian in government (something the president himself vetoed so it wouldn't look like his cabinet was filled with right wing nationalists)?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Polish_language_frequency_in_Poland_in_1931_1.PNG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Polish_language_frequency...
- viraptor 12y ago> completely ignores that the Poland in question was actually a re-incarnation of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth Does that matter? That attack didn't have much to do with which population lived in Poland. It was supposed to be a quick move through Poland, rather than attack on it. Even then, the area which was actually affected in the first days was actually completely on the current territory of Poland. And that's the population that could potentially take part in the defense.
- xi 12y agoA Russian native speaker does not equal a Russian. About 2/3 of the population of Donetsk region identify themselves as ethnic Ukrainians. More than half of those name Russian as their native language.