federoccco

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by federoccco 4y ago
"Russian speaking Ukrainians are staying silent" Where do you get this bullshit? Russian-speaking Ukrainians are fighting Russians, half of UA armed forces are Russian-speaking. >> pro-Russian faction has been marginalized a
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by federoccco 4y ago
Point by point. 1. The same politicians who were in party of regions (Yanukovich party) quickly reorganized into new political parties. So there were “pro-Russian” political parties in Ukrainian politics, who participated in parliament elec
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by federoccco 4y ago
The chane in this “feeling of identity “ in Ukraine is indeed very strong in the last 8 years. 4% percent shift is between 1991 and 2001, change between 2012 and 2017 is much more drastic, especially in Southern and Eastern Ukraine. Separa
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by federoccco 4y ago
Let me tell you one thing — Yanukovich would go down, whether US interfered or not, there were enough of internal Ukrainian elites who wanted him to go. The whole US pushed Ukraine talk is delusional. Ukraine is not a pawn, it has it’s own
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by federoccco 4y ago
Democratically elected guy killed a hundred of protesters with snipers, and fled the country for the fear of retribution by his own security forces. Yet you call it a coup. I don’t see how changes to Constitution which limit the power of Pr
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by federoccco 4y ago
You need to understand that there at least tens of thousands of Ukrainians here, on HN, who have a firsthand experience on how “Russian army advances “. Major cities like Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol are shelled with dumb, indiscriminate we
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by federoccco 4y ago
How many tanks, fighter jets, SAMs, navy ships, cruise/ballistic missiles has NATO provided to Ukraine? The way Ukraine fights is not in adherence to some NATO standards
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by federoccco 4y ago
You know, Russian invasion does not help ethnic Russians in Ukraine. Just a food for thought, consider thinking about this.
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by federoccco 4y ago
Under Zelenskiy situation in Donbas was de-escalating. Implementation of Minsk agreement the way Russia wanted it to happen was not on his agenda nor it was supported by majority of Ukrainian electorate. Ukraine is a democracy, whether you
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by federoccco 4y ago
As a person who was there in Ukraine in 2004, and in 2013-14, as a somewhat neutral observer of Orange Revolution and Euromaidan, the first paragraph already throws you an Oliver Stone -level propaganda jab. Everyone in Ukraine was well awa
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by federoccco 4y ago
a bit of nitpicking — but the Soviet Union never really had predominantly Russian leadership, which would be disproportionate to the Russian part of the Soviet population. Lenin was from a Russian noble but ethnically diverse family. Stalin
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by federoccco 4y ago
2 of my Ukrainian great-grandfathers died in WW2, many other relatives that I do not know about. Were they Russians? Soviets did plenty of bad things, I don't get that jab. Many Russians now in Russia hate the Soviet moniker and look a
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by federoccco 4y ago
Well I’m in Kyiv and that’s definitely not true :) But keep believing in that, it will make our job easier.
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by federoccco 4y ago
But it wasn’t the Russians in WW2, there were everyone Soviet, from Ukrainians to Georgians, and Russians of course, but to give the Russians the mantle of only WW2 winners from Soviet side is wrong I think.
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by federoccco 4y ago
Maybe you can try living somewhere else? You probably can easily work remotely (and part-time), and there are plenty of places where all the typical US things would stop mattering.
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by federoccco 4y ago
“That Putin was lied to by his advosors…” I’m not sure how that’s not accurate, with Beseda and Surkov arrest — two guys who were mainly responsible for coordinating Russian activities in Ukraine in 2014-2021. There were reports of some lim
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by federoccco 4y ago
Second point is not true, even though Ukraine doesn’t have the same capacity for everything, it still produces some tanks and ATGMs. Also civilian planes with Antonov Plant (they weren’t too productive last couple of years though) I think “
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by federoccco 4y ago
But $300 could be more than those guys make in month in peace time, literally. In most of Russia’s regions median (!) salary is closer to 350 US dollars, and that’s before war. Minimum wage is around 100 dollars (not sure if there are many
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by federoccco 4y ago
I know the Ukrainian language and I know the context, I've heard the stories (about marauders). "soldiers stole their toilet seats to take home because they could not imagine the magic of flush toilets." — this is just an iss
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by federoccco 4y ago
It is not about "flush toilet", is about having a nice, expensive ceramic toilet, which could upgrade a typical "hole in the floor" style lavatory, common to many villages.