Not sharing to start an argument about stalin but this is a good primary source on russification from the people who saw it happen

Explains why the east is more nominally Russian

It's useful to think of Ukrainian nationalism risorgimento style

While the west of Ukraine, with its longer running uninterrupted contributions to Ukrainian art, culture and folklore is typically seen as the heart of Ukrainian identity, Eastern and southern Ukraine sees the most outright militant expression of Ukrainian patriotism.

West Ukraine is Tuscany, East Ukraine is the Piedmont in this scenario

When did they say this? Link? Genuinely curious

Ukrainian history can be defined as oscillating between relative unity, playing russia and west off each other (cossack era) and partition between the two

Wow that’s so crazy that Ukrainians would readily adopt Nazi propaganda like that who would have guessed

On a positive note I love how the media been using a lot of pics of Ukrainians smoking cigs

Hoping this means the libs start rolling back smoking regulations so I can light up in the restaurant like the good ol days

It quite literally happened. What's nazi about this video bro? Just talking about what was done

news.yahoo.com/ukraine-crisis-russian-journalists-told-over-2-weeks-131008306.html

probably that the stalinist thaw is 12 years on the heel of the nazi thaw

Some Ukrainians sided with nazis so we stamped out the language and forcibly russified them

Real balance

no i mean 3/4 of the country was occupied by nazis for a long time, nothing to do with ukrainians siding with either side just a lot of ideology being forced onto peasants by germans russians austrians and the soviets for like 70 years

why would they shell a plant that they control and have troops in lol

Like yall seriously can’t believe this s*** can you

And Ukraine has already tried to fabricate a nuclear disaster once during this war so I’m not sure why yall are so quick to believe them

There's none of it in the videos

Just facts

no ideology just facts should be the tagline of this thread

Free donetsk and Luhansk, poor man

But remember, the war is about liberating the oppressed Russian speakers in the east

A true heroine

Sorry but there's no reason for the Russians not to demilitarised the nuclear plant

What do Ukrainians gain from that other than removing a tool of blackmail and making whole world safer?

ayo eastern Sweden and Norway

Ukrainians showing their true colors in these replies

Tbh progress has been reversed in Eastern Europe, my aunt who studied in Czechoslovakia in the 80s and still has friends in Prague (she went there now), we talked a lot about her experience back then, wouldn't have happened back then.

Being prime minister of finland cant keep you busy for more than like 5 hours every day