@sshipway "long" "friendly"... those are two words with quite the caveats.
Russia, and the Soviet Union, and then Russia again, have been screwing Ukraine for a long time.
The main reason there are russian minorities in the region at all is due to the Soviets forcibly deporting Ukrainians and injecting Russians to get better control of the area. Fuck! Until Stalin, there were more ethnic GREEKS in Ukraine than Russians.
After Butja, I sincerly doubt many Russian soldiers will be getting home from this war. They will be lucky if they wont be seeing retaliatory massacres in Russia for decades to come.
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@sshipway "long" "friendly"... those are two words with quite the caveats.
Russia, and the Soviet Union, and then Russia again, have been screwing Ukraine for a long time.
The main reason there are russian minorities in the region at all is due to the Soviets forcibly deporting Ukrainians and injecting Russians to get better control of the area. Fuck! Until Stalin, there were more ethnic GREEKS in Ukraine than Russians.
After Butja, I sincerly doubt many Russian soldiers will be getting home from this war. They will be lucky if they wont be seeing retaliatory massacres in Russia for decades to come.