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To: Zhang Fei

Ethnic Ukrainians in the East speak Russian and are not overly fond of Kiev. The region has an overall ethnic Ukrainian majority but every one speaks and understands Russian. Its a world away from Ukrainian-speaking Lvov, the center of the Maidan.


18 posted on 04/16/2014 10:23:18 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
Ethnic Ukrainians in the East speak Russian and are not overly fond of Kiev. The region has an overall ethnic Ukrainian majority but every one speaks and understands Russian. Its a world away from Ukrainian-speaking Lvov, the center of the Maidan.

Slovenes, Croats and Bosnians all speak Serbian. But they broke away from a Serb-dominated Yugoslavia, anyway. Plenty of ethnic Czechs spoke German, but they identified with Czechoslovakia rather than Austria.

19 posted on 04/16/2014 10:51:04 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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