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What Russia Wants In Ukraine
American Conservative ^ | 2/10/2022 | Will Collins

Posted on 02/10/2022 1:14:56 PM PST by whyilovetexas111

Afirst-time visitor to Lviv in Western Ukraine, knowing nothing of national borders or the city’s history, might be forgiven for thinking he was still in Poland. From the elaborately coiffed opera house to the open-air cafes to the cobblestoned market square, the city’s charming downtown is a pastiche of Mitteleuropa influences. At least superficially, Lviv has far more in common with Krakow or Budapest than Moscow or even Kyiv.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: cccp; communism; nationalsecurity; putinsbuttboys; russia; sovietunion; ukraine; ussr
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“Russians regard the ancestor of the Russian state to be the Kievan Rus”

When in fact it is Mongolia.

41 posted on 02/11/2022 1:09:10 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
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