[Kozak]

The westerners were slaves of Poles and then Germans, the eastern Ukrainians belonged to Russia and were part of Russian nation. We fought together and we lived together and we've always been one people united by our language and Orthodox Church. And it's ridiculous to name Ukraine a 'colony'.

Himno.
Ukrainians were made serfs ( my own great grandfather was not emancipated till 1863), lorded over by their Russian masters. If ukrainians fought it was because they were drafted into the Russian Imperial forces as cannon fodder. Ukrainian language and culture was supressed, . Russia did everything it could to destroy Ukrainian national identity. And every chance they had, as in 1918, again in 1940, and finally in 1990 Ukrainians have tried to throw off the smothering embrace of our "brothers".

[Lukasz]

Comrade Yuri was banned, unfortunately. Always when the new blood from Russia appears on FR and claim that Soviet Union was basically Russia, they are quickly banned. Then American Russophiles show up and claim that the Russians could never think so. So, how many of such Russians were banned here? I stopped counting…