[SmokingJoe]

Native language is no indicator of anyone's desire to be united with the “mother country.”

For most part, it is in Europe. Think of the war in Yugoslavia.

Heck, I speak English and I most assuredly don't want to be re-united with England

Not the same thing. Different in Europe/Asia/Africa where these nationalities and customs go back hundreds of years with ancestos going back up to even longer.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Let’s see. They want Russia and the conscript are deserting. Who gets the final say?

[Cronos]

Russia had forced Russification since the 1890s.

It wasn’t unusual, the French reduced Occitan, Gascon, Breton etc., the English nearly eliminated welsh, cornish as well as Yorks etc

Language is not the only indicator of national sentiment