Surely no one views it as a bad thing that Canada has a pro-US government, so why is it bad that Ukraine has a pro-Russian government? They are two related peoples with a common history
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Whats wrong?/ Well to begin with Ukraine has been terrorized and abused throughout its history by oppressive Russian imperialist govt, whether they be tsarist or Soviet.
The Holodomor was not done to Ukraine as a friendly gesture of brotherhood. Neither were the mass graves and Gulag sentences
The fact that there are a lot of Russians in Ukraine is a direct result of these policies. The eastern part of Ukraine suffered the most from the Holodomor and Stalin's terror campaign and death camps. Those areas of Ukraine were then populated with Russians from the east.
Even in western Ukraine, towns and villages are almost 40% Russian because the Moscow based Govt policies killed or deported millions from those areas during and after the war, and brought in Russians that were loyal and put them next to the western borders.
Yes, Russians and Ukrainians are Slavs, and they should be friends. But unfortunately the rulers in Moscow view the relationship as a one way street.
I don’t think that’s true at all. Most Ukrainians obviously don’t either since they voted for the pro-Russian candidate. Ukrainians were not deported or oppressed by the soviet leadership (which had many ukrainians in it) to any greater degree than any other group in the USSR including ethnic russians themselves.