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To: Chad C. Mulligan
A legacy bequeathed to Ukraine by generations of slavery to Russian imperialism.

LOL! So the Cossacks of Ukraine were genteel, civilized , and led the world in engineering and finance before Russia drove Ottomans out of Ukraine?
30 posted on 07/03/2024 4:48:21 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski; All
LOL! So the Cossacks of Ukraine were genteel, civilized , and led the world in engineering and finance before Russia drove Ottomans out of Ukraine?

LOL yourself! The vast majority of the people living in what we now call Ukraine for the last 500 years were not Cossacks. And your namesake would be ashamed to learn that you don't know that it was he and not Moscow who recovered a chunk of "Ottoman Ukraine" in 1676.

But let's start a little closer to home shall we? Like maybe the final victory of the Bolsheviks in 1921? The Soviet they created devolved into a classical Russian-style kleptocracy, albeit with a Marxist front, through WW2 and the Cold War, as we all know too well. This is what Ukraine inherited when it finally gained its' freedom in 1991. And is still dealing with 33 years later, while with the other hand fighting a hot war with Moscow since 2014.

Given the long and bitter history of Russian oppression of Poland since the late 1700s, it's pretty amazing that you should be standing up for Putin so vehemently.

35 posted on 07/03/2024 6:21:06 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (Your insults are my rocket fuel. )
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