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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to the obituary in foreignpolicy.com, his grandparents were Ukranian. Maybe they were Russian-Ukranian; the article doesn't seem to indicate one way or the other.[/quote]

It was the same thing pretty much, back in the day. Western Ukraine was different but they were pretty marginal. Mainstream Ukraine didn’t try so hard to show they weren’t Russian. I am not saying it was wrong or right, I am just saying it didn’t really matter [/quote]

I’m not sure either but agree that there was a lot of intermixing back in the day.  One of the Russian comedians I watched before the invasion had a Ukrainian grandmother and went to HS in Ukraine even after the split.  If you watch the zelensky show, it’s almost exclusively in Russian and there’s a lot cult jokes about Ukrainians not speaking Ukrainian well, and also about Russian last names versus Ukrainian.  Of course that doesn’t justify the invasion.  It doesn’t matter how many Spanish speakers there are in Arizona—we’d be pretty pissed if Mexico invaded![/quote]

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