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Originally Posted by FlameOn
Came across an article today on the Ukrainian view of Russians, and from those interviewed, it seems like more and more they are no longer just blame Putin himself for the war, but the Russian people themselves. The argument goes that Putin is a symptom of the Russian anger and you cannot decouple Putin and the Russian people from the Ukrainian invasion given Putin's recent polling. Russians made a deal with the devil having been so traumatized by the disaster of the post-Soviet economic collapse that they accepted a despot and willingly enabled more than two decades of aggression against Chechnya, Georgia, and Ukraine. They do have a point but I wonder if it goes further back than that. Russians have had leaders that were horrible for more than a thousand years after all.
Another interesting tidbit from that article is the Ukrainian identity and relationship with Russia has been completely destroyed since the Russian invasion, not that this is horribly surprising.
https://time.com/6160347/ukrainians-...sians-for-war/ |
I was on another forum and read that apparently there is a movement among some Ukrainians to abandon the Orthodox religion and the Cyrillic alphabet to further sever cultural ties to Russia. I doubt that it is a majority at this point, but it will be interesting to see if it gains any steam.