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Originally Posted by Pointman
They first wanted to leave and then got abused, as a retaliation of wanting to leave. They wanted to leave because they thought EU would give them a better life, not because Russia was particularly abusive to begin with.
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I think Ukrainian's experience under Stalin belies that, you cannot ignore the long shadow of the Holodomor, neither should any slavic nation ever trust Russia as it seems drawn to back to brutal nationalistic empire building dictatorships