Posted on 03/01/2014 3:20:51 PM PST by kristinn
I personally therefore could care less if Russia takes them over or not. What goes around, comes around.
When I was taught about the Holocaust in grade and high school many times we learned about the seven million Jews killed. But never a word was spoken about the 3 million Polish Christians killed. I only learned about that in college. Why is that?
Sorry, might be the wrong question to ask since you probably don’t care about those 3 million Polish Christians either.
I was not happy that ANY people were unjustly murdered in the Holocaust. It is heartbreaking to me to read of the slaughter. But to read of the extermination of my own people would naturally upset me more, as there were surely relatives of mine included in that number.
Indeed!
And the media will be beside themselves with joy ;-)
And then there was Stalin's Ukrainian Holocaust.
I don't need to be Jewish, Polish or Ukrainian to understand how terrible they all were.
You’re right.
Los Angeles should be part of Mexico.
It WAS part of Mexico, founded in 1781 and called “El Pueblo de la Reyna de los Angeles”.
In May, 1846, when the Mexican American War broke out, Mexico lost the city.
Now they are back. Do you blame them?
What is an “ehnic Ukrainian”? There is no such thing.
For centuries, since the 17th, they were known as “Little Russians” (Malorosskie). In the West they were called Ruthenians (Rusyns) until the 20th century. “Ukrainian” comes from “man living on the border” (kray in Russian).
Ukraine didn’t exist as an independent state until 1991.
Same thing with the “ukrainian” language, which is just a russian dialect, issued from Kievan Rus (from old East Slavic). In the West, it is mixed with Polish and Lithuanian.
So, WHAT is an “ethnic Ukrainian”?
You know what?
There is a democratic way to settle the question: ask the people what they want.
Ukraine should organize a referendum in all the 27 oblasts (regions) of the country with two simple answers to one question:
Do you want to remain attached:
1 - to Ukraine
or
2- to Russia
The majority of the region population decide.
Those who don’t agree can always move to another oblast.
Too bad he doesn't feel the same way about the People of the United States of America...
Wise post.
So, WHAT is an “ethnic Ukrainian”?
So why don't you apply the same wise principle when it comes to the question ethnicity. It's called ethnicity self identification.
According to a 2001 Ukraine census 78.1 identify their ethnicity as "Ukrainian" while 17.3 percent identify their ethnicity as Russian.
Ethnic Self-Identification in Ukraine.
As I pointed out to you in my first post.
I'll post the map again.
LA was not established by mexico, fact the spanish established san diego and LA.
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