The opposite: Donbass resists West-backed regime change much like Syria resists West-backed "rebels." @GNich1985
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1. As an artificial state, new Ukraine had opportunity to consolidate but pursued forced unitary politics of an ethnic minority. @GNich1985
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Among countless examples, Solzhenitsyn on forced de-Russification in the artificial state of Ukraine: http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/89825.htm … @GNich1985
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Peoples of Russia infographic (Rubakin, Russia in Numbers, 1912; 1897 census data). No distinct Ukrainians? @GNich1985pic.twitter.com/KJpD06kAYg
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Noteworthy 1926 census for Crimea, specifically, lists every imaginable ethnicity except Ukrainian. http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/ussr_26.php?reg=12 … @GNich1985pic.twitter.com/5lZTgOCGe5
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In the late Russian Empire, Velikorosy (great Russians) populated Donbass & Malorosy (little Russians)—central Ukraine, eg Kiev. @GNich1985
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And Galician minority—which forces the most vocal petty Ukrainian nationalism today onto the majority—were under Austro-Hungary. @GNich1985
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1920s Soviet korenizatsiya policy boosted "ethnic minority nationalism" in order to create local Communist cadres in the regions. @GNich1985pic.twitter.com/JPsieHNXqV
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Also, current militant Ukrainian identity is negative: Ukraine = project anti-Russia. Negative identities ALWAYS fail. @GNich1985
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