Comments by "George Carty" (@GCarty80) on "What Will Happen to the People of Crimea: Denys Davydov | Jake Broe Show Clip" video.

@paulmakinson1965 Even before the Mongol invasions the principality of Vladimir Suzdal (Muscovy's predecessor) was already noticeably more autocratic than either Kyivan Rus or Novgorod, so perhaps Muscovite despotism isn't the fault of the Mongols after all?
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@georgeprout42 I think the issue is more to do with the pre-2014 ethnic Russian population, not post-2014 colonists. And the Russian soldiers are stealing washing machines more because they want them to wash their own clothes (due to their army's inadequate field hygiene provisions), not because they don't have washing machines back in Russia.
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@tcl78 At least not while there's an expansionist government in the Kremlin.
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@graeme9114 I think @jaybee9269 was thinking of the fact that even the pre-2014 Crimean population was majority ethnic Russian. Incidentally, given that Crimea and what the Russians call "Novorossiya" were all conquered by imperial Russia from the Tatars at about the same time: how did different places there end up with such different demographics? Kherson is overwhelmingly ethnic Ukrainian, Donbas is majority ethnic Ukrainian but with a large ethnic Russian minority, and Crimea is majority ethnic Russian.
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@graeme9114 Surely the real issue is self determination, but a lot of people just assume that ethnic Russians would want to be part of Russia.
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