Comments by "Stephen Hill" (@stephenhill545) on "Is Donbas historically Russian or Ukrainian? | Serhii Plokhy and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. Except ukranisn is closer to polish and slovak. But don't let facts trouble your little head.
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  2. Is this the 21. Century or the 18? Get a life.
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  3. Donbas was majority ukranian until this war. It always had been. So was bilgorod and kursk. Until stalins deportations.
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  4. Istanbul was established by Greeks, London by the Romans, Toronto by the British, New York by the Dutch. What's your point?
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  5. We don't censor key historical documents and suppress academia. So.listen. you might actually learn something.
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  6. All countries are artificial constructs. They exist in the imagination. Russians imagine a historical constancy which never existed, they imagine an ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic uniqueness which does not exist. They do not know what they are, of where their country begins and ends, so they base their identity on historical myths, antifascist, victims of external hostile forces etc.
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  7. Nationality is imagined. In every nation. Ukranians have the same right to imagine their common identity as anyone else.
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  8. Proples ideologies are genetically passed on. Interesting. Do they teach you that at school?
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  9. Some regimes need them to legitimise their dictatorial nature.
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  10. It was pronounced Rooss, and rissia was otiginally called Rassiym, then Rassia. It looks more similar in english.
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  11. In the hands of those who distort and emotionally weaponize, it can be literally genocidal.
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