Comments by "afcgeo" (@afcgeo882) on "Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)" channel.

  1.  @grahortarg9933 I appreciate your story, but being Latvian for generations and not knowing it has no excuse. You can speak Russian at home, but you HAVE TO know Latvian.
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  2.  @snowsnow4231 Now you’re spewing nothing, but propaganda. Latvians built their own cities and roads.
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  3.  @snowsnow4231 Soviet power plants were mostly built by Ukrainians, Armenians, Georgians, Balts and Belarusians.
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  4.  @Superman-ef4nn Well… partly true. They do seem to praise Russia a lot, and that’s an issue. They also refuse to learn Latvian, which is an issue too.
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  5. They don’t want to live in Russia. They’ve lived in Latvia for many generations. They just want to be treated equally. Multi-ethnic countries have got to learn to respect ethnic minorities. It isn’t such an issue in Western Europe.
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  6.  @WangMingGe What life and death? Where did you get all that bullshit from? You’re not even old enough to have seen the Soviet Union! The USSR was a single country with a single economy, but the resources were spread out far apart. Ukraine had massive amounts of coal, but not enough miners; massive amounts of fertile land, but not enough farmers. So farmers and miners went to Ukraine from all over the USSR and stayed. The same was true of the opposite. Many Ukrainians went to other regions of the USSR for work and stayed. No one had any power over anyone else. We were all in the same pile of shit. The government treated everyone badly.
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  7.  @snowsnow4231 The US has NOTHING to do with this. Don’t start. This goes back to 1940.
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  8.  @purpplekushh The Soviet government built that, not “Russians.”
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  9.  @piratizaslobodu The Baltics (and some other Eastern European states) are not evolved enough to understand EU ethics and laws.
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  10. “Minorities are persecuted.” I think I heard that in 1938.
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  11.  @mimisor66 You need to stop at “I don’t know much about the issue”.
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  12.  @grahortarg9933  Your English is more than reasonable. I’m assuming you can speak at least basic Latvian?
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  13.  @mimisor66  They ABSOLUTELY moved of their own free will. My grandmother and grandfather, for example. They were both from Ukraine. Grandfather from Mariupol (then Zhdanov). My grandmother from Nizhyn. They met in Stalingrad after the war and decided to stay there. There was lots of jobs there, rebuilding the city. Opportunities. My grandfather ended up remaining in the army as an officer. My grandmother worked for the local candy/chocolates factory as a manicurist. There were no opportunities in Ukraine aside from farming at the time. I know people of all ethnicities who moved to Leningrad, Moscow, Tallinn, Gorky, Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk, Volgograd, etc., all because of education or work or meeting someone. It wasn’t as wild and weird of a society as most people think. In fact, most people went to university outside of their home region. A lot of them then moved wherever they wanted for work, climate or just because they had relatives or friends there. Only Moscow was really off limits to move to (and a few closed cities). Even Leningrad was game, albeit difficult to find an apartment in. I know the history FAR better than you do. What you’re talking about is just stuff you heard on TV. The reality was far more nuanced. Also, you’re mixing up your eras. “Kulaks” were in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Communism fought a long war to get rid of them (and did) by 1925.
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  14. Or… consider absorbing ethnic minorities the way other European nations have done and live in peace. Look at Belgium for example!
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  15.  @edmis90 Eastern Ukraine was always a blend of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians. It’s not like it is in Western Europe. Those borders were always soft borders and ethnicity, religion and language changes very gradually from one to the other. Keep in mind that Eastern Ukraine has been Orthodox for centuries, and they taught the old Church Russian.
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  16.  @aris1188 Are you short on brain cells?
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  17.  @anthony64632 I see you don’t like freedom of speech.
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  18.  @mimisor66  You “might”, but I was a Soviet citizen and you’re waaaaay off. People in the USSR gave each other a hard time because they were brainwashed by the party. I was called a traitor by my life-long friends when I left for the US in 1989. It isn’t an ethnic thing. It’s a communist thing. And yes. they are insulated and they are victims of it. That’s not what the comment was, originally though.
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  19.  @Zeltace-t8o  They are… and Eastern. They’re Northeastern, LITERALLY.
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  20.  @Zeltace-t8o  You need to check your sociopathy. NONE of them were alive in 1940. Most of them were born in the Baltics and for many, their parents were as well.
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  21. It’s been hard for many, many decades.
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