Comments by "Галина Брагина" (@user-iz9ge9xy1u) on "Is Donbas historically Russian or Ukrainian? | Serhii Plokhy and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. about Donbass: there are a lot of soviet documents in which people were ordered to learn Ukrainian language or they could lost their job.. these documents are from 1920 - 1930.... It was the communist goverment idea to improve Ukrainian populations by Russian proletariat, because Russian proletariat was considered as a main force of world communist revolution. These documents were publiced in newspaper of the time and came from families as the official letters which families memeber got from their jobs. the same idea was the reason to add Donbass to Ukraina inspite of people protests - these protests was also documented.
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  2.  @nikolaikuchumov8916  With her life, with her feat, the Empress proved that the concept of "Russian" is deeper and broader than just ethnicity. This is, first of all, a civilizational, spiritual affiliation, and the Empress somehow expressed this idea in words: "I am German by birth and Russian by heart." German was not united this time. By the way all current direct heirs to the British crown are direct descendants of the Russian Tsar Nicholas I on his father's side
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  3.  @TimMountjoy-zy2fd  no, it was later because there was aperiod of the civil war. First there was Donbass People Republic. Lenin & Trosky wanted to crate a union of 'national ' republic only because it should be a model of a future world, when (like they suppoused) the world revolution comes true. And other countries will be parts of the union as national republics with their own languages. It was an idea.
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