Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Hanna Hopko - Russia has Weaponized Violence Against Civilians, Especially Women, as a War Strategy." video.

  1. On Belarusians having their culture totally wiped out by Russia, I met a young guy from Belarus in the early 90's who did not even know there WAS a Belarusian language!!!! Because when I asked him, "do you speak Belarusian", he LMAO'd at me and replied "There's no such thing, WE SPEAK RUSSIAN"!!! 😵This was very common in the post-Soviet years....crazy!
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  2. Right on Jonathon, what Hanna states at the start of the show re: the real problem was not Communism, it was just an iteration or evolution of the real problem - Russian Imperialism. In 1991 everyone thought, "great, we got rid of Communism problem solved" - WRONG & very naive. From the article - Deceit, Dread, and Disbelief: The Story of How Ukraine Lost Its Nuclear Arsenal - First President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk talking to last Soviet Foreign Minister and first President of Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze.....take note of the prophetic last sentence, "They are still sick with imperial infection".... “I would understand Russia’s nastiness,” Kravchuk lamented, “But Americans are even worse—they do not listen to our arguments.” Shevardnadze remarked to his fellow post-Soviet leader: The Americans do not know about our terrible, rough relations with the Russian empire and the USSR. Without that knowledge, building predictable and trustworthy relations with ‘democratic Yeltsin and Russia’ would be very difficult, whom the Americans currently call ‘Russian democrats’...I know many of them, talked to them a lot. They are still sick with imperial infection."
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