Comments by "andy99ish" (@andy99ish) on "Anna from Ukraine"
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@robm.4512 Thank you for your attempt at educating me about a region, in which my immediate ancestors have been living for generations and I have lived in for some decades.
I am afraid that the past is only the past if it is handled properly. And while indeed no nationalism was or is free of error not every nationalism has resulted in the planned and systematic genocide on a scale of 100,000 people, as it has happened in Volhynia in 1943/44. No such a thing has occurred in Lithuanian nationalism, nor in Latvian, Estonian, Belorussian, Polish nationalism. Worse still, the well organized forces behind that massacres are today officially cherished by the Ukraine. That this you imagine to be an act of necessity, even of self-defense, is the standard pattern of thinking of all radical nationalists.
Regarding "oppression" it was precisely Austrian Galizien, ruled by Poles by grace of the autonomy they have patiently gained, in which Михайло Грушевський could promote the concept of a Ukrainian nation. It was Polish run Lwów/Lviv/Lemberg, in which the first Діло magazine was published and where Олександр Барвінський could capture what was to become the unified Ukrainian language. For sure there were tensions too, yet oppression is a myth.
Your aggressive conclusion veiled in feigned respectful phrases only reinforces the picture that Ukrainian nationalism and lack of balance is as dangerous as Russian imperialism. Fortunately I do know some Ukrainians who understand that to stop hurting oneself and others every nascent nation has to be overcome its demons - and not ignore them.
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