Comments by "Andrei Lukyanov" (@andreilukyanov4286) on "Lex Clips" channel.

@elizaleroux9173 it's a tricky question. Nationality =/= ethnicity. You can have one nationality and an another ethnicity, depends of what you are talking about. Plohiy was born not in Russia, but in USSR, and his nationality is Ukrainian. His ethnicity is also Ukrainian.
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@Twenneful "Oh whatever you wrote it's all Russian propaganda" is such a lazy-ass no-answer that if the Ru propaganda is so effective, it's also partially because of lazy answers from the other side.
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@christophercousins184 Very good. But let's try to think further than our nose: what does it change? OK you can elect Poroshenko today, Zelensky tomorrow, Kuchma back the day after tomorrow ok: 1) Zelensky was elected under the slogan: "I'll stop the war in Donbass." He had signed Steinmeyer agreement. Did it stop the war? No, because there are forces: the US, the internal oligarchs who possess most of Ukrainian GDP, nationalistic armed groups which are stronger than Zelensky. OK you have a tramway and today you can elect Ahmed as a driver, tomorrow Muhammed, and the day after tomorrow you can elect Jennifer, but the tramway will go where someone else has planned. I have a cousin who lives in Ukraine. Imagine we are in 2017 and he starts saying: "I love Russia, I think that Ru is right and we are wrong, we should be friends witht them." He will immediately be detained, fired from his job and will get plenty of problems. So what is the difference with USSR where you had the same thing? 2) I love the US. It is my second culture and I can't live without it. I have Americans in my immediate family. I learn banjo. In US they have two parties and they elect different presidents. It litterally changes nothing: US is an oligarchy and its government is functionning OF THE 1%, BY THE 1%, FOR THE 1%. No matter who you will elect 99% of the US government decisions will be first and foremost for them. 3) Absolute most of my life I lived in democratic countries and live by today. I saw 3 presidents change in my country. What did it change in the policies? Nothing at all. In China they have weird elections. Their Communist party in 40 years had put hundreds of millions of people from poverty. That is a radical change. I still think that a functionning democracy is the least worst form of governance, but it doesn't mean I cannot criticize it and try to think further than my nose.
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@christophercousins184 Bro I have cousins and some distant family still in Ukr, they are SCARED to write me stuff in Viber and watsup and delete their msgs immediately after writting. I ask you WHAT KIND OF FREEDOM IS THIS?
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Amen
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@MrYossarianuk LMAO there are TONS of videos on YT where journalists talk to civilians from the East of Ukraine, how Azov behaved there.
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Another LIE. Ukrainian cities at the East and South weren't speaking Russians because Russians settled there. They were ALWAYS non-Ukrainian speaking: Yiddish speakers dominated. From the time of Russian Empire, when the Russian language became lingua franca, yes they slowly turned to the Ru language, so that Jews, Armenians, Russians and Ukrainians could speak to each other. Even Hrushevsky noticed that, and considered only the Ukrainian countryside to be truly the Ukrainian nation. Read Andreas Kappeler books, he talks a lot about the language situation. The Ukrainian nationalists use the lack of knowledge of the scientific Ukrainian history to push their BS on people: both Ukrainians and foreigners.
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Якщо б він це спитав, Зелібоба б підірвався й вирубив чатик. Треба ж бути трохи прагматиком, коли робиш інтерв'ю.
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Do you REALLY don't understand that a language is JUST a language, it is a mean of communication for human beings and not a private property of Russia? That hundreds of millions of innocent people in many countries, including in Ukraine, have it as their beloved mother tongue, literally a tongue of your beloved mother who loved you on it and given it to you, and by calling it "a language of the aggressor" you make innocent people feel worse than sh*t while they didn't do anything wrong, they are EQUAL human beings with human rights like you, like me, and like your children? I seriously think Ukraine MUST revise their disgusting retoric which reeks ethno-racism. This whole attitude is what messed this poor country up! Under the same pretext Ukraine itself was uprooting the Russian language and the Russian culture in Donbas, the native language and culture of the people there. Are you guys seriously have IQ in single digits not to understand that if you despise a local language in a region and try to forcibly convert them into an another language, cr*p on their culture, they are going to secede?
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@vicsabanty5 putin is choir-boy compared to Netanyahu.
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@MegaNordkapp it's not a "murderer" or a "victim" it is two states at war. let's for a starter call a cat a cat.
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@OlgaGorchynska "With all due respect, the only people who live well in Russia are oligarchs." I feel like you are repeating some BS from the UKrainian TV. Ordinary Russians maybe don't live as good as ordinary Germans or French, but they live a hell better than 80% of the World population and better than ordinary Ukrainians. You know NOTHING about the real Russia, apart of Ukrainian videos from some poor Russian towns. I can find you abject poor towns even in USA with Americans living in complete sh*t without access to clean water.
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@MeeesterBond17 Excellent! I write that in my citation notebook (which I truly have).
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Russification is a partially BS-propaganda. Ukrainian cities never spoke Ukrainian in the first place, which was noticed even by Hrushevsky himself, who considered only the countryside being the real nation of Ukraine. Ukrainian cities were speaking Russian, Yiddish and Polish. Actually even Yiddish was dominant at some moments. The Ukrainian language dominated the countryside. Ukrainian peasants were coming to the cities like if they were coming abroad. You can read all that in the book of Andreas Kappeler "Russians and Ukrainians: unequal brothers". People learning Russian to work and speak with each other was an absolutely normal process, like people from different communities were learning English to speak with each other in a lingua-franca in USA. Also since Russian was a lingua-franca in Russian Empire and USSR, you bet the higher education was in Russian, so people were voluntarily adopting it because it was a cool language of educated folks vs peasantry. You can google the credentials of Andreas Kappeler yourself, I say to avoid hyping him. P.S. If you wanna know what was the real "Russification" check out on how France was imposing the French language on different non-French speaking communities of the country.
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@GateOfSteins literally EVERY major European nation was heavily involved in "Russification", I site you out of my head: France completely wrecked ALL their dialects and local languages to impose French in schools up to literally BEATING kids who were speaking dialects, the UK: completely wrecked local languages through imposing English in schools, check out what they did in Ireland, Germany: imposed the high-German in education etc. Ukraine speaks about Russification with around 60% of Ukraine and all its countryside speaking Ukrainian and spoke Ukrainian in the Russian Empire. In Ireland people barely speak Gaelic, in the French Brittany Breton is spoken by 3,5 babushkas in remote villages, THAT is what I call "Russification": nothing local language left, only a scorched ground.
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Ukraine is a Democratic because US says it is?
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@christophercousins184 Also in Ukraine EVEN BEFORE 2022: 1)they were shooting opposition bloggers, they were arresting, torturing and killing pro-Ru people (pro-Ru doesn't necessarily mean fighters, before fighters there were just pro-Ru people who thought Ukr should be friends with Ru), 2)they come to concerts of singers who sang in Russia and wreck concerts, 3)they ban scientific books which are going against their nationalistic ideology, 4)on TV they ban any opinion which disagrees with their nationalistic crap, 5)they kick all free discussion out of history classes in schools and universities and force everyone to study the ONLY TRUE VERSION OF "TRUTH™" basically super ideologized version of the history. 6)If you will dare in post 2014 Ukraine to go on the street and ask for the Ru language to become second national, you'll have nationalistic armed men coming and roughing you up. 7)they ban all movies which are not ideologically correct 8)if you will dare to criticize their fascist hero Stepan Bandera, you'll have nationalistic henchmen coming and beating the shit out of you. OK you can elect the president in a totalitarian society, very good, but your society is totalitarian: any wrong thoughts are not tolerated, any wrong books are not tolerated, any wrong movies are banned, any wrong ideas you express are reported to competent people. Seriously what kind of freedom is this???? I left Ukr 20 years ago and I'm telling you I'm never never ever coming back. It's worse than USSR. Gorbachev's USSR had thousand times more freedom than today's Ukraine.
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@pierman4858 how can you protest if you believe that your war there is justified or inevitable?
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@pierman4858 I agree with a lot of things you say. But I feel that your comments are very one-sided, but if you look at other non-Western countries in the World, their opinion is much more neutral and not one-sided. You look at the things from the Ukrainian standpoint, but you don't take into account the Russian standpoint and interests. Last time a country tried to put nukes at the US border, the USA wanted to erase this country from the face of the planet. And stopped on the verge, when the missiles were removed and a promise was given to never put them there again. Why for Russians it should be any different? Google the Paul Wolfowitz Doctrine. The dude made a doctrine after the Cold War: no country in the World should EVER challenge US influence. If it does, it should be thwarted in one way or another. The war in Ukraine is about geopolitics. It's about USA and Russia fighting for the influence at the Russian doorstep. USA tries to neutralize Russian influence and gain the momentum over Russians by any means. And Russia trying to resist it. In 2011 ABSOLUTE MAJORITY of Ukrainian people were against going into ANY military bloc. Anyone of these big democrats cared about what the Ukrainian people had to say?! No. They decided to drag Ukrainians into NATO anyways regardless of what Ukrainians wanted. Before Yushchenko NO Ukrainian government ever said: "We want to join NATO", neither did Yanukovych. I think if Ukraine kept that non-alignment policy, there would have been no war.
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@arky5851 Do you ever wonder that in order to build a friggin factory, a mine or a hospital, you need qualified workers which can be severely in lack locally? Do you ever tried to read a manual on the Ukrainian history of a real historian and not a propagandist? Also "to consolidate imperial control" LMAO because an Empire should not consolidate itself, right?
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@arky5851 Did you actually forget that "these regions" were NEVER a part of Ukraine. They were taken by the Russian Empire from the Ottoman Turks, cities were built there by the Russian Empire and the population in these cities were MIXED from the very start: Jews, Russians and Ukrainians.
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@steezydan8543 Around 20 000 Ukrainian civilians were killed in the War in Ukraine in 34 months. That includes also Ukrainian citizen killed by the Ukrainian shelling of their own citizes captured by Russia. Around 45 000 G*zan civilians, including around 11 000 children were killed by I***eli Army (Filistinayns don't have heavy weapons) in 15 months. Not mentionning colonization policies and open calls for genocide by Is***eli politicians. Putin is a choir boy, compared to Netanyahu.
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@kisi5209 "Russian people are not free" is a VERY ideological statement. A Russian would tell you that YOU American are not free: your taxes go to pay for Israel and a bunch of military corporations and not on your education and health. Any health bill can get you ruined for life. To get a higher degree you should get in debt up your a**. Absolute majority of young working Americans cannot allow to pay a rent and live with room-mates. Your American boss can fire you summarily and your uneployment benefits are ridiculously meager. So what is your freedom? To elect between one dude who wants to scr*w you and another dude who wants the same? OK lol. And a Russian cannot chose a non-Putin? And how Putin influences his every single day life? Not a lot. He is sitting somewhere in Moscow.
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Don't compare incomparable. Is**el killed around 5 times more civilians then Ukrainian civilians were killed by both sides during the war in Ukraine. And the Russian occupation policies are a choir-boy compared to Is***li occupation policies.
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Hmas lol, tell me if there is any warcrime that the state of I*****l did not commit. Hmas is a best friend of N****nyahu.
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Russian is a mother tongue of Zelensky. He litterally had to study Ukrainian.
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you simplify the complicated problem to the EXTREME. How about USA goes away from Guantanamo? Or Israel goes away from Palestine which LEGALLY doesn't belong to it? Oh yeah, I forgot the unbeatable universal Western argument: "that's different". Invasion is only bad when it is an another team who makes it.
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of course, anyone who disagrees with you is a bot
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the only American agreement is "America first" and it won't even come to mind to American elites to question what is wrong about that.
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@georgewashington1621 People voted for Yanukovych in 2010 and then a group of people, NOT the whole nation, toppled him. And USA said: it's good. It's basically "a democracy when I say it is a democracy and when it is convenient to my interests".
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@georgewashington1621 only part of the Ukrainian nation voted for Poroshenko and Zelensky, Crimea was out, Donbas was out, all previous parties were banned, their activists were pressured, arrested, expelled, some were flat killed and all that was accompagnied by a massive scale propaganda on the Ukrainian TV not to vote for parties who were made by former pro-Yanukovych people. This is absolutely in no way a fair eletion by the entire Ukrainian nation like with Yanukovych. Like I friggin care whom Putin acknowledges or not.
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@georgewashington1621 not all the Ukrainian nation voted for Zelensky and Poroshenko: Crimea and Donbass was out, Ukrainian opposition from former pro-Yanukovych parties were harassed, jailed and sometimes killed. Plus massive propaganda on the TV.
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@chu-cha Нация, где граждане готовы воевать за их страну, когда их зовут, ви таки говорите, как будто это- что-то плохое.
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@chu-cha citizen who are ready to fight for their country, you say like if it is a bad thing
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@OlgaGorchynska Russian women, kids, elderly people, killed many people in Ukraine??? When you say "Russians" do you actually think about ANYONE apart of deciders or Russian motivated volunteers? I have NEVER seen ANY Russian official say that they despise the Ukrainian people. Government: yes, active nationalists: yes, but never the Ukrainian people.
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@arky5851 LMAO Japan is in TOP 0,5% of the World population in the matter of the quality of life. So Russia who just a bit behind Japan is a HELLUVA great level and better than 80% of the World population. Get your figures straight!
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@OlgaGorchynska Russians are not Putin and Russian soldiers and politicians. It's also Russian women, kids, elderly people and millions of people who have nothing to do with the war in Ukraine.
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@OlgaGorchynska Because the level of life in the Western countries is still higher than in Russia? But did you actually know that Western countries are like 12,5% of Human population? That gives you around 86-87% of the World population who lives outside of the West and has a level of life MUCH lower than Russia. But I understand that for a citizen of Uk****e there are only the West, Ukraine and Russia on this Planet. Rest either doesn't exist or are some beasts not worth to be mentionned. If Russia has a level of life higher than 86% of the World population, it makes them on the top of the list objectively.
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@robertevansiii1445 I think, saying that your post is overly simplified and biaised is a heavy understatement.
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@robertevansiii1445 Why to complicate it? Maybe because it is complicated? Because if suddendly Mexico decides to enter into Alliance with Russia and China and allow them to deploy their nukes and weapons of mass destruction at the US border, US will immediately invade Mexico and will give you arguments which will look strikingly similar to Russian arguments?
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@robertevansiii1445 Look, I'm subscribed and I watch every day of the week the American channel Democracy Now. They say: the invasion of Ukraine is disgusting and violates borders and principles of the International law, the Israeli land steal and murder of innocent Palestinian civilians is disgusting for the same reason, and the US invasion of Iraq is the same. THAT I understand and accept. But when people come around and start: Yes Russian Invasion is disgusting, but when it's US or Israel, oh here it is a different thing, because of 1001 made up narratives, here I say f.u. When you say: there is an International Law, but it works on some countries and not on anothers, I call all this BS justice what it is: a BS.
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@robertevansiii1445 I agree with you when we apply the same law on every country and not like US does: yes these invaders are criminals, but these other guys who are our allies: that's different.
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@robertevansiii1445 You know why? Same reason why the YT immediately deletes any comment, mentionning one interesting country between Egypt and Syria. You are talking about the International Law and I like it. But on 1 condition: if it applies on EVERY country and not : these guys are bad because they violated the law, but these guys it's different and here are our 1001 narratives of why.
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@georgewashington1621 Napoleon was dead in XIX century. His legacy lives till today. If we talk major changes in a country, 30 years is nothing.
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