Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "American Who Lived 8 Years in Ukraine Speaks Out on Russia War" video.
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@kikoabril6520 Are you sick? The famine in the USSR was not aimed at the genocide of certain peoples - Stalin simply needed grain to be exported abroad, and this grain was taken from the peasants. Peasants of all nationalities - in Russia and Kazakhstan, people also died of hunger. As for the Russian language, what is the political influence? Ukraine has been part of the Russian Empire for almost its entire history, and then the Soviet Union. People there have been speaking Russian for generations, not Ukrainian. It's been ingrained for a long time. Russian Russians and Ukrainians are fraternal Slavic peoples, and the Russian language differs little from the Ukrainian one. As of 2021, 60% of Ukrainian citizens spoke Russian in everyday life. The ban of the Russian language in a country like Ukraine is about the same as the ban of the British dialect of English in the United States. In Ukraine, 20% of the population are Russians, and banning Russian-speaking schools in such conditions is a crime and Nazism. As for Nazism, I also want to remind you that soldiers of regiments like "Azov", "Aidar", etc. literally walk with swastikas and Nazi flags.
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@inwoond3900 Nationalism is a tool by which the state rallies the people around itself, drawing an image of an external threat in the form of another people. The German Nazis saw Jews as an existential threat. But this does not mean that other Nazis who exist in the World should also hate Jews, hatred can be experienced for any nation. Ukraine in 2013 was divided between the West and the East, between Russia and the European Union. Ukraine had to decide with whom to establish economic ties. As a result, a pro-Western revolution took place in Ukraine in 2013-14, the purpose of which was Ukraine's accession to the European Union and the rupture of relations with Russia. As a result of the revolution, some corrupt officials in power were replaced by other corrupt officials in power, Ukraine suffered an economic collapse in 2014-15, and also mired in a separatist war against the Russian-speaking regions of the East, who, seeing Nazi and Russophobic slogans, wanted to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. In April 2014, Ukraine began an essentially civil war between the revolutionary authorities in Kiev and Russian separatists from the Donbass. Russia, having seen the pro-Western revolution in Ukraine, seeing how Ukraine decided to break economic ties with Russia, decided to take back its own, taking Crimea and supporting Russian separatists in the Donbas, where Russia supplied weapons, and since July 2014 Russia has brought its troops into the Donbass. The Ukrainian troops were defeated and pushed back, but since war was not declared, Russia could not conduct combat operations in full force to avoid losses. The war went on for more than a year, after which the conflict in the Donbas was frozen, because it became clear that neither side could achieve success. In 2016 and 2017, Ukraine conducted minor offensives in the Donbas for the purpose of military exercises and reconnaissance. And in 2022, Putin decided to seize the whole of Ukraine, but he did not succeed
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