Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Review: The Gates of Europe by Serhii Plokhy" video.

  1. "Ukraine, which meant, "borderland."" Grabs popcorn and scrolls through comments
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  2.  BLUE DOG  Lol what? If this is implying the Bolsheviks were part of "International Jewry" (which is a phrase created by the Nazis), you're wrong. Despite the early Party being largely Jewish, they hated Jews- they saw themselves as Bolshevik Communists, nothing else. Stalin was Lenin's accidental mistake. Also, he killed close to 5 million Russians, mostly officers, out of paranoia. Many hundreds of thousands more sent to Siberia. We hate him just as much as you. But you (like us) should also be grateful for him. Neither an independent Ukraine nor Russia could have stopped Nazi Germany, and Hitler's final plan was to kill all Slavs. That includes Ukrainians.
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  3. While I happily agree with you, I regret to inform you that you're a minority in both countries. Either side wants to claim the whole of the Kievan Rus' history as their own; even my own family does this. But, much like a хрущёвка, we all have to learn to share the space together.
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