I’d be careful with that, may find out that one’s family was of broke ass Eastern European migrants, being at the bottom of the food chain along with natives.

Man, that template is old af.

So, in first few decades (if we ignore some elephants in the room, that my grandparents had to survive) living in village meant you belonged to entity, called “колгосп” (collective farmstead may be the best translation), people there didn’t even have USSR passports, just some papers about them belonging to that place. Villagers were paid for their work mainly by being allowed to take home some of the produce they made, and, most interestingly, they were heavily taxed for dumbest shit imaginable - if you, for example, had an apple tree in your backyard - yep, that’s a tax. Few strains of Ukrainian apples got extinct simply because of that. Later it got better, but at first people had to work for food and were perpetually in debt.

Noam Chomsky

Okay, thank you, but Red Khmer fan club is next door to the left.

Being from ex-soviet state (although the one most hated by tankies), I can say that older folks still remember how there were constantly talks about reaching communism in next 20 years, and, of course, there years didn’t count down.

Even genuine anti-war Russians have some hard cognitive dissonances when asked about all the small peoples of Russia, whose cultures and languages are about to be extinct because any display of your ethnic identity is labeled as “nationalism” and they’re just slowly getting erased.

Not to mention the Crimea question. Make it make sense, that “nazi Ukraine” had TV channels broadcasting in Crimean Tathar language, while Russia doesn’t.

Surprisingly, Ukrainian ambassador to Israel announced today that Israel sent some Patriots to Ukraine, previously given to them by US.

Oh boy, they better be careful with such statements or they’ll accidentally come at another man in White House who likes to greatly exaggerate or simply make up his achievements.