File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0002, message 356


Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 19:30:13 -0500
From: ARON KAY <pieman-AT-pieman.org>
Subject: Re: Ukraine Hystery./ POWs and the SS


stalin was from georgia not the ukraine

Jerald Hellemeyer wrote:

> I took Russian my freshman year in college.  Our instructor was Ukrainian.
> She was of the opinion that Russians and Ukrainians were essentially the
> same people but with "cosmetic" differences in their language and culture
> much like northerners and southerners in the U$.
>
> As she explained it, early in their history, the Russian people were divided
> into many principalities.  Moscow and Kiev (to name only 2 principalities)
> were in a struggle for dominance.  Moscow won and Kiev never forgot it.  It
> is not much different than the after effects of the U$ civil war.  Many in
> the american south still believe the south to be an ethnically and
> culturally distinct region subjugated by an imperialist north.  The
> Ukrainians, however, have been holding on to their grudge for many more
> centuries making the feelings more intense.
>
> Also, I doubt that Stalin (a Ukrainian himself) would have risen to power in
> Russia proper if the Ukraine were truly a foreign culture.  Russians tend to
> be suspicious of "foreigners."
>
> Jerald
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