• narwhal@mander.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Don’t listen to them. First thing putin asked was “do you want a talk show or a serious conversation?” You don’t need to agree with him but the whole interview was a reasonable and civilized attempt to show the russian perspective to western audiences.

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      9 months ago

      Except for the fact that he’s making a lot of shit up, I’m from eastern europe and none of his stories about Poland, Lithuania and Kievan Rus were accurate at all.

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        9 months ago

        Even if they were true, his point is that “we used to own Ukraine so we’re going to kill people until we do again”

        You know, like fascists do.

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        9 months ago

        Also Wonder if he lost a word about the Kievan Rus’ which would give Ukraine a stronger claim on russian territory than what Russia claims for Ukraine belonging to it. Not that you should go there but that whole line of arguing doesn’t even work for itself

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          Of course he did not. That’s why they removed the word Kievan from that term in History textbooks, it’s now just Rus, no Kiev