Russian speakers (meaning preferring Russian, because everyone speaks Russian) are majority in Ukraine. It was Lenin-defender minority (and the "vacationers" from Russia).
Of course it's the most right wing thing to sympathise with people who took up arms to defend Lenin statues while flying Soviet flags.
I remembered wrong, majority among most urban populations. Including Kiev.
Except in Lviv and such in the former Austro-Hungarian areas (Galicia).
The peasants have opposed the Russification similar to how they resisted the Collectivisation (when millions have been killed as kulaks for the latter to prevail). It was also the peasantry that was the UON/UPA recruit pool during and after WWII.
This. Not joining NATO isn't enough when the Ukrainian revolutionary government has been fighting a war against its Russian minority for eight years.
Russian speakers (meaning preferring Russian, because everyone speaks Russian) are majority in Ukraine. It was Lenin-defender minority (and the "vacationers" from Russia).
Of course it's the most right wing thing to sympathise with people who took up arms to defend Lenin statues while flying Soviet flags.
According to the 2001 census there were about twice as many Ukrainian-speaking Ukrainians as Russian-speaking Ukrainians, and 4.5 times as many ethnic Ukrainians as ethnic Russians.
I remembered wrong, majority among most urban populations. Including Kiev.
Except in Lviv and such in the former Austro-Hungarian areas (Galicia).
The peasants have opposed the Russification similar to how they resisted the Collectivisation (when millions have been killed as kulaks for the latter to prevail). It was also the peasantry that was the UON/UPA recruit pool during and after WWII.