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Dissident Sound | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 not Russian People - Russian power.

Ukraine doesn't want to be subject to rule from Moscow.
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Low Information Voter | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I don't doubt it; but the other choices appear to be "Bandera death cult" or "Blackrock".

26% of potential conscripts voted "Russia" with their feet.
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Dissident Sound | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 when i lived in Ukraine not a single person wanted to move to Russia.

everybody wanted to move to Europe.

i moved to America because i'm a Jew and America invited me as such.
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Low Information Voter | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I don't doubt it for a moment, but the Ukraine of the early 90s was not the Ukraine of 2014, much less 2024.

Russia has moved in the opposite direction, albeit less dramatically
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Dissident Sound | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Russia has better natural resources and enjoyed better stability in recent decades compared to Ukraine ...
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Low Information Voter | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 100%. Would be very interesting to know how they came to develop so differently.