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Low Information Voter | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I used to have a lot of friends in WMA who would travel to Voleyn every year to fight.

They'd report back that Russians are often ignorant, drunken homophobes; and Ukrainians are often ignorant, drunken homophobe neo-nazis with swastika tattoos who brag about beating up foreign students and being paid muscle for politicians.

That was about 2008-2011.

Putin is shamefully misrepresenting your country, but the fascists he talks about are known outside Ukraine.
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rooc | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Voleyn?

I live in Ukraine since 90s. I speak russian in public. Never ever meet a single one fascist. Never had problems with russian lang. There was never a fascist party in parlament. I'm a progammer. I know a lot of super smart ukranian programmers and mathematicians. Don't you think that you can't picture all ukrainians from your friends reports? Also I think probably there are nazy in ukraine. Probably they are in your country. So what. It can somehow excuse invasion in your country?
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AVERAGE_GARY | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 So cool to see civil discourse about such topics without severe emotion or ad hominem attack.
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rooc | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 no ) I am very angry 😡
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AVERAGE_GARY | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 And rightly so, war is hell. Sorry for any of your losses.