ESay
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I was talking to a friend of mine not too long ago; according to him the Ukraine crisis was created solely to punish Russia for its support of Syria and Iran.
Where does your friend live?
Thinking that the Ukrainian crisis was inspired solely by neo-fascists with the help of the US is fooling yourself. If you want to comprehend the core reason of hostility between contemporary Ukrainians and contemporary Russians, you should look not on the events of the last two years or the last twenty years or so. You should begin with Kievan Rus and other Rus principalities, then take a look at the times after the Mongol invasion when there became to exist significant differences between so-called North-Eastern Rus and so-called South-Western Rus, then try to understand the conception of “Little Russian identity” and the other conception (which is rival to the former) of Ukrainian national identity. And, as an addition, you can read something about “славянофилы” and “западники”.