Yes it does, but nationalism (read: rabid Russophobia) has been systematically nourished and encouraged through decades of clandestine financing of Ukrainian diaspora by western intelligence agencies, and then later by various NGOs in Ukraine in last 30 years. It is a supreme irony (which I pointed out elsewhere) that the most "hard-core…
Yes it does, but nationalism (read: rabid Russophobia) has been systematically nourished and encouraged through decades of clandestine financing of Ukrainian diaspora by western intelligence agencies, and then later by various NGOs in Ukraine in last 30 years. It is a supreme irony (which I pointed out elsewhere) that the most "hard-core" Ukrainians would now be in Poland, Romania and Hungary instead of Ukraine if not for Stalin's redraw of post-WW2 map in which Ukraine was one of the biggest beneficiary.
Yes it does, but nationalism (read: rabid Russophobia) has been systematically nourished and encouraged through decades of clandestine financing of Ukrainian diaspora by western intelligence agencies, and then later by various NGOs in Ukraine in last 30 years. It is a supreme irony (which I pointed out elsewhere) that the most "hard-core" Ukrainians would now be in Poland, Romania and Hungary instead of Ukraine if not for Stalin's redraw of post-WW2 map in which Ukraine was one of the biggest beneficiary.
Here is a high profile member of this "diaspora":
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/chrystia-freelands-granddad-was-indeed-a-nazi-collaborator-so-much-for-russian-disinformation/