#9, RE: Also, For the Record
Posted by rwpikul on Apr-16-14 at 01:53 AM
In response to message #7
>I'm not saying the modern-day Ukrainians don't have plenty of latitude
>for grievance there, obviously, nor that the modern Russian attitude
>that one can wind that tape back has any validity whatever, but
>terminologically, if you go back far enough... "Far enough" being just shy of 100 years. Ukraine only starts to come into being in 1917, (before that it was part of Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Poland, Lithuania, the Khanate of the Crimea or the Khanate of the Golden Horde, depending on location and year).
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