Is President Obama admitting we caused overthrow of Ukraine's government?

[MattSh]

90. Geez. You've never heard of the Soviet Union?

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AKA, the USSR? Seriously?

OF COURSE they're speaking Russian. Russian was the lingua franca of the USSR. Ukraine was part of the USSR.

Sadly, you don't seem to know much about the world outside the USA. Do you really think that in countries around the world that everybody speaks the national language and as soon as you cross the border, volia! everybody speaks another language?



And this map even overstates the prevelence of Ukrainian in Kiev. I've lived here over 9 years and I can tell you it's difficult to find Ukrainian speakers in Kiev.

And how about this?



The territory where the war is happening was a part of Russia but Lenin ceded it to the Ukraine SSR. At that time it was absolutely meaningless, because they were all part of the same country. Likewise, Khrushchev ceded Crimea to Ukraine SSR in 1954. Again absolutely meaningless. Until the USSR broke up. Then residents of the areas found themselves in an alien nation, one they had no voice in deciding.

Here's a screenshot from the largest online retailer in Ukraine, based in Kiev. Notice the (044) number? That's Kiev. Notice the "This page is in Russian. Would you like to translate it?