Thread: Stephen Cohen. Distorting Russia. How the American media misrepresent Putin...

Originally Posted by it-ogo

Basically "ethnic Russian" like myself here in Donbass is rather uncommon phenomenon. According to the statistics here we have somewhere about 40% Russians and 60% Ukrainians but in fact it means that a randoomly taken person has 40% of Russian ancestors and 60% of Ukrainian ones. You see, people here have several generations of marriages without giving a fax to anyone's ethnic background. And all the Ukrainian disorders were about building the state, not about anyone's ethnicity. They are Russian authorities who try to promote savage ethnic chauvinistic dimension to the problem.

I'm not married yet so I didn't consider that. But if I was in love then I know I wouldn't care if the girl was Scottish, Norwegian, Russian, Lithuanian, or whatever. So that makes sense. After a long time it would be very difficult to know who had what ethnicity.
So the only real split in Ukraine is between those who support the opposition and those who don't. I think I understand this better now. Thanks.

Originally Posted by UhOhXplode

So the only real split in Ukraine is between those who support the opposition and those who don't. I think I understand this better now.