Comments on: Ukraine blog update

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:44:59 +0000

Dearieme, as is often the case with your remarks, I really don’t know what you’re talking about, and I strongly suspect you don’t, either. (You obviously know little about Ukranian nationalism, but then, you seem to know little about anything.)

By: dearieme

dearieme — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:29:43 +0000

Matt, after their treatment by Stalin and then Hitler, they were delighted to be treated as just people. But they were known as “Ukes”, not “Russians” or anything else. In a world of real woes, decadent, self-congratulatory notions of “respect” had not been invented.

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Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:59:46 +0000

[...] Ukraine blog updateJust a reminder that there are quite a few interesting posts on the Ukraine study tour blog. You may remember that I blogged a couple of weeks ago about taking part in a study tour of Ukraine organised by two UK trusts and stuffed with … [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:37:21 +0000

You know, dearieme, that since it’s mostly Ukranians who want to be acknowledged as such, not doing so is treating them with less respect then a human should have.

By: dearieme

dearieme — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:59:37 +0000

I grew up in rural Scotland but we had some of “Ukes” living nearby. Alas, those were days before multiculturism and diversity , so we mistakenly thought they were just people.