first of all, are you even serious at this point? our "rulers" (though they always sucked) tried to erase their language, identity, culture for centuries, so from this point the hatred is well deserved (even though it's often aimed at those who are victims of the same fuckers for much more and much longer. another point is russian and ukrainian tv channels are run by kikes, who sicked us onto each other since at least 2002. i'm not sure about ukrainian channels, but russians surely did; and that is exactly why you shouldn't allow usurpation of mass-media (which is the basis for propaganda, and considering what it can bring, it should be way more illegal than other monopolies) and the answer to your first question is no. we're definitely different people, they're better than us.
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