> how ukrainians sided with the nazis, the french, the swedes those were always the minorities. mazepa was followed by a minority of zaporozhian cossacks. the majority sided with the tsar. nationalists were the minority during the ww1. they were only able to maintain 15-20k army and relied first on the german, then on the polish troops to wage the war. you know, the professional army and the actual nationalist people with large support for the movement. oun upa was a western ukrainian (the ex-austria/poland controlled land) movement that had next to fuck all to do with the rest of the republic during the ww2. the issue with the modern state of ukraine is precisely how anomalous this glorification of minority movements is. it's literally all na funding coming to a broke country and buying up all of the media, academia and politicians wholesale, on top of the long-existing aerodynamic groundwork. the grandchildren of migrs living somewhere in the west seized the opportunity to, quite literally, tell the people there about their country. they groomed the entire youth 30 years and under to tell them how much of based nationalists they should be, because nationalists serve best at the function of dying for the cause. hohols modern nationbuilding is entirely about larping as a frontier cossack settlement defending their masters against some hordes and denying everything russia. that, on top of total demoralization, self-hatred and obsession with the cultured and wealthy west. many will kill and die for the idea of their people getting the crumbs of said western wealth and recognition as part of the club. the last part isn't unique to ukraine though. the entirety of eastern europe has been infested with this virus for decades as the inferior ideology left its place for the "superior" one. the only reason russia "dodged the bullet" is because the west itself rejected russia time and time again despite still freely propagating the same message.
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