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For me southern cities built by Russian Empire are more valuable than lots of cities inside current Russian borders. Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson are the pearls of the Russian south. The problem of sentimental attitude towards Ukrainians that there was no strict separation of Russians/Ukrainians with Soviet schizophreniac idea of "brother nations", while there are Russians, Ukrainians loyal to Russia who will become Russians in two generations if we live in united state and concious Ukrainians. Creating a state on territories of central Ukraine would give us an opportunity to finalize the separation, there are Russians, there are Ukrainians, not some ethnic transgenders with tendency to parasite on Russia. As i've said, after two generations as part of Russia, Ukrainism will be a sort of scary fairy tale in south-east. Ukrainians voluntarily become Russians in Russian ethnic cultural space, no violence or compulsion needed, they normally switch to superior culture. It goes like this for centuries, lots of Ukrainians of the past who moved to the cities became perfect Russians. The first ones to turn this process in the back direction were the commies, creating the ugly "pastoral elite".
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