Originally Posted by
chihuahua
Assuming you aren't trolling. Ukraine has it's own language, culture, traditions, and identity. There are many Ukrainians in the U.S. They don't want to be called Russians, because they are not, they're Ukrainians and it's different than the Russian culture. Same with Poland and all the other former Soviet countries. They were all under control of the U.S.S.R, which no longer exists, but still had their own ethnicities, cultures, and traditions.
Originally Posted by
galaxy flyer
To say the Ukraine is not a nation is high order historical ignorance. Look up Ruthenian
Yes. In fact modern ethnic Russians are actually descended from people who once migrated out of the Ukraine region.