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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dutch508 on September 25, 2019, 04:39:29 PM
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Star Member TrogL (32,220 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212502453
Has the Ukraine confirmed the transcript?
I listened to somebody reading it on the radio and it sounded like something Trump would write.
:whatever: The President of the Ukraine came out and said Trump didn't pressure him. Hows that for a confirmation?
Star Member mahina (9,963 posts)
3. Ukraine. No "the" needed. Thanks heaps.
:thatsright:
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Star Member mahina (9,963 posts)
3. Ukraine. No "the" needed. Thanks heaps.
On one hand, "the U" was common usage here in the US during the Soviet era. That ended some 30 years ago, and Ukraine is independent, but old habits ... . What Star Member TrogL probably does not know is that the Soviet era, especially the 20s through the 40s, were not good times in Ukraine, putting it VERY mildly. So much so that when the Nazis first invaded, many Ukrainians supported them, thinking they would be freed from the monster Stalin and not knowing that Hitler was equally monstrous and viewed Ukrainians as subhumans to be enslaved or slaughtered.
So many Ukrainians have serious antipathy toward the Russians - possibly the root of mahina's snip - which Putin has recently renewed, and many Russians call Ukrainians "Nazis" for having briefly supported Hitler during the "Great Patriotic War".