The Ukrainian diaspora to date...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/where-people-ukraine-are-fleeing
Nothing like war to spur a migration that could have happened peacefully had everybody been in their natural homeland from the get-go...
Kinda hard to argue now anybody left in-theater is not there by choice, eh?
I heard on internet that the Ukrainian emigrants after around 2014 for sure were different than before. They got real pumped up on hyper nationalism. Not like before. Some of this comes from EU opinions. Much comes from Ukrainians themselves.
I am not an expert historian on all this. I know that Stalin shipped people from their natural homelands to wherever he wanted. I know that he drew borders through parts of natural homelands. There were methods to his madness but I cannot recall what the reasons were. The best thing now is to encourage people to get along.
I read about some country that is part of the EU. They have some minority maybe Hungarian. The country refused to teach the minority in their language. The EU said this was a human right and forced it. I think that Stalin drew the Ukrainian boundary through some mostly Russian areas. I think that Kharkov was traditionally Russian but Stalin drew the Ukrainian border east of it. Odessa was Russian but now Ukrainians view it as part of their sacred Ukrainian land and outlawed Russian in education, govt and commerce. They removed statutes of Catherine the great who founded the city.
I had some Italian guy David visiting some Sami speaking part of Russia but could not find them as Stalin had transported lots of Russians, Ukrainians, and Tartars who were dominant in that part he was in thanks to the gulags. The Sami speakers were mostly further south.
Many in the US know nothing of history and expect the rest of the world to be like the US. 21 of 22 Russian republics have at least one additional official language to Russian taught in public schools.
Bald and Bankrupt visited a country called Sokh. Sokh is an enclave inside a second country that is part of an external third country but speaks a different language from either two countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%CA%BBx_DistrictSo?x District (also spelled as Sokh, Uzbek) ... is a district of Uzbekistan's Fergana Region.
It consists of two exclaves of Uzbekistan, surrounded by Kyrgyzstan. Despite being part of Uzbekistan, its population is almost entirely ethnic Tajiks. ...
Fun video for me. https://youtu.be/34XymEDY9Wc?t=1500Entering A Mysterious Exclave You've Never Heard Of ( In A Soviet Bi-plane )
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Earlier this year myself and Alina tried entering an Uzbek exclave surrounded entirely by Kyrgyzstan. If you saw the video you will know that we were not allowed in. But we don't give up that easy...And so when we discovered that there was a new flight route started up from Uzbekistan to the unknown exclave of Sokh we decided we would have to investigate and try to get in somehow to see what lay there beyond the mountains. Oh and it just happened to mean flying on an old Soviet bi-plane. How could anyone resists such an adventure?!
