Thread by @maksymeristavi

appreciate @McFaul‘s solidarity with ukraine. but also would appreciate him to stop rebroadcasting russian colonial mythology. speaking russian in ukraine in 90% has no relation to russian ethnicity. on the opposite - it’s a byproduct of russian colonial erasure of ukrainian lang

https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1502499687290617856

i am actually a russian speaking ukrainian born and raised on the soil mentioned here. this is such a western gaze nonsense fed by russian colonial mythology and i‘d love for american media to give platform to ukrainians instead on anything related to our identity @MaddowBlog

i get why russians, both putinists and not, keep pushing this narrative — this is just a step away from denying the ongoing genocide of ukrainians and their collective responsibility for it, because ‘hey there’s no genocide possible since there are russian victims too’

they use the same colonial mythology to deny the holodomor genocide of ukrainians and russian collective responsibility for it to the very this day.