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The true causes of the current war between Russia and Ukraine [174]
Didn`t Micheal say: southeastern Ukraine
Malorossian was considered as a dialect between other southern Russian dialects in that time.
At the same time, current standard of so called ukrainian language based mostly on dialect of Galician Russins, heavily contaminated by polonisms...
So, if ukrainians (banderites) is really offspring of nationalistic political party in Austro-Hungary (as stated in volume 13 of Catholic Encyclopedia, printed in New York in 1913), then they have nothing to do with Russian lands on the East... If Ukrainians is really have Cossack blood (as stated in ukrainian anthem) - then again fault, galicians have no Cossack blood, unless some their grand-grand...-mother was a woman with "lowered social responsibility" as now tend to tell about prostitutes in Russian. ;)