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Thank you! It's inspiring to see your reaction. I've had quite a mess in my life lately. But I hope I'll post more in the next few days or weeks.

I was born in Ukraine, occupied by Soviet Russia - and lived almost the whole of my life in Ukraine. 2.5 years ago, I repatriated to Israel as partly Jew. I'm LGBTQ+ friendly. Most of my exes are bisexual. And some of them aren't cisgender. I suppose I myself could be bisexual genderfluid. I...

By the way, most of my Moscovian friends moved out from russia. Some to Ukraine. And some to other countries. Poland, Austria, Hungary, Spain, Italy, the UK, the US, Canada, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, and others.

But partly, you're right. One of them got married and bought with her husband a house in a small village near Moscow (maybe she sold her apt in Moscow). The second one has moved from SPb to Pethergoff - a small touristic town near SPb. Then one of our common friends told me she returned to SPb...

Oh, sorry, it's a "soviet" term - and now I see it needs explanation. (I turned 15 just before the independence of Ukraine - but I was quite a smart kid in a family who didn't believe the soviet propaganda, so I started understanding all around my 8-10 y.o.) The "Internal immigration" term meant...

I know nothing about their relationships with the government. But for now, one of them completely deleted her FB profile - and her old email is also unavailable. And the second's posted on 24 Feb, "War is over! If you want it." photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono - and then never touched this...

Oh-wow! Moscovits are trying to destroy us physically. Americans are giving us some weapons (which are obviously not enough) and are "commenting on war and propaganda"! Americans didn't make even a few percent invasions to independent countries compared to Moscovians during the last few...

Oh, I've heard something about Uyghurs and Tibetans. Yes, it sounds similar. Not exactly the same - but some parallels are pretty obvious. I have some. Before 2013-14 I'd (thought I'd) have thousand of russian friends. Now I have one FB friend in Moscow - he can't move abroad now but wish by...

What do you mean?

Exactly.

Yes, it's all very similar. A lot of Ukrainians, Belarusians, and other nations that had been occupied by russia are often comparing russia to China in this meaning. Here is a significant difference between russia and China. China has thousands of years of history - and history of culture in...

It's because Russia is still an empire - as I've mentioned in my previous message.

Oh, and not only for Ukrainians. I think the breakup of the SU was a positive thing for most citizens of other "republics" (post-soviet countries now). As the breakup of the "Warsaw block" was also a happy event for its members' citizens (like the citizens of Poland you've mentioned). Also, I'm...

Most Russians are still imperialists and chauvinists. Even most of those who call themselves "liberals". That's why they hate Gorbachyov. They agree with "hutin-puilo" who said that the breakup of the SU was "the biggest geo-political catastrophe of the XX-th century). For me, who just turned 15...

I'll think about it.

For those interested, I've decided to post it in Life Stories and Blogs like Evie proposed. https://polyamory.com/threads/russian-culture-is-an-instrument-of-imperialism-and-colonialism.155090/

I'm Ukrainian. I live in Israel now - it wasn't my choice, but the result of many circumstances, starting from covid-19 and ending the current war in Ukraine. I'll write here about how I stopped consuming the Russian culture - and how it changed my mind. When I was a child and teen, I went to...

Oh, and about the "great" russian culture. I've completely changed my mind about it during the last ten years. And I had significant reasons for it. I don't see an offtopic section on this forum, so if anybody is interested, I could describe it on this topic.

Now my sister and I mostly speak Ukrainian (sis even started teaching Ukrainian to her native Israeli partner). My brother and our mom still speak russian. P.S. I think I need to explain: I write "russia" and "russian" words with a lowercase "r" as a sign of disrespect. (Some Ukrainians even...

You have nothing to be sorry for. Many people in Israel speak russian - including those of Ukrainian origin. So I accept it (although it doesn't make me happy). Unfortunately, when Ukraine was occupied by Russia, the Ukrainian language was gradually eradicated by the Russian. For instance, in...