The Tragic History of Ukrainians in the Russian Far East (Green Ukraine)

What happened to the Ukrainians in the Far East and Green Ukraine? Today we’re going to be looking at the historical and modern situation of Ukrainians in the Russian Far East, which is quite a tragic tale. Formerly a majority of settlers in this region, a combination of multiple factors over the past several decades has seen the Ukrainian population been reduced to a tiny fraction of their former numbers, making up no more than 1% of the region’s population in the 2021 Russian Census (although this is considered unreliable).
This video discusses somewhat painful topics including the historic and ongoing anti-Ukrainian sentiment widespread throughout Russia. This is not an attack on Russians. It would be a massive disservice to discuss the situation of Ukrainians in Russia and the Far East without mentioning it. Thank you for your support and thanks for watching!
Read more here:
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www.encyclopediaofukraine.com...
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[@ghostdreamer7272]

I’m always fascinated by who the indigenous peoples of Asian Russian are/were - such a huge land, only recently conquered.

[@NwoDispatcher]

Guess it depends on what you think conquer means

[@samwill7259]

It's are. Not were. They still live there as much as Putin and crew probably wish they didn't.

[@greywolf7422]

@@samwill7259 Nice Fictitious strawman.

[@ghostdreamer7272]

@@samwill7259 I just put that because I imagine many of them were killed, or their cultures completely destroyed and forcibly assimilated.

[@user-cl7pm7zm3x]

@@ghostdreamer7272bro fate of indigenous siberians very good compare to american indians. Large portions of land like yakut still have ethnic majority there is no such precedent in usa

[@anamationmax]

Happy someone talked about Green Ukraine! It's almost always forgotten about. Great video!

[@Alex_Urs]

I'm very glad you're back, Masaman! This was a very well researched and in depth analysis, thank you. For a future video, if it interests you, I suggest the identity dispute in the current Republic of Moldova, going back to 1812 when the Russian Empire first annexed that territory.

[@user-cl7pm7zm3x]

Identity disupite is not going back to this date since romanian identity have been created later lol

[@ratoimariurs5323]

​@@user-cl7pm7zm3xthe name Romania is since 1856 but the Romanians saw themselves as Romanians always so we are older than that from an ethnic point of view we created a nation because we were oppressed by the Hungarian tyrants.

[@mik823]

How do you know that this was a well researched and in-depth analysis? Have you done the research to verify Masons claims? Mason is a liar and a fraud.

[@ekesandras1481]

@@user-cl7pm7zm3x the principality of Moldova existed for hundreds of years

[@ekesandras1481]

@@ratoimariurs5323 you mean those Hungarian tyrants, that were able to provide their Romanian citizens in Transylvania, Banat, Maramures, etc. with a higher living standard, better education system, etc. than the Romanians in Moldova and Valachia had? Do you know where the first Romanian language school was (you can still visit it), do you know where the first Romanian language newspaper was printed? Do you know where the whole idea of Romanian national identity comes from (scoala ardeleana)?

[@vitoanania6042]

A famous Russian with Korean origins was the great Viktor Tsoi of the band Kino, one of the best rock band ever

[@zy9662]

Koreans Deported to Kazakhstan

[@TheBlinky81]

Цой жив!

[@1075Marijavera]

Thanks to this comment i have a new fav album thank you

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

Thank you for talking about it. Hardly ever any talk about it. Even in Ukraine it is not well-known that Ukrainians settled there even proclaimed independents after 1917.

[@zy9662]

Why they are not an independent country is beyond me

[@masonharvath-gerrans832]

@@zy9662 Russian imperialism and the genocides that come with it is one hell of a drug.

[@FerdinandGamelin]

​@@masonharvath-gerrans832 привет 😃

[@mik823]

What do you know about Slavic history? How do you know what Mason is saying is correct?

[@mik823]

@@masonharvath-gerrans832 what genocides are you referring to?

[@revinhatol]

You should learn more about the Chukchi, natives of the Chukotka region at the crossroads of both the Arctic and the Far East.

[@wauliepalnuts6134]

You have no idea how happy I am to see you upload again.

[@suslamo]

Glad you're back with awesome videos. And thank you for raising awareness of the history of my people.

[@delp4i135]

I'm Ukrainian from Donetsk, and my grandfather was born in Khabarovsk in the far-east during WW2. It was very interesting for me to get to know better about his birthplace, thank you so much for the video

[@viaceslavmikhailovich9825]

Is it so difficult for you to go to Khabarovsk and see everything with your own eyes?

[@delp4i135]

@@viaceslavmikhailovich9825 Yeah, bc I don't want to go to russia, only if khabarovsk separates itself or smth, then I'll go

[@myopicthunder]

You'd rather hide from conscription in Europe?

[@viaceslavmikhailovich9825]

@@delp4i135 So, you are one of those few individuals in Donbass who are supporting neo-Nazism. Yes, you have a difficult time now. Even NATO countries are tired of you.

[@konplayz]

Your city is in Russia though? 🤔

[@zeusnitch]

Sooooo glad you're back! I hope you hang around and make videos for a while :-)

[@L0KUST1]

I’m so glad to see you coming back Mason!

[@bklynsg6]

@masaman glad to see you're making new content, prayed for your health 🙏🏽

[@MappingEagle]

Mason has really been on a roll ever since he came back. Did you plan to make these videos after one another beforehand or are you just making these in between? Very impressive nevertheless.

[@el-gamer2773]

OMG PLEASE RETURN AND MAKE VIDEOS AGAIN

[@MappingEagle]

@@el-gamer2773 bro how did you even find me lmao

[@el-gamer2773]

@@MappingEagle coincidence but still pls return mapping is dying

[@MappingEagle]

⁠@@el-gamer2773this comment makes me feel like Batman in The Dark Knight Returns

[@el-gamer2773]

@@MappingEagle yes you are batman but for our sake only if you return to us

[@ThatsGuy-ri6ul]

Welcome back masaman!! We missed you!

[@thebeautifulgame2274]

Your content is like no other Masaman...it is great to have you back! 👏👏👏

[@stupidanimations8042]

Omgggggg I am so happyyy u finally posted I have been thinking abt u for like 5 months looking at your accounts for u to post

[@Russ92]

Thank you so much for covering this Mason!

[@novostranger]

Glad youre back for making more bangers

[@nothanks131]

You should revisit your Aztec, Maya, and Inca video. I’d love to see an in-depth view of “who are the Maya?” Addressing the unique “ladino” race in the Yucatán and Guatemala.

[@mik823]

How do you know that what Mason says is true?

[@noahgenatossio7166]

Good to see you posting again!

[@rtvitko]

I am very happy to see the topic of Zelena Ukraina raised. A very good description of Cossacks, as well.

[@christophermurphree2315]

A very Interesting topic, i greatly enjoy your factual and non biased commentary on these contested subjects. I thought it was worth bringing up that there is something off with the captions for this video. Anyway, thanks for the excellent video.

[@mik823]

How do you know that this is factual and non biased commentary on this contested subject?

[@dalesang]

So glad you are back and making these awesome videos!

[@johannes6382]

I think one big factor worth mentoning is that by the time of the migration many Ukrainians and Belarusians probably would have identified as Russian. I myself am German and naturaly compare it to how Swiss, Austrians, etc. would identify as German in American statistics. The development of the nation of Ukraine as a seperate identiy therefore didn't really affect them as they had no reason to view themselves as seperate. As mentioned I am German and don't have that much insight into east slavic identies. However what I can say for certain is that I am glad you're back Mason!

[@cSwDamian]

Russian identity is as old as Ukrainian. There were citizens of a particular place speaking a particular language. Language is a strong indicator of ethnicity or nationality. Ukrainian and Belorussian people were called Ruthenians thoughout most of the time. When Moskovits conquered enough territories to think of themselves as an empire, they created a notion of Russia derived from Rus (which they didn't have much to do).

[@cSwDamian]

@@brasscross5476 but they did commit ethnical and cultural purges and continue to do so nowadays My family has been purged. Rus Slavs? What in the world is that? How many centuries have passed since the Rus even existed? They didn't unite, they conquered multiple ethnicities most of which have nothing to do with Slavs.

[@davefreier7738]

It can be complicated. My family identifies as German, but emigrated to the United States from Ukraine as citizens of the Russian Empire.

[@user-dj7ju2ce7m]

They didn't, otherwise they wouldn't be trying to gain independence

[@cSwDamian]

@@brasscross5476 not as harshly? Only Holodomor killed 5 million people? Do you know anything more harsh?

[@ahoraya1047]

In England, the Franco-Normands were also assimilated, and so the Germans and French Hugenout by Afrikaners, or the Italians, French, Germans and Lebanese by Argentines

[@andriusgimbutas3723]

In case of Normans it was more so the opposite, seeing how much disproportionately(In terms of population) English is influenced by french

[@rama_lama_ding_dong]

thanks for the upload sir, hopefully you're feeling well

[@itsjeninMass]

You do such a good job with this channel! So fascinating and educational?

[@mik823]

How do you know that what massaman claims is true and correct?

[@invasive835]

Dude im so happy youre back

[@eolay4411]

Glad your back!

[@wolvenstar10]

I'm glad you are back...How do we get rid of the text block on the screen?

[@fatkiller1000]

Holy shit you're alive. God damn man don't just up and leave we all thought you got got.

[@windowsxpisloading]

Oh shoot Masaman is back! Dude it’s been like 3 years. Gonna watch this when I get home

[@maxwalker1159]

Good to see you back mate

[@theuniverse5173]

Is there any way I can find your maps and projects?

[@user-ri1ti6go7s]

Thank you... A fascinating subject and history I did not know about. What a history.... So many diverse people brought into the area and who came there. And a proposed 'green'. independent Ukraine long time ago. Amazing .

[@mik823]

How do you know that what massaman is saying is true and correct? Are you able to substantiate massaman's claim? If so then you are obliged to post your supporting evidence? Have you actually read the sources that massaman posted?

[@Janko630]

Excellent content!

[@MikeHaggarKJ]

This is a fantastic channel with great content, keep it up.

[@Edchalio]

Thanks bro!

[@UniquelyUnseen]

Glad to see you're back to making content! Could I ask what program or settings you used to make the text move in the way you did? I am finding myself struggling to get visuals for some projects due to the obscurity.. so rather than having one visual over a 10-20 minute period, it would be great to have a kind of "moving text" to keep people somewhat engaged.

[@michaelwittmann6328]

OMG thank you, I learned about green ukraine once but I never found anything on it untill now!!

[@InAeternumRomaMater]

There were many Romanian (vlach) cossacks as well

[@InAeternumRomaMater]

@@YWYW476 Maybe saying "many" is too much. But Ioan Potcoavă with the Slavicised name of Ivan Pidkova was a Cossack Edit: Almost forgot Grigore Lobodă

[@plewis1239]

Excellent content. Respect and thanks from 🇬🇧

[@jeffpitts2473]

He's back!!!

[@DreuSilva]

Holy crap you're alive 🤩

[@Jetjetson]

thanx for again another stellar presentation 🙏 nice to hear your great lecture style. so easy to follow. You’re The best 🏆

[@V_Strategist]

Greetings from Ukraine! Thank you very much for raising such an interesting and important topic for a wide world audience! Green Wedge may indeed have about 55% of the population of Ukrainian origin. For example, according to the 2021 census, more than 20% of the population "did not indicate their nationality" - most likely, these are Ukrainians who were not counted on purpose.

[@user-dw3kl5mh8n]

😂, а в 1989 при СССР Украинцев тоже всего пару %

[@just_a_turtle_chad]

Ukraine is Russian territory

[@rockyporterjr4215]

Not anymore

[@manekrit2417]

тому що тодi люди не дуже вважали себе якось той нацii як ми. Тому коли ми рахуемо сьогоднiшнiми категорiями вiдсотки людей кудись-то пропадають. А вони не знали хто такi Россiянами Українцями Белорусами. Мае бути вони себе вважали русами як в 14 столiтi.

[@jabrilbalakrishna]

There arr no significant genetic sifferences between the two. And considering that both ”nations” heavoly interbred throghout the entirety of their history the whole notion of calculating anything is preposterous. But your propaganda may tell you otherwise as does the lies of this video I guess.

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

Dude I somehow unsubscribed by accident, and you're one of my favorite channels. I'm so glad this showed up on my feed so I could resubscribe.

[@technobladeleakedclips1827]

KZbin unscubscribed you in a effort to silence those who talk about the white race

[@user-br9lf1yj9m]

Great video

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

I didn't know so many of the Slavs in the Far-East were Ukrainian - interesting!

[@Demographiaanthropology]

Really interesting video, I never really knew about this history before. Reminds me a lot of European colonisation of the Americas

[@AbdulHannanAbdulMatheen]

👏🙂 Very interesting

[@grantforester1864]

Now it makes sense why my Ukrainian and Belorussian pops take over the Far East when I play Vicky 2. Im guessing it happened unintentionally in my game tho

[@yur_io]

Hello from Kyiv, thanks for the video! There’s a sad soviet joke about a person inventing a shaving device that you put your head into and it shaves you. When asked about what about the fact people have different faces, he answered that it’s only before using the machine the first time…

[@BrittishWomenAreprostitutes]

🤩🤩🤩Hohol🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🐽🤭

[@oa1672]

Welcome back!

[@t905im7]

crazy to see man back from the grave

[@NorthPoleSun]

Greetings Masaman. Great video. Ukrainians and Belarusians were definitely Russified easily, especially considering that all three are quite similar anyways. You mention Manchus in this video. I think they are a very fascinating people and perhaps you should dedicate a video on them and how their own population has changed and how Manchuria as a whole changed.

[@ZhovtoBlakytniy]

The similarities are not exactly natural, lots of campaigns of russification took its toll and they are all still different. Look into it.

[@pavelbogachuk]

@@ZhovtoBlakytniy oink

[@manekrit2417]

@@ZhovtoBlakytniy я жив бiльше десяти рокiв iтам i там. Хоть вбий не скажу чим кацап вiд хохла відрізняється. Таке вiдчутя що тiльки мовою.

[@mik823]

@@ZhovtoBlakytniy look into what? Have done any research? If so can you post your data? What evidence do you have that Russians, Belarus and Ukrainians are quite different? I'm guessing you don't have any evidence because you are a liar just like massaman....

[@fabriciomarques8663]

​​@@pavelbogachuk two more weeks for the Soviet Union to come back sister!!! Paper bear

[@sparky6086]

Yul Brenner was from eastern Siberia.

[@jackwest7197]

😢

[@nicks2605]

ayo fix the subtitles (cc) other than that good video

[@Umar-oq3rp]

thank you for coming back 😍😍🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

[@tierka221]

Glad you're back. As I remember from the school they almost told us nothing about Green Ukraine, because it has never to become a state and the history of that time is more focused on the troubled times of post-WW1 madness happening in Ukraine. Russian Empire was very good at assimilation people by force and cultural oppressing. "Small Russian language" as they called Ukrainian was forbidden to be printed, and to get any good job in the city you had to speak Russian making it "the aristocratic one" in comparison to "rural" Ukrainian, thus we see that people in big cities bordering Russia mostly speak Russian. That changes of course when the so-called defense of the Russian-speaking population in the so-called "Special military operation" causes thousands of deaths and massive migration of that population. The Soviet Union despite starting from actively supporting conquered nations (I would remind everyone who doesn't know that RSFR de-facto took the Ukrainian People's Republic by force) came to more unhuman methods when to achieve fast industrialization the rural population was sucked dry, what causes the great famine known as Holodomor (claimed as myth by Russian, even so, I have seen and translated some handwritten memoirs of WW2 in which the storyteller faces a lot of consequences of that during the start of the war, wandering eastern Ukraine and not understanding why locals hated Soviets so much), also everyone who wasn't happy with methods of the Union was sent to the Far East or wherever. After WW2 everyone was so traumatized and all who were "collaborators" suppressed that no national movements were discussed and the situation for the language and culture was stagnating. My grandparents were born in the Kharkiv region. My mother was born in Kazakhstan. I was born back in Kharkiv, even though my grandparents who currently live in Russia consider themselves "Soviet" and our big family tree mostly living in Russia despite originating in Ukraine mostly consider themselves Russian. That is how ethnic assimilation goes. And of course, those who migrated to Ukraine to replace displaced Ukrainians are considered Russian by Russia. Everywhere is Russia. Thus we see how a sick dictator decides to expand his borders because people speak Russian here.

[@ilyatsukanov8707]

Russians don't deny that there was a famine in Ukraine in the 1930s. They deny that it was a deliberate famine meant to target the Ukrainians. Other parts of the USSR also suffered from this famine.

[@tierka221]

@@ilyatsukanov8707 true that other regions suffered but the reason why is it declared a targeted genocide is because it was forbidden to leave you place of living and considering Ukraine has the best soil in the world and always was a breadbusket of Europe, fed the half of the Russian Empire it is very questionable how millions died. I knew a person who lived during these times and he was the one and only rusophobe I've met before the invasion. I don't think living the whole life in Soviet Union washed his head with some kind of propaganda. Bad management + bad years for agriculture + meeting the plan prioritizing industrialization over rural stability and other measures that were taken to deny the Soviet Union itself had any impact on such femine make Ukrainians to call this a genocide.

[@abfcrj1]

@@tierka221 Did this man hated any Georgian or Jewish people?

[@tierka221]

@@abfcrj1 nah he hated only soviets and didn't like russians with emperial ambitions, he has been hoping all soviet monuments would be demolished, his ex-wife was of jewish origin for sure coz I remember being in the sinagogue the only time in my life with them for some reason I won't recall.

[@abfcrj1]

@@tierka221 I bet russians on a first place who thinks about Roman Empire.

[@Game_Hero]

The subtitles don't properly work

[@cirjeex6412]

Welcome Mason!

[@lishnyak1925]

Дуже дякую за контент! Для мене було неочікувано, що такий базований блогер як ви буде робити відео на цю тему.

[@rft9776]

8:28 "their eyes were too big" I see what you did there Masaman 😂

[@user-cl7pm7zm3x]

The main reason why there is so much uctainians on the far east exactly the same how colonisations of america has happenes whether by spanish or english - because colonisation of far east have been from odessa the closest port and a lot of people came from rural areas around odessa

[@stevens1041]

I met a friend that moved to Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (I probably spelled it wrong, sorry). It looks so cold there from their photos they showed me, even that is in the south part of Sakhalin.

[@dshbvhjbfhvjb]

nice subtitles

[@Player-re9mo]

Can you make a video on the Romanians living in Kazakhstan? They were deported there by the Soviet Union, but many retained their Romanian language and culture.

[@bigsarge2085]

Fascinating and tragic.

[@Atilla_Kaan]

Crimea is historically part of the Turks And Crimean Tatars 🇹🇷

[@danielforeroc]

​@@Atilla_Kaan They were slavers. Taurica was for millennia land of greek and iranian peoples.

[@danielforeroc]

@@jeweater420 Russia conquered Crimea to stop slave raiders that took hundreds of thousands, if not millions to the Ottoman Empire.

[@ahoraya1047]

If American states were like Russian federal subjects, the Navajo reserve would be an state like Buriatia or Altai or Shaka

[@ahoraya1047]

@@williamsharp2532 no, because they would have the same rights.

[@ahoraya1047]

@@williamsharp2532 reserves with privileges doesnt make sense in 2024. Just equal rights as any other American

[@Radonatorr]

@@ahoraya1047 Ah yes, "equal rights" in Russia. That's why ethnic minorities are disproportionally enlisted into the Russian military, depopulation entire Buryat villages, while barely ethnic Russian from Moscow or Petersburg has to worry about that.

[@viaceslavmikhailovich9825]

@@Radonatorr I wonder what could be a purpose of your lies. You are deceiving yourself with all those anti-Russian lies and then you are surprised why everything go not as you planned. Those Russian militaries who are fighting in Ukraine, all of them are volunteers.

[@ahoraya1047]

@@Radonatorr i think in Moscow there are people from all Russia, and from other countries. And for now, it is not compulsory recruitment

[@parllax]

Masaman the subtitle is broken FYI

[@davidjules6034]

OMG He came back!!!

[@happybeejv]

What is the name of that skinny part of the russian far east between the arctic sea and the sea of okhost that Kamchatka is sticking out of??

[@Hannibal-Barca]

Anapkan Isthmus

[@abrvalg321]

1:00 they were a military estate. Who got exempt from taxes in exchange for settling in border regions. Some were recruited into the army.

[@MoonMoney97]

WELCOM BACK!!!🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉

[@Bdog40]

This is a strange video. You make a great deal out of this "genetics" first and for most, there is absolutely no way you could tell the difference Russian Belarusian and Ukrainian by their genetics. Trying to prove a good agenda or not this is not how you show light on disappearing Ukrainian culture and language in Russia.

[@boberu4755]

Of course you can identify them by genetics.

[@Bdog40]

@@boberu4755 with all do respect, no you cant. or at least theres no widly accenpted sicentific researched proving such. the only differences that can be widly accepted is a regional one. for example the belarussian being more in line with baltic people of lithuania, while ukraine as a whole was a melting pot of poles lithuanians rus and crimean tartars. russians on the other hand will have more genetic inflience of finno ugric poeple inhabiting the rus land since novgorod times.

[@boberu4755]

I can tell difference just by looking at the face. Russians almost unversally have finno-ugric or some asiatic admixture. There are some "ukrainians" that look like turks but they are far in between.Russians in themsrlves are very diverse, of course some subpopulation can be identical with Ukrainians, or be in fact assimilated Ukrainians. @@Bdog40

[@bsod111]

this video is strange(and insanely biased) in a way, but not really when it comes to genetics. you can even tell differences in genetics(and in appearance) among ethnic russians or ethnic ukrainians in regions that they inhabit. russians from Novgorod will be slightly different from russians from Voronezh. ukrainians from Mykolayiv will be slightly different from ukrainians from Lviv. that is an ordinary thing for european ethnicities. even by appearance you probably can differ ukrainian from belarusian or russian since ukrainians on average are darker. in central russia, where i am from, brown eyes are basically an exotic thing among indegionus russian population, but brown eyes are way more common in ukraine

[@technobladeleakedclips1827]

Ukraine is not a real country, does not exist in genetics language or culture, only thing seperating the so called ukrainians from Russians is the zekensy military dictatorship

[@ahoraya1047]

It has been a successful Colonización

[@JameBlack]

я знав шо він за нас!

[@rdallas81]

Some of US in the US are for you also.

[@jaedenb3795]

Hello i am new from your channel, that video was amazing! I was suggesting you if you could make a video about a Jewish state in Siberia

[@rdallas81]

Yes. Magadan.

[@Elsneakakaze]

"Russian far east" its literally west of 90% of the country.

[@DeVolksrepubliek]

@@Atilla__OguzHalf lmao 😂

[@Anon-nv7bp]

???

[@RK-cj4oc]

What?

[@Dixie_N0rmis]

Would love a new/updated video about early Appalachian settlers, specifically those in eastern Kentucky. Maybe a video following Daniel Boone that highlights his importance in leading Americans west. Would be interesting to see exactly which native American groups he would have been in contact with etc.

[@stefanodadamo6809]

The more you try to neatly distinguish Ukrainians (apart those from Galicia or Transcarpathia) and Russians (AND Cossacks!), the more you realize how utterly enmeshed their identities and stories were. This war is a fratricidal tragedy if ever there was one. Identity fades away quickly in a context where the vehicular language is only slightly different from your own. See Germans in the US - and they too ended up suffering a little remembered but shameful explosion of bigotry back in 1917-8. A few ladies from the Russian Far East I happen to "know" on social media have clearly Ukrainian surnames, as so many people around them, but speak Russian.

[@5041242]

The Ukrainian language is indecent, it is the language of the cattle (rednecks)

[@boredspector]

Another amazing video

[@inferno0020]

Have you done one for Northeast Asia's Tungusic people (specifically, the Jurchens)? It is a semi-controversial subject in a part of the Sinosphere.

[@stephenbrand5661]

So much of Russia's geography just seems like the leftover lands in Eurasia that nobody else wanted, and that's especially true the further east you look. The Siberian High makes that part of the world the pole of cold in the northern hemisphere, and explains why places well within the tropics like Hong Kong and Hanoi can still experience winter frosts. It says a lot that the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans didn't establish more of a presence up there, but that extreme cold combined with hellish mosquitoes and other biting insects during the short warm times just makes it barely habitable for people.

[@DrMrPersonGuy]

Convenient excuse, but no, plenty of people wanted the territories. Japan can't even get back its northern islands from russia.

[@kv4648]

Japan didn't want a two front war and the IJN won. China was having civil wars and was largely isolationist

[@DrMrPersonGuy]

@kv4648 very selective moments. Overall there were many conflicts at the borders, and still many disputes with russia today.

[@backyardsounds]

In the first b/w image of the Cossacks, the guy on the bottom far left looks like President Putin with a mustache, and the bottom far right looks like Val Kilmer playing Doc Holiday in "Tombstone".

[@jeanssold2131]

grew up there, good think the far east didnt separate in 1917. Given very low Slavic population at the time its identity would dissapear pretty fast. also, the border between "ethnic" Ukranians and "ethnic" Russians was very blurred at that time period so it made sense for the census to count language, as it was pretty much the only thing that could neatly separate the two groups

[@technobladeleakedclips1827]

There was no ukraine at all until 20 years after this happened, it wasnt "blurred" they were just always Russians

[@mattsreptileroom]

All f*** massaman is back with a vengeance. I remember back when your videos had hardly any views man, you're the best!!!

[@Miroslaw-rs8ip]

I visited the Amur region of Russia back in the mid nineties and was pleasantly surprised to see streets named after Ukrainian people of significance and many descendants of those Ukrainians who settled here however many were already Russified and didn’t speak Ukrainian but knew that they had Ukrainian parents or grandparents.

[@fionbarrons9556]

I am from the Far East and lived with a lot of Ukraine people. But we didn't pay attention to what's the nationality. Our street is named with Ukraine name. Happy life, very good memories, a lot of fun.

[@JC-ji1hp]

Would love to see a video mentioning the sikhirtya thought to be mythical but are now being recognized as having settlements there

[@gort2279]

Do you just have a whole backlog you’ve produced this last year in absence

[@eisernfront8549]

Anyone can be a Cossacks as long they prove their fighting prowess? Sounds like Mandalorians

[@icostaticrebound6007]

RETURN OF THE KING

[@rdallas81]

Yes! YES! Bible says Israel would be brought back from the nations God scattered them to- And an increase in knowledge. Wars and rumors of wars and nation rising against nation and kingdom against kingdom and plagues pestilences and famine and earthquakes in diverse places. That, when you see these things to "Look up, for your redemption draws close"

[@FilAnd01]

7:39 that is a majority of Ukrainians in the far east, to be clear. The vast majority of Ukrainians in what is now Ukraine spoke Ukrainian as their native language, as well as in Kuban and the Don. The isolated Ukrainian groups like green Ukraine and grey Ukraine adopted Russian to a large extent, but this was not the case in the entirety of the Russian empire, and especially not in the contiguous Ukrainian culture region. Also when you said the Russian government is “importing” Ukrainians to the far east that is a very weird way of putting it. They’re deporting people, most often involuntarily, from their homes in occupied ukraine, and put them as far away as possible and force them to work and keep them under surveillance and they’re not free to move around as they wish. I’ve written papers about this and have a degree in Ukrainian history, so I kinda know what I’m talking about to some extent.

[@AquariumRuss]

look. I am Russian. from the Trans-Baikal Russians who settled the Far East. beat, of my paternal (Far Eastern) relatives, there is one family - Ukrainians. These are my cousins and I am the great-nephew of their Ukrainian grandfather, who was born in Ukraine and moved as a teenager with his parents to the Far East in the 30s. Are you saying that they were expelled and held by force?

[@user-ln6bn7jr3w]

Man many Ukranians are complicit in Russian imperialism as they were consifered the same people by the government

[@user-tz6vf8to5f]

in the Far East, 15 hectares of land were given free of charge for each male migrant, 1 tithe of land cost 3 rubles, and as it was already mentioned, Ukraine was the most densely populated area of Russia, where land was insufficient and expensive. So naturally, people moved voluntarily for a larger allotment and lack of competition for land.

[@FilAnd01]

@@user-tz6vf8to5f both are true at the same time. Some people moved voluntarily, but many were also forced. It’s not like your average Ukrainian peasant could afford their own land back then even if it was cheap after all

[@AquariumRuss]

@@FilAnd01 During the entire period of Soviet power, the resettlement program was in effect. There were a lot of goodies in this program. demobilized soldiers drafted from disadvantaged villages in the European part of the USSR and who served in the Far East were particularly good at this program. salaries differed at least twice (and this is without taking into account the "northern allowances"), apartments were given much faster and obviously large, residents of the Far East received free trips to Abkhazia and Crimea from the trade union three times more often than residents of the European part of the USSR. many Ukrainian conscripts believed that crucian carp is a fish! and a bullhead sucks! in the Far East, they suddenly found out that halibut and omul are fish! and pink salmon sucks! caviar, crabs, scallops... and all this is in buckets, not tiny jars on big holidays... and yes! The entire Far East is a continuous Border Zone, where it is strictly FORBIDDEN for former exiles and former convicts to settle.

[@Zayac_vlc]

On the contrary, soviets promoted mild ukrainization in Far East in 30-s with printing books, newspapers in ukr language, forcing its study in schools. But of course it wasn't inflicted as heavy as in Novorossia.

[@megalodon3655]

Maybe talk about how the Tatar Muslims survived considering that during Mongol rule they were the majority and then nearly got wiped out or the Muslim states of the Russian empire or maybe Russian and Ukrainian settlements in Siberia or or the natives of Siberia and I know I am a bit late but welcome back and keep up the great work mansaman.

[@zeged]

Can you make a video if East Africans are mixed or have eurasian admixture?

[@just_a_turtle_chad]

So by Russian logic, Ukraine can hold a referendum to anex green Ukraine as it was once in a union with Ukraine and has ethnic Ukrainians.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

based on Russian logic you have to border. this is the reason why Tranestria of Moldova is not included in Russia

[@jared3624]

Kaliningrad is Russian and does not border but almost

[@lonerider5933]

Ukrainians in Russia don't have problems with Russians. In fact up until recently before 2014 most Ukrainians considered Russians a brother nation and half of them as the same people. In fact I find it weird that few people mention that during the Euromaidan only half wanted to be integrated into the EU and the option to join the Custom's Union was more popular among the people of Ukraine in 2013. Ultranationalist radicals were highly involved in the Euromaidan and many Ukrainians left their country because of US meddling in Ukraine

[@itsorganic7739]

The conflict in ukraine resembles much more closely a civil war for anyone who is familiar with the situation on the ground and pretenses that led up to it from 2014. It has since devolved into a proxy conflict between Russia and the West

[@NwoDispatcher]

​@@lonerider5933Jewish, you mean

[@asabovesobelow8902]

Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@BrittishWomenAreprostitutes]

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