Soviet Russia Forced Their Language on Ukrainians for Decades Thus Putin’s Line About Russian Speakers There Spurious

The people of Ukraine had been speaking the Ukrainian language for a thousand years until the Soviet Russians forced the Russian language upon them, so Putin’s line that Russian-speaking Ukrainians are Russians of Russia is certainly ridiculous, Ukraine a nation every bit as much as Russia since the Rus who were Vikings from Scandinavia had come down the Dnieper and Dneister rivers in the 9th century.