Russian attitudes to Ukraine’s desire for freedom in the past century resemble Russian attitudes to Poland’s desire for freedom in the 1800s. “Varsovia delenda est,” Pushkin wrote. Both he and Lermontov passionately supported the special operation to crush the Polish uprising.
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