[quote=idlehands]
Then you ARE talking about ethnic Russians who are born on Ukrainian soil. I don't know if it is the same there, if someone is born there they are a citizen automatically, but obviously these people have voting rights in the Ukraine. They are citizens of that country and you would just round them up and ship them off to Russia despite the fact that the Ukraine is their home.That's a completely rediculous and far fetched idea, not to mention inhumane. As you say, there is an older population of ethnic Ukrainians as well as Russians voting for a Russian friendly government. They do this because they remember the slightly better days under the Soviet regime. While the younger generation has a more Western outlook thanks to the ability to access information that their parents and grandparents never had. The youth has every right to protest, they're citizens, hell I support their cause. But saying to get rid of whole population of people because they're not playing right is just silly and dangerous.
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Once again, for maybe the fourth or fifth time now: I don't think all Russians, in the sense of having Russian background or speaking Russian, should be removed from Ukraine. Those who stubbornly persist to only be Russian and wish to remain in their commieblock in Ukraine instead of moving to an identical commieblock a little bit to the east SHOULD, however, leave. Preferably voluntarily. The only reason something like a deportation would ever be necessary is if they refuse to leave, which the more than twenty years since the break-up of the Soviet Union and the continued existence of massive Russian minorities in the Baltics and Ukraine, as well as the continued existence and popularity of pro-Kremlin parties in the aforementioned countries would seem to infer.

Stated simply: Russians outside of Russia want Russia to come to them. Non-Russians in those same countries want the Russians in their country to go to Russia. I would favour the opinions of Estonians in Estonia, Latvians in Latvia, Lithuanians in Lithuania and Ukrainians in Ukraine over the opinion of Russians in those four countries.