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Originally Posted by svin
I fail to understand why some ethnic Russians want so desperately some additional square kilometers of land when the nation is dying. This is really impossible to understand. I hope nationalist feelings will grow, not "patriotic". To be a patriot of modern Russia equals to be anti-Russian in ethnic sense, actually, because current Russian constitution even doesn't recognize Russians as a nation.
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Bravo! Exactly my thoughts, Svin. To call oneself a patriot of Russia these days equals to nothing, if not worse. You might as well be anti-Russian. It's different, of course, in little mono-ethnic states.
In Russia nation should go first and then everything else. Frankly, I tend to view vast Russian territory more like a burden to Russian people, than anything else. It's always dragging national self-consciousness down.