[Mikeb85]

> I don't think that's for either of us to declare.

Were the same people then? Historically there were few differences.

> You sound like you have much less than that in you.

Ethnically? Mother is 100% Ukrainian.

> I don't think Slavic culture – if there is, indeed, such a thing – defines itself with itself. It can't be its own description, see?

Historically, Slavs are defined by language and culture. Kind of like various Celtic groups. Just the way archaeologists and historians group them.

> Aside from that... Don't you think there's this whole new massive issue of nationality that defines a people?

Of course nationality matters now and to the future of a country. It's all that really matters. But people shouldn't try to rewrite history.