Ukrainian restaurant "an insult for every Jew"

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SixtusVIth
Seems like a power tactic, pretending to be part of the dominant ingroup when dealing with other outgroups.
Trajan

What the fuck do Ukrainians have to be nationalistic about? Their country is the Slav equivalent of Kansas and they're so desperate for cultural heroes that they've started to reclaim Gogol as Ukrainian -- simply because he was born there. There's no need for it to be a separate country. The same goes for Belarus and most of the ex-Soviet states.

Trajan
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/galloping-anachronism/
Cadavre Exquis
The only discernible aspect of Gogol's work as 'Ukrainian' is captured in his earlier works, but these are really peasant tales rather than Ukrainian stories. Taras Bulba is an exception, but again it resonates more with the ethos and character of Cossack life on the plain than anything particularly Ukrainian.

His greatest works, however, are Russian through and through.
Stars Down To Earth
I haven't read Taras Bulba , although I watched the film (a shitty substitute, I know). I agree, its story of Cossack plainsmen doesn't exactly make the audience think of Western Ukraine.

I'm completely unfamiliar with Polish and Ukrainian literature, though. I'm a fan of German literature and philosophy, but eastwards (Russia excepted) is a totally uncharted area for me. Between the Germans and Dostoyevsky, it's all a blank space.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
It's pretty simple. They aren't Russians and they aren't Poles. They may be poor but only some socal brat with a lesbo mother would be so materialistic.

Love of nation is something you wasps cannot grasp.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
That is Western Ukraine. They are Cossacks who go to the Polish academy in Kyiv and are from the Zaporozhianm host. It can't get any more Ukrainian.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
But the Cossacks of the steppes are the integral to the very origin of Ukrainian identity.
Stars Down To Earth

Also, is the spelling "Kiev" or "Kyiv"? I've seen both, not sure which is right.

Niccolo and Donkey
Kyiv is the Ukrainian spelling, adopted since independence. Kiev is the traditional spelling.

Parallels include L'viv/L'vov, Kharkiv/Kharkov and Ivano-Frankivsk/Ivano-Frankovsk.