I think both Russia and Ukraine share the experience of never really having been nation-states. They both alternated between being regions of an empire and semi-anarchy.
I have friends who went through the 90s in both, and I think we're very forgetful in the West about how total that collapse was. There wasn't any model of common knowledge for them to snap back to :/
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