Originally Posted by Karel
You need not explain how painful was the dividing of USSR for milions of people.
Are you serious?
I don't think it was painful for Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
and many others, who regained freedom and independence
after decades of Russian suppression and occupation.
Maybe some of the people in Ukraine, especially Kiev, Eastern Ukraine,
think in a different way, but Western Ukraine felt liberated.
But you are right, for many Russians it was a disaster.
But I would suggest, we leave the politics out.
This is aviation forum.