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  I'm shocked I don't see any conservatives talking about his clothing. 
  Because that is the most important thing on their mind for whatever reason
context: Putin is a fucking psychopath to strike civilians on Christmas. Russia must pay a hard price for this useless war. >
  
  Agree with the sentiment, but for the majority of ukraine and russia its not christmas since they're orthodox. That would be the 7th of january >
  
  There is plenty of Catholics in west part and a lot of Evangelicals all over. >
  
  Didn't say they didn't exist but as the article points out they are a minority. And i personally only know ukrainians that celebrate orthodox christmas ( from Lviv or Odessa) >
  
  Interestingly, the population of Kherson was around 30% Jewish in 1900, but only 6% in 1959 when the last Synagogue was forcibly closed by Soviet authorities and less than 0.5% today. >
  
  Well, my grand parents generation (i'm german) and Stalin were very antisemitic. Poland had a very similar development ending in the mass emigration of polish jews in the 60s >
  
  Off topic, but why is the eastern bank of the river called the left bank? >
  
  It's determined by the direction the water flows. If you are looking downstream in this case, as it flows towards the Black Sea, the left bank is east. >
  
  Oh duh >
  
  I don’t think orthodox has anything to do w how vile Putin is- he would always do the most vile, arrogant thing possible- his emotional development is digressive