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					Originally Posted by Chris  Because it can be used to promote the idea that Ukrainians and Russians are basically the same people, which is the philosophical justification for the war in Russia, regardless of whatever Russian propaganda you might have swallowed about them wanting to take on Nato. | 
	
 It seems somewhat far fetched to suggest that Russians sit watching television and think that every time a Russian shakes hands in an essentially mandatory scenario that the other nationality or ethnicity is somehow Russia aligned.
The suggestion that it’s to ostracise or demonise Russian people at an individual level is much, much more credible.