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>>5047
Bavarians likely wouldn't care culturally if they were a part of Germany or Austria, only who taxed them higher. That scenario could've happened with East Germany, some boomers there lament the amount of money spent on getting them up to snuff with the same infrastructure and say they should've stayed sovereign or be given to Poland.

Jumping some points, I don't believe that Ukrainians shared the exact same culture and spoke just a dialect of Russian that transmorphed into a different language over time by nefarious means or "outsiders" trying to break up the country. I don't know the history of the countries very well but as the way culture evolves:
>capitals change location
>some can't control outer regions due to whatever circumstances pertaining to war or logistics
>new values and tongues arise from it not to mention if there was a regional culture already or if a cultural clash (rape and pillage) occurred
>borders change as do the philosophy and epoch of era
>new culture loses degrees of relation to the main culture, they are now separate

I highly doubt that all these Cossack hosts got along and were related to each other by the virtue of being Cossacks and Orthodox or held any loyalty to whoever ruled the realm they lived in and each other. There's also the claim that Ukraine was fake because it was never a country to begin with like a culture is invalidated by lacking sovereignty, and after WW1 ended they tried to. Of course Ukrainians are not as dissimilar as they say nor are Russians as close as they say, they are brotherly peoples no matter what even if they hate each other.