U aren't kind, was in a hurry.... Alright here is what I think you may want to keep in mind, of the Post article as I said earlier think it is a pretty good piece given u forget these lines "Ukraine's ethno-linguistic political division is sort of like the United States' "red America" and "blue America" divide, but in many ways much deeper -- imagine if red and blue America literally spoke different languages. The current political conflict, which at its most basic level is over whether the country will lean toward Europe or toward Russia, is like the Ukrainian equivalent of gun control, abortion and same-sex marriage all rolled into one." It is possible to use the comparison with the red and blue America given u go back in time to the Gettysburg address and refer to the that sort of divide very little talked about in Ukraine but present in a lot of minds and the article doesn't mention the once moral divide that has allowed the cultural divide to deepen feeding overtime resentment. And to understand it you have to go back to the aftermath of WW2, Yalta and the direct consequences of Russia's victory over Nazi Germany  in Ukraine and the Baltics where on a much smaller scale but with some very similar root cause Lettonie saw the Russian minority whether ethnic or just speaking in dear trouble at some point. A situation fed by decades of humiliation real or just felt by the local population from the Russian communities in these areas after the type of relations they entertained with the nazi regime. As surprising as it is but U can feel it in a Yanukov late statement referring to the nazi parliament speaking of actual Ukraine's and across the border President Putin made a reference to a ideology like pogrom speaking of Maiden. That's why I believe that to fully understand the deep divide u can't avoid to go back in time and understand the role the Russian communities played in these regions in the immediate aftermaths of WW2 and how this role has influences and fed today's resentment on both sides. Do u get what I mean?