Soooo, the kids have to die because their grandparents were Soviet and would have starved under hyperinflation had they not been amazing farmers? Ukraine used to have to steal gas out of the pipeline to keep everyone from freezing to death back then. So did Belarus. Why do you think that economic and cultural independence is a simple thing? That doesn't take into account KGB meddling. Look at what's going on in the US. That's their day to day