For English speakers. Ukrainians as Russians in the USSR - 2
When Ukrainians move upward, by becoming technicians, scientists, or the like, they become (at least linguistically) Russified and mobile in the entire USSR. Once they leave Ukraine, regardless of their subjective atti¬tudes, they function as Russians (Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union (Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2000), 73)