Hello everyone, xiao yu is here again!
We have done a video of the prevalence of surrogacy in Ukraine before, and today we will pick up the little entanglement between Ukraine and Russia.
First, let's talk about the thousand-year-old historical origin of "love and hate" between Ukraine and Russia. These two countries are in the same vein, both are historical guthras, and the original prototypes are kievan rus'and the duchy of Moscow.
In the 9th century AD, Kievan Rus rose rapidly, not only became one of the earliest ancient civilizations on the plains of Eastern Europe, but also reached a population of more than 5 million during the reign of Grand Duke Vladimir and his son Yaroslav, and the land area was unprecedentedly vast, once becoming the largest country in Europe at that time, and the city of Kiev was also known as the "Imperial City on the Dnieper River".
In addition, the incomparably prosperous politics, culture and economy of Kievan Rus also laid the foundation for the common culture of Russia and Ukraine. Most notably, Vladimir married Princess Anna of the Byzantine Empire, and since then successive tsars have considered themselves heirs of Byzantine culture, and today's Russian coat of arms has a double-headed eagle symbolizing Byzantine culture.
Unfortunately, after the father and son of Vladimir, Kievan Rus seemed to have been drained of luck, gradually decayed and declined, and split into 12 small countries, each governing and attacking each other, the Muscovite Principality was one of them, just when everyone was fighting in the nest and tearing you to death, it was completely destroyed by the Mongol army, and became a subordinate vassal state of the people, and since then the Guthra race has been completely divided.
Fortunately, in 1480, the belligerent muscovite principality of Muscovite drove out the Mongols to recover the land, and in 1547, Ivan IV was crowned Tsar, and the Muscovite principality was magnificently transformed into Tsarist Russia.
Kievan Rus' indisputably became a soft-footed shrimp, further divided by other countries, the western part was occupied by the Polish doves, and the eastern region was occupied by the Mongols for a long time, evolving cossacks.
This long-term cultural isolation has made the East and west look down on each other, the Eastern Cossacks are closer to Russia, and the West considers itself orthodox, rejecting Russia at the same time, and by the way, it is disgusted with Eastern Ukraine, and the pattern of East-West discord in Ukraine has been established.
While Tsarist Russia was thriving, the big brother of Ukraine became a nation without its own state – commonly known as the International Black Household, and the land was included in the Territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland.
However, how to say that the DNA of Tsarist Russia and Ukraine is in their own vein, who has not yet been bloody, in 1648, the Ukrainian people who had been oppressed for nearly a hundred years simply under the leadership of Khmelnytsky simply unveiled an uprising, trying to submit to Tsarist Russia in exchange for Tsarist aid.
Unfortunately, the Tsarist Russia did not want to wade into this muddy water, and in desperation, the Ukrainian rebel army could only rely on itself and strengthen itself.
However, to everyone's surprise, this cargo actually relied on military strategy twice to defeat the European military power Poland at that time in the case of isolation and helplessness, but it was really a pot on the ass - there was a certain level.
Unfortunately, in the defense of Vinnytsia, the Crimean Khanate, which was bribed by Poland, raided Ukraine from behind, leaving it in a dilemma of being attacked from the belly and back, and was forced to ask the Tsar for help again.
This time, Ukraine's request for help was opportune, when the negotiations between Tsarist Russia and Poland were broken down because of territorial issues, and relations fell to a freezing point, and they simply fished out a Handful of Ukraine struggling to survive in the quagmire.
In March 1654, a Ukrainian delegation went to Moscow to meet the Tsar and signed the Treaty of March, from which Ukraine was granted a high degree of autonomy and formally allied with Tsarist Russia, and eastern Ukraine was incorporated into the rising Tsarist Russia.
This move undoubtedly stepped on the tail of Poland, and the two sides were splashed with fire for a while, and there was a brief and fierce "friendly exchange", and there was no doubt that the result was the defeat of Poland.
Poland, which had begun to decline at that time, was bound to be unable to resist the ferocious attack of the Russian army, so in the 18th century, the whole of Ukraine was unsurprisingly acquired by Tsarist Russia.
However, for Ukraine, it was just out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's den, and the tsar, who did not speak of martial virtue, launched a northern war in order to compete with Sweden for the Baltic Sea.
War is not a big deal, but what is lacking in virtue is that during the war, Peter the Great not only forcibly abolished the right to local autonomy in Ukraine on the grounds of war, but also recruited a large number of Cossacks to the front as cannon fodder.
Dissatisfied with the Tsar's behavior, the Ukrainian leader tried to secretly ally with Sweden and regain national freedom, but he did not expect to die before he could succeed, and the Tsar, who heard the news, was furious and directly sent his army to wash the Cossack camp in blood, which was the Ukrainian king who swallowed firecrackers - holding a fire in his stomach, and since then the first bloody deep vengeance has been added between the two.
Ukraine, whose dream of independence was shattered, became the "contrarian son" who lacked discipline in the eyes of Peter the Great, so he began to fully implement Russified colonialism in Ukraine, reconstructing the Ukrainian social structure according to Russia's social model, values, and language and culture.
The establishment of Russian as the official language, the Ukrainian language has been relegated to the ranks of "hillbilly", the publication of Ukrainian literary books and textbooks has been banned, and the spiritual slavery manipulated, which has been imposed by Tsarist Russia for more than 200 years, which is one of the reasons why the vast majority of Ukrainians are still more proficient in Russian than their mother tongue.
In 1917, when the February Revolution brought Tsarist Russia to the ground, Ukraine boarded German thieves' ships in exchange for 450,000 German troops intervening to resist the erosion of soviet armed forces at the expense of food and agricultural and sideline products.
In the end, the army was borrowed, but the dream of independence was still an empty talk, and the Germans quickly overthrew their central government when they entered the door of Ukraine, and fostered a pro-German puppet government.
For the next 6 years, Ukraine became a bone in the dog's mouth, tossing and turning between Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union, and as a result, Western Ukraine was annexed by Polish Germany.
In 1922, Ukraine, as one of the first four member states, joined the nascent Soviet Union, and with the help of the Soviet government, Ukraine, with the help of the Soviet government, finally seized the western Ukrainian region by force in 1939 and completely completed the great unification.
However, do you think that Ukraine has finally turned into serfs and singing, and can live a plain and happy little life?
During the Soviet period, there was a huge "grain war" between Ukrainian peasants and Stalin.
At that time, in order to promote the rapid development of heavy industry, Stalin adopted a policy of using peasants to raise workers, requiring the peasants to leave only rations and hand over all the rest of the grain, which not only seriously dampened the enthusiasm of the peasants to carry out agriculture, but also triggered a fierce resistance of the Ukrainian peasants in the "granary of Europe", who preferred to burn the granary rather than hand over the grain to Stalin.
However, this kind of behavior is tantamount to hitting a pebble, and the powerful Stalin exiled a large number of peasants, not to mention, confiscated all the production materials and all the grain in Ukraine, including agricultural tools and grain seeds, and at the same time, blocked the grain transportation channels and completely imprisoned the Ukrainians.
There was a direct outbreak of severe famine in the Ukrainian region without food and the tools to grow food, and a large number of Ukrainians called it every day and the earth, which was a tragic end, and the blood feud between Ukraine and Russia was added.
It is no wonder that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine, as the second largest subject, turned around and threw itself into the arms of Western capitalist countries without hesitation.
However, although it is understandable that Ukraine is impatient to break away from the control of the Soviet Union, it is obvious that this time Ukraine's choice directly ruined its own great future.
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine produced 25% of grain and 40% of steel with 2.7% of the total land area of the Soviet Union, becoming one of the centers of gravity of industry and agriculture in the whole Soviet Union, but after Ukraine's independence, the economy directly declined, showing a negative growth trend, and soon became the tail of the crane in the global economic development!
Ukraine fell into such a situation, in addition to its own work, it can be said that Russia is indispensable, after the collapse of the Soviet Union Russia inherited most of the inheritance, including rich gold, diamonds, foreign exchange reserves, but also a lot of national debt.
And Ukraine wants to share the money but does not want to bear the debt, a rush Russia simply kicked Ukraine out of the game field, the two signed the "zero point plan", Ukraine can not share the inheritance, and do not have to pay off the debt.
So at that time, Ukraine was also the palace of Yingzheng - Huang arrived home, there was no penny in hand, the old industrial equipment and the energy and raw material processes that were harmful to the ecological environment were all available, but unfortunately, these industrial heritages urgently needed to be transformed to realize the modernization of the production process, which was nothing more than wishful thinking for Ukraine, which was clean and clean.
The only military industry that seems to be of some use has become a hot potato in the hands of Ukraine, which cannot be put down or taken. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited 176 intercontinental missiles, 42 strategic bombers and hundreds of tactical nuclear weapons on its territory, becoming the third largest nuclear power after the United States and Russia.
However, this rich nuclear heritage in Ukraine, which is in ruins and awaiting rejuvenation, is tantamount to a child holding gold in the downtown, it is impossible not to be robbed, everyone says that Ukraine is lame by the old United States, only to abolish its nuclear forces, but the truth is that Ukraine has a pit in its brain, and has it been swept away by the United States?
In fact, combined with the domestic and foreign environment that Ukraine was in at that time, Xiao Yu believed that Ukraine's self-palace behavior was completely forced, and if it did not do so, it would become a lamb on the board to be slaughtered.
In fact, at that time, Ukraine did not think of using nuclear weapons as a weight to coerce the United States to fund, because at that time, the old United States' assistance to Russia was far more than its assistance to Ukraine, but such an approach was exchanged for the United States and Russia joining hands to pressure it.
The reason why the United States has been slow to develop relations with Ukraine, in the final analysis, is the problem is Ukraine's nuclear forces, the United States is afraid of one more nuclear opponent in Europe, idle nothing to cultivate a threat to fill in.
And Russia is so impatient, out of concern about the 670 airborne cruise nuclear warheads controlled by the Ukrainian army, although the launch technology and password are in Russia's hands, Ukraine, which has a lot of nuclear science, is not impossible to break through technical barriers in a year or two, and there is even a chance of re-setting the launcher program and shelling Russia.
Speaking of which, are you thinking that if Ukraine is a little tougher, maybe it will be able to keep the clouds open and see the moon, but the problem is that it can't hold back.
Nuclear weapons make the United States and Russia jealous, but the maintenance, maintenance and management of the 176 strategic missiles and 1500 nuclear warheads is a huge challenge for Ukraine, both technically and economically.
Ukraine's own economy is down, the nuclear industry is basically paralyzed, Russia does not provide parts, Ukraine's nuclear weapons want to maintain a long-term level of combat readiness is simply nonsense, and there is no tens of billions of dollars of spare money to establish a complete scientific research and production system, not to mention, aging nuclear weapons can not be dismantled by Ukraine's own strength alone.
Therefore, Ukraine itself does not have the diamond at all, can not do this porcelain work, in addition to the United States and Russia is still pinching its economic lifeline. Russia is pressing Ukraine to repay its huge debts to Russia.
On the other hand, pinching the supply chain of oil and gas, you know, 80% of Ukraine's energy is supplied by Russia, if it really forces the old Russia, it stops supplying energy, and Ukraine's industry and transportation are paralyzed.
The United States is also watching from the sidelines, simply threatening Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons and implement international treaties by freezing economic relief. This account, Ukraine is also calculated and calculated, do not hand over who knows whether the United States and Russia will jump the wall, directly give it a pot, several times weigh the pros and cons, Ukraine proposed that as long as the United States and Russia provide security guarantees and economic compensation, it will obediently surrender and offer nuclear weapons with both hands.
As a result, the United States decided to provide Ukraine with $175 million in compensation and $155 million in economic aid, and the proceeds from the dismantling of the nuclear warheads by Russia and the sale to the United States from the dismantling of the nuclear warheads were shared by the four nuclear states of the CIS.
Speaking of this, I think you can also understand, in fact, this Ukraine is not drilling money in the eyes, that little favor will let it give up its nuclear rights, but the country is light, not good to receive, in the end I am afraid that there will be no good fruit. It seems that there is a lost digression, saying that the Ukrainian-Russian issue has suddenly been involved in Ukraine's self-abolition of nuclear weapons, and we are back to the main topic.
In addition to the blood feud between Ukraine and Russia during the Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, there are actually deep grievances brought about by modern land disputes, the first of which is the Crimean Peninsula.
This land was assigned to the jurisdiction of Ukraine in 1954, but the control has been in the hands of Russia, with the support of Russia, Crimea simply held an independence referendum in 2014 and joined Russia as the Crimean Federal District.
In addition, Russia's double-standard behavior also makes Ukraine intolerable, Russia's energy output to go through the Ukrainian pipeline, but this goods is good, the supply price of European countries continues to rise, but the toll to Ukraine is always the same, a good image of an iron rooster.
All in all, the contradiction between Ukraine and Russia is not a day and a half, and it is impossible to reconcile for a while and a half, but Ukraine wants to completely rely on the support of the West and promote its own development is difficult to go to the sky, after all, it is difficult to rely on mountains and mountains, relying on pigs and pigs to run.
It is also quite regrettable that a large country that once played an important role in the whole of Europe has fallen to this step, and I hope that it can recognize the reality as soon as possible and find a development path that suits the national conditions!