The historical origin of the Russian-Ukrainian question

Some people say that Ukraine and Russia are not all Slavs? They are all Orthodox Christians, what are they doing, fighting every day to fight.

For the country of Ukraine, we seem to be both familiar and unfamiliar. He was originally one of the three main countries of the Soviet Union, Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. So every time there was something about the Soviet Union, something about Russia, Ukraine was brought with it. In the past two years, the news has often mentioned Ukraine, because Russia and the West are fighting for him, but they have not fought for it, but Ukraine has been disturbed first.

Now Ukraine is roughly like this, the crimea referendum in the south has been occupied by Russia, and the two regions of Doneysk and Luhansk, which border Russia in the east, have also made independence with the support of Russia in previous years, established themselves, and fought a civil war with the central government for several years. At present, in addition to nominally being under the central control, it is actually a system of its own. When Ukraine was not independent, both the Tsarist era and the Soviet era attached great importance to Ukraine. The environment is really good, I want to develop agriculture. Two-thirds of Ukraine's land area is black, accounting for a quarter of the world's total black soil. If you want to develop industry, there are more than eighty kinds of minerals available for mining. During the reign of the Tsar, Ukraine was the world-famous granary of Europe, and as long as Ukraine did not cause disasters, Russia would not be hungry. In addition, at that time, in order to compete with Turkey for the Balkan region of the Black Sea, Russia also put a lot of railways, transportation, and military construction in Ukraine, after all, this was the front line of anti-Turkey.

In the Soviet era, Ukraine was also very favored, when the top industries of the Soviet Union were located in Ukraine, including the main battle tank manufacturing, the Southern Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, which mainly produced strategic missiles, the Antonov Aircraft Design Bureau, which built transport aircraft, the Madasic Company, which was responsible for aero engines, and the only manufacturer in the Soviet Union that could build aircraft carriers, the Black Sea Shipbuilder. It is even said that every official who works in Ukraine will have a smooth official fortune in the future. Before Khrushchev entered the Central Committee, the First Secretary of Ukraine, he proposed to plant corn in the whole Of Soviet Union, which was not imaginary. During his time as an official in Ukraine, Khrushchev paid attention to a good harvest in Ukraine, which pushed the experience to the whole Soviet Union. However, Ukraine has always been alienated from Germany, because the Russians have always adopted a policy of compulsory assimilation in their national policy. Although the two groups of people are very close in their national beliefs, there are actually many differences. The Russian fairy tale made Ukrainians very dissatisfied.

In 1917, with the fall of Tsarist Russia, the Soviet government signed the Brestritovsk Treaty with Germany, and Ukraine declared its independence. A newspaper editor, Petrilla, seized on nationalist sentiments and founded the People's Republic of Ukraine. Knowing the importance of this land, the Soviet Union certainly would not sit idly by, so it sent troops to recruit Petrilla and Poland, and the Russian army took the opportunity to drive into Poland. That is, the Soviet-Polish war that we talked about in the First World War. In 1921, Russia and Poland signed a contract, and Poland promised not to support the Ukrainian government, so the Soviet Union took advantage of the situation and turned Ukraine into a part of itself. A few Chinese New Year's Eve early years later, for various reasons, local food production was reduced, resulting in a great famine that spread across Ukraine. According to rough statistics, three million people must have died in this famine. In 1933, the death toll in Ukraine reached six times the number of births, and for the next decade the population remained negative, accompanied by the Great Famine of the Great Purge, from officials to folk artists, who were slaughtered for various inexplicable reasons. This kind of tragedy has once again raised the ukrainian national separatist forces, hoping to use external forces to free Ukraine from Soviet rule. Therefore, at the beginning of the Soviet-German War, when the German army marched into Ukraine, the locals would eat pot pulp to welcome the king's division. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians joined the SS in World War II. Then they later found that the Germans were worse off on them, so a considerable number of them joined the partisans in the anti-fascist struggle. After the end of World War II, although the contradictions between the two sides have eased, the rift can never be erased.

In the eighties, the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant once again deepened a layer of contradictions, the Ukrainians felt that I had been a victim so many times for the soviet industry, for the glory of the Russians, and the Soviet Union did not give me a little compensation, even if it was a verbal apology, the country really had nothing to linger on. So in 1991, seeing that the Soviet Union could not control the republics, Ukraine took the opportunity to declare independence. Most people probably think that Ukraine has had a good life after the collapse of the country, after all, it is a rich second generation. As soon as Dad died, he had everything, which was actually far less simple than he thought. It is true that Ukraine is a base of heavy industry, but these heavy industries are basically weapons-producing and are only part of Soviet industry. For example, if you build warships, the technology of gas turbines is very strong, but you can't build radar, there is no place to produce missiles, if you want to, you have to cooperate with Russia and the former Soviet Union. But at that time, Russia was poor and had no place to eat, and it could not produce weapons, and Ukraine's heavy industry had no livelihood. So Ukrainian industry is worthless overnight, and the country as a whole can only rely on Western economic aid to sell stockpiled weapons and related technologies. In order to get Western aid, this Ukraine destroyed all its nuclear weapons, which is also the most despised place for people today, saying that they have done martial arts at their own expense. However, in the context of the times at that time, either they starved to death with nuclear warheads or threw nuclear warheads for food. Clear-eyed people know what to do.

Beginning in 1990, Ukraine's economy declined sharply, and finally in 2000, positive growth was achieved thanks to investment by European companies. After eating the sweetness of this economic aid, Ukraine naturally wants to continue to turn to the West. So, in 2004, the Orange Revolution broke out, the pro-Western Yushchenko came to power, Russia was very dissatisfied, and in 2004, this Yushchenko had serious physical problems, and after testing, he was found to have been poisoned. It is generally believed that it was probably done by Russian agents. Since then, the Ukrainian government has been constantly tearing up whether to join the European Union. Because as long as it joins the European Union, Ukraine will enjoy a series of welfare policies, and if you want to improve the economy, it is a matter of minutes.

In 2013, President Viktor Yanukovych prepared to join the European Union, but did not want to offend Russia, so he planned to allow Russia to station troops in Crimea while signing an agreement with the European Union. But Russia said that it could not accept that the worldview of this nation has always been something that I like, and it must all be mine, even if it is a slight compromise and concession. Sanctions were imposed on Ukraine. This provoked anti-Russian sentiment among the people. Asiakovich wanted to compromise and negotiate, but there was no room for compromise on the other side of Poroshenko's street revolution. With Poroshenko coming to power, that means Ukraine has to break with Russia once and for all. Seeing that the situation was not good, Lao Maozi quickly sent troops to occupy Trimia and support the independence of the Wudong region behind his back, which triggered the Ukrainian civil war in 2014. There is a principle of joining the European Union, that is, there must be no territorial disputes, but Ukraine cannot give up Crimea and the eastern region casually, which becomes a dead end. In fact, Russia's purpose is to use this problem to drag Ukraine back and prevent them from joining the European Union. Now his goal has been achieved, Ukraine has entered Europe, and the domestic economy has been destroyed by the civil war. Therefore, at this point, some people will understand that under such a situation, Ukraine chose to destroy nuclear weapons for money, and it should be said that it is excusable to abandon Europe and enter Russia, but Ukraine underestimated the importance that this neighbor attaches to itself. The Polish president says Ukraine's greatest sorrow is that it is too close to Russia. In fact, this is more appropriate for Ukraine. And even sadder is to be born next to Russia's soft underbelly.

Ukraine is a rugged terrain in the southwest of Russia, and it is only more than 800 kilometers from Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, to Moscow. In case the West hits Russia through Ukraine, no amount of tanks can stop it. There is also the issue of sea routes, and the Black Sea is Russia's most important outlet to the sea. Today, they can still be world powers, and an important reason is that they have troops in the Middle East. The most convenient way for Russia to connect with the Middle East is from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. If Ukraine can't control it, it is equivalent to severing Russia's ties with the Middle East, so it would rather be sanctioned by the West than annex Crimea, interfere in Ukraine's internal affairs, and bring Ukraine into the abyss of war. As for whether Ukraine has become the field of today's film, whether it is self-inflicted, or whether the West is a ghost, or Russia, I believe that everyone is also clear in their hearts