On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to conduct military operations in the Donbass region.
On the same day, Ukrainian President Zelenskiy announced that the whole territory would enter a state of wartime, and Ukraine and Russia would break off diplomatic relations.
On the afternoon of the 26th, the battle in the streets of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, broke out.
Kiev bombed the building
From Putin ordering the Russian army to attack, to the three directions of the east and west to encircle the city of Kiev, in just 3 days, Eastern Europe has become the focus of the world.
What we are seeing now is "Ukraine's 2014 color revolution, the opposition came to power, and Ukraine urgently requested to join the European Union and join NATO" Russia is about to lose the last buffer zone in Eastern Europe, and Russia can only intervene with troops.
Ukrainian color revolution
But history tells us a different answer: the national question
Before the 13th century, both countries belonged to the Slavic branch, collectively known as the "Rus' people".
In the 14th century, the Rus' tribe split into three main tribes, Russia. Belarus. Ukrainian tribes. Although they are similar tribes of the same lineage and the same origin, which should be friendly and mutually helpful, in reality, ukrainians have no good feelings for the Russians and hate Russia very much.
Kievan Rus'
One. Tsarist period
In the 18th century, Tsarist Russia divided Poland three times with the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire, and most of Ukraine in Polish hands came under Tsarist rule. Ukraine abolished autonomy and abolished the Cossack army. A large number of ethnic Russians emigrated to Ukraine for forced assimilation. Most of the ukrainian population was enslaved and oppressed by Russian serfdom.
Partition of Poland
Two. Soviet period
After World War I, the Soviet Union was formed. In order to increase foreign exchange reserves, a large amount of food is exported, and the source of food is Ukraine, which has the best black land in the world. Stalin, the ruler of the Soviet Union, in order to complete the country's heavy industry plan as soon as possible, gave priority to industry in everything, and agriculture implemented the mode of collective agriculture. Only enough grain per capita of the farm members was left, and the rest was handed over. Many Ukrainians rose up in resistance, and about 80,000 were arrested, missing, and exiled.
Stalin
The collective farm is at a meeting
Three. The Great Famine
In 1932, there was a drought in Ukraine, and there was a famine because there were no surplus grain stocks on the farms. For more than a year, by the beginning of 1934, the people had eaten bark, grazed, and even "cannibalism" incidents. The Soviet government did not release real data, and later declassified Soviet archives, statistics in the millions, but the population of Ukraine at that time was about 30 million.
Victims of the Ukrainian disaster
These factors fermented a strange scene, during World War II, Ukrainian women welcomed the German Nazis, a large number of Ukrainians served the logistics of the German army, and the aggressor Nazi was regarded as a liberator.
The Germans marched into Ukraine
The old and new antagonisms between history and modern times have prompted ukrainians to burst out of a great anti-Russian and anti-Russian mentality, and step by step towards war.