Speaking of the beginning of this war, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops to support the independence of the Donbass region.
Russia then sent troops to suppress the territory to create a fact of succession, and this time the same is true.
But Donbass, a Ukrainian region, where are so many Ethnic Russians?
Let's talk about this Donbass today, located in the east of Ukraine, which was originally a barren land.
In 1783 Russia annexed Crimea, and Donbass has since become Russian territory.
At the beginning of the 19th century, a large number of coal resources were found here, and at the time when the Industrial Revolution spread throughout Europe, coal mines were indispensable to the blood of industry.
Therefore, the entire Donbass coalfield is located in an area of 60,000 square kilometers, which is one of the five largest coalfields in the world, and on the basis of the coalfields, a large number of industrial cities have emerged in the local area.
In 1868, the British merchant John Hughes was hired to open a metallurgical giant enterprise in Ukraine, which drove the migration of the population and formed the city.
In 1961, the name was changed to Doneesk, which is the place where there is a split today, and with resources and investment, the labor problem must be solved next.
In the past few centuries, Tsarist Russia has always been a serfdom, and the serfs at the bottom of society are not allowed to leave this acre and three points of land, basically the serf was born and decided that he must not be separated from the front and back of the house in this life.
At that time, the living environment of this Russian serf was no different from that of the Middle Ages, and it was basically crowded into a room with pigs.
The house is basically ventilated on all sides, cold in winter and hot in summer, and there is not a shop in the tens of miles, and there is no shop in the ten miles of mountain road.
And because of the harsh natural environment in the Russian hinterland, the serfs often worked hard for a year, and they were not able to eat or drink.
It wasn't until the mid-to-late 19th century and early 20th century that they ushered in a change of fate. Tsar Alexander II and Prime Minister Stolypin successively carried out land reforms, relaxed population movements, abolished rural communes and industry and commerce, and encouraged peasants to go to the cities to develop.
Although the Russian workers did not have a good life at that time, at least the houses were built, so no matter how dirty and miserable the urban slum life was, there was still a huge temptation for the Russian migrant workers.
The Donbass Industrial Zone is far stronger than its home country in terms of climate and wages.
So a large number of Russian peasants, since they had the opportunity, went to work in the industrial cities of Ukraine.
The typical representative is Khrushchev, whose ancestors were poor and lower-middle peasants for eight generations, and the family took the opportunity to move to Doneesk, and Khrushchev grew up to become a mechanic in the mine.
Russians make up 775 percent of the local population, so why are the factories Russians and not Ukrainians?
Because Ukrainians are generally accustomed to farming, if the land resources are not enough, they would rather go to the frontier to open up the land than go to the city to work for others.
In the 20 years before the outbreak of World War I, about 1.5 million Ukrainians traveled to the Siberian Kazakh steppe to buy cheap wasteland to settle down.
There are even people who have gone to Canada to settle down because cheap land is available here.
The October Revolution broke out in 1917. Those Russian workers made great contributions to the Soviet Union's acquisition of Ukraine, they first established Ukrainian Soviet power, declared their secession from Russia, and then made a concert with Lenin Han, announced their accession to Soviet Russia, and in Lenin's thinking, other regions could be abandoned, but Ukraine was a big granary, without which there would be no food to eat, and independence was absolutely not allowed.
However, the Ukrainians themselves did not admit it, and were determined to draw a line with Russia, so they established the Republic of Western Ukraine under the leadership of Simon Vasilievich Petriura, and Western Ukraine once regained its capital Kiev.
However, under the joint blows of the Soviet Red Army and the White Russian White Army, the western Ukrainian independence movement failed, and Simon Vasilievich Petriula went into exile in France and died.
The whole territory, including western Ukraine, was occupied by Russia, and although the independence movement failed, Lenin suddenly woke up, and the Ukrainians were not as good as they thought, in order to appease their independence sentiments, in order to weaken the status of the Ukrainian majority nation.
So the Territory of the Donbass, which originally belonged to Russia, was handed over to Ukraine.
The Soviet Union has always adopted this kind of sand-mixing behavior in administrative divisions, that is, to change the ethnic proportion of other republics by assigning areas with many ethnic groups in Russia to other republics.
Today, Donbass is incited for independence, on the one hand, because the Soviet Union's administrative divisions are unreasonable, and when we look at Putin's speech, he deliberately emphasizes that he does not recognize Lenin's Ukraine policy.
Otherwise his actions would not have been explained by legitimacy.
Russia still adopted a relatively gentle approach in Donbass, and in other border areas it was quite a bit, killing the indigenous people first and then emigrating to the local area.
When the Russians occupied the Far East, the first thing they did was to collect the poll tax, collect the fur from house to house, the locals knew where these guys came from, no one gave them, and then the Russians robbed, kidnapped, killed and forcibly confiscated the fur, and sold the locals as slaves.
The two sides began to fight, either you die or I live.
Before the arrival of the Russians at the beginning of the seventeenth century, there was a nation called Yukagil in the Far East, and after 100 years of development and construction by the Russians, less than half of the Yukagil people remained, and there was a nation on the Kamchatka Peninsula called this Kamchatka.
We in China call it the Ghost Country, and after the rule of the Russians, the population has decreased by 70%.
In the eastern part of the Far East there was a people called the Chukchi, and after the Arrival of the Russians, the Chukchi resolutely disobeyed colonial rule and fought a war with the Russians for hundreds of years.
The population was forced to move eastward and now lives only on the Chukotka Peninsula.
The Russians relied on this colonial approach to turn the frontier into a hinterland, while the true hinterland of North Asia remained the domain of the indigenous peoples.
Until today, when you cross the river from the Black River to Highland Bubble, you will find that this is a completely Russian city, and the indigenous people have disappeared without a trace.
Compared with these places, Donbass is still lucky, at least it can become a disputed area.
In other words, his border did not have this controversy at all, because the indigenous people had long been killed.
We'll talk so much about the Donbass conflict in Ukraine today.
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