As sons of the Soviet Union, why do Russia and Ukraine frequently use force, and what are their grievances?
The millennium has been entangled in grievances, and Ukraine is justified
01. Ukraine and Russia have formed an alliance for the first time, and the attitudes of the two sides to the alliance are very different
In order to resist the invasion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ottoman Turkey, in 1654, the chief of the Cossack Emirate, Khmelnytsky, signed the Treaty of Peryaslav with Tsarist Russia, and Eastern Ukraine joined the Muscovite Principality and pledged allegiance to Tsarist Russia. Eastern Ukraine, under Tsarist rule, was Orthodox and learned Russian, while Western Ukraine, under Polish rule, was Catholic and Polishized. This has also led to a huge ideological contrast between Eastern and Western Ukraine, which is why Ukraine is so divided today.
Russia and Ukraine had very different attitudes toward the treaty, and Ukraine felt that although they were dependent on Russia, they were all in the same vein and should be equal in status with each other. But Tsarist Russia did not see it this way, in their eyes, Ukraine was nothing more than a desperate lost dog, not worthy of being equal to it.
02. The Treaty of Brest, russia abandoned Ukraine
In 1795, the once invincible Poland was divided between Tsarist Russia, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire, and the country was destroyed, and Eastern and Western Ukraine was also unified and merged into Tsarist Russia.
The ukrainian land of Pyongyang is fertile, and the positioning of Ukraine by Tsarist Russia is used to produce grain, which makes Ukraine win the reputation of "the granary of Europe", but the colonized rule of Tsarist Russia makes the Ukrainian people miserable and lives in the water. Under Tsarist rule, Ukrainians could only speak Russian, and there were historical records of Ukraine, all of which were burned and all cultural traditions abolished. If this continues, Ukraine will eventually be completely Russified and become part of today's Russia, then there will be no disputes today, but history has made a joke to Ukrainians.
During World War I, Tsarist Russia suffered heavy losses, the Tsar fell, and after the October Revolution, the Bolshevik regime was established and Soviet Russia was born. In order to be able to withdraw from world war and stop the loss in time, Soviet Russia signed the Treaty of Brest with the Allies led by Germany, which in addition to the clause of mourning power and humiliation, there was also a clause that Soviet Russia must recognize the independence of Ukraine. At that time, in order to seek temporary partial security, Soviet Russia had to abandon Ukraine bitterly.
03. In the Soviet-Polish war, Ukraine became the biggest victim and was divided again
With the defeat of the Allies, Poland, which has been destroyed for a hundred years, seized the historical opportunity and successfully restored the country, and when the situation was stable, Poland extended its tentacles to the Ukrainian territory, at this time Ukraine was already independent, after the Soviet Russia declared the "Treaty of Brest" null and void, it also sent troops to the Ukrainian territory, the Soviet army and the Polish army fought a decisive battle on the ukrainian territory, known as the Soviet-Polish War (after the war, the Soviet Union and Poland both claimed to be victorious), and finally the Soviet Union only took eastern Ukraine, Soviet power was established in eastern Ukraine, while western Ukraine fell back into polish hands, and since then, eastern and western Ukraine has been divided again, and it can be said that the biggest victim of this war is Ukraine.
04. Under the leadership of the Soviet Union, there was a great famine in Ukraine, which Ukraine believed was intentional by the Soviet Union
In 1922, the Russian Federation, the South Caucasus Federation, Eastern Ukraine, and Belarus established the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or soviet union for short.
Ten years after eastern Ukraine joined the Soviet Union, the Soviet government promoted the collectivization of agriculture, which was strongly resisted by the Ukrainians, who were not adapted to the changes in the social system, but they had no autonomy and were completely led by the nose of the Soviet Union. In order to prevent the communalization of property, the Ukrainians began to hide grain and slaughtered livestock for agricultural production, which infuriated the Soviet leaders, who decided to teach the Ukrainians a lesson, so they designated those who resisted the collectivization of agriculture as "kulaks" and imposed a policy of exile. The policy of nationalizing all agricultural products and agricultural materials and imposing the death penalty on individual possession essentially prevented farmers from appropriating any agricultural products for themselves, and by January 1933, 79,000 Ukrainians had been arrested for the crime, of whom 78,000 had been executed. At that time, some Ukrainians wanted to flee, but The Soviet Union banned the movement of Ukrainians and cut off Ukraine's external transportation routes.
This caused the Ukrainians' enthusiasm to produce plummeted, with food production falling by 40 percent from the previous year and most of it being taken away by the Soviet authorities, a move that led directly to the Great Famine in Ukraine, in which about 3 million Ukrainians died, according to statistics. Ukrainian politicians and historians believe that there are natural causes of famine, but more human factors, which were premeditated ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians by the Soviet Union with the intention of exterminating Ukrainians.
05, Ukraine once again returned to the embrace of the Soviet Union, a rare period of stability
In 1939, Germany attacked Poland, The Second World War broke out, the Soviet Union took this opportunity to send troops to capture Western Ukraine, and East and West Ukraine was once again unified in the war. But the drama is that in 1941, the Soviet Union and Germany went to war, most of the territory of Ukraine fell into the hands of the Germans, and in 1943, the Soviet Union counterattacked Ukraine, driving the Germans away, and Ukraine once again returned to the embrace of the Soviet Union.
After the end of World War II, the Soviet Union became a big winner, and unified Ukraine also became the second largest republic of the Soviet Union, from this time to the collapse of the Soviet Union, which was a rare period of stability in the hundreds of years since the founding of Ukraine.
