As sons of the Soviet Union, why do Russia and Ukraine frequently use force, and what are their grievances?
Ukraine and Russia border the territory, their relationship is very special, although the main ethnic body of Ukraine is Ukrainians, the main ethnic body of Russia is Russian, but the nationalities of the two countries are of the same origin, and they are all differentiated by the Slavs. The most crucial thing is that during the former Soviet period, Ukraine and Russia were both members of the Soviet Republic, and under the premise of ethnic relations, this level of alliance made them closer, and it is not too much to say that they are two brothers.
But why does Ukraine today regard Russia as an enemy, and the two sides have even reached the point where swords are fierce and intolerable? This has to start with the intricate historical relationship between the two countries.
First, the origin of the nation and the establishment of the country, Ukraine and Russia are actually two brothers
01. National origin
Slavs originated in the Vistula River valley in present-day Poland, the earliest written records appear in the ancient Roman literature of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries, according to the Slavic language, Slavic means glory and glory, in the Roman Empire, Slavs together with the Germans, Celts were called the three barbarians of Europe by the Romans, and are also one of the representative peoples of today's Europeans.
In the 4th-6th centuries, tribal alliances appeared among the Slavs, which gradually divided into three major branches due to the impact of the Great Migration of Peoples, and different names appeared, the West Branch was called the Veneid, the East Branch was called the Antes, and the South Branch was called the Slavic. In the 12th and 14th centuries, due to feudal division, the Ancient Rus' tribes formed by the Ant gradually split into three branches: Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians.
The 9th-century Principality of Kievan Rus is considered the beginning of the history of the Antes (East Slavs), founded by the Ancient Rus and named after Kiev. According to historians, Kievan Rus' is considered to be three modern East Slavic states, namely Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, and today's Ukraine is the core area of the historicalLyKan Rus' Principality.
02. The founding of Russia
In the 1620s, the mongol armies led by Genghis Khan's grandson Batu invaded Eastern Europe, making the Duchy of Vladimir-Suzdali a vassal state of the Golden Horde, and then the Mongols advanced westward, and on December 6, 1240, the Mongol army captured Kiev, and the Kievan Rus' Principality became a vassal state under the Mongol Empire, and the former Rus' states paid tribute to the Golden Horde. In 1283, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which was enthroned by Vladimir and had Moscow as its capital, was established, also a vassal state of the Golden Horde. In 1480, Ivan III, Grand Duke of Moscow, defeated the Great Horde after the division of the Golden Horde, allowing the Grand Duchy of Moscow to become independent from the Great Horde, which ended 240 years of Mongol rule over Russia.
In 1547, Grand Duke Ivan IV of the Duchy of Moscow was crowned Tsar and the Russian state was born. In 1721, after Peter I's victory in the Great Northern War in the Kingdom of Sweden, he was awarded the title of "Emperor of All Russia" by the Russian Senate, and Russia officially became a real empire. During the February Revolution of 1917, Nicholas II signed a declaration of abdication, the fall of the Russian Empire and the establishment of the Russian Republic, but in the same year it was overthrown by the Bolsheviks through the October Revolution and replaced by Soviet Russia. On December 30, 1922, the Soviet Union formed the Soviet Union from the various countries that had become independent from the Russian Empire after the same war, until December 25, 1991, when the Soviet Union disintegrated, which also meant that russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other fifteen countries completely entered a state of independence and self-determination.
03. The history of the establishment of Ukraine
The word "Ukraine", first seen in the 1187 Chronicle of Rus' and meaning "frontier land", belonged to the Duchy of Kiev during the Ancient Rus' period, as in today's Russia.
From the 14th century onwards, Ukraine was freed from the Mongol Empire and subsequently ruled by the Duchy of Lithuania and Poland. In 1649, during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, the Cossack Emirate was proclaimed, the predecessor of the Ukrainian state, and the leader of the time, Khmelnytsky, when negotiating with Poland, declared himself the sole ruler of all Of Ukraine. After the Third Northern War, the Cossack emirate was divided among other powers, and in the 19th century, most of Ukraine was annexed by the Russian Empire, and a small part was occupied by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During the chaos of World War I and the Russian Revolution, Ukraine briefly became the People's Republic of Ukraine, and in 1917 it established the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, in 1922 it was incorporated into the Soviet Union as one of the Soviet republics, and on August 24, 1991, it withdrew from the Soviet Union, and Ukraine finally became officially independent.
