Ukraine History

>>3284708
>Ukraine
>Crimeia

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>>3284708
Ukrainians are Russians who got fucked by Poles and Lithuanians so hard that they invented their own language

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Ukraine doesn't exist.

>>3284719
>>3284723
>>3284758
Disgusting prejudice.

>>3284708
I don't like that little dick jutting into Rumania.

>>3284794
t. Hohol

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>>3284826
It's Ukraine's independence day today you hateful bigot.

>>3284708
Only a few years of Ukraine's history meet the 25 year rule. I could tell you about Ukraine's history in the Russian revolution and the dissolution of the Soviet Union though.

In the Russian Civil War, what the West today calls Ukraine was divided between a few different entities: the Ukrainian People's Republic, which nominally governed Kiev, but would eventually be conquered by Poland and the Bolsheviks; the Ukrainian Soviet Republic(name could be off), which was founded by Bolsheviks in Kharkiv, but, again, was only really nominally independent; the White Army under general Anton Denikin; and the Free Territory, anarchists under warlord Nestor Makhno controlling for the most part the territory controlled today by the separatists in the Donbass.

Denikin launched an offensive north to try to take Moscow, but he was stopped by the combined efforts of the Red Army, and the Free Territory, which raided his supply lines for resources (there is debate as to whether Makhno did this just for loot or to help the Reds), following that and the defeat of Admiral Kolchak in the East, the White Army in what is now Ukraine eventually retreated into Crimea and used Sevastopol to evacuate in the face of defeat; at this time, they were led by Baron von Wrangel.

After the Polish-Soviet War of 1920, Ukraine was split between Ukraine proper (Soviet Union) and Galicia-Lodomeria (Poland); Czechoslovakia also owned a small part called Subcarpathian Ruthenia. The Soviet Union later united all of what is today Ukraine in 1939.

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West Ukraine is literally Poland, east Ukraine is literally Russia, the middle is a semi-newly formed nationality claiming inheretance of Ruthenia.

>>3284917
West Poland is literally Germany, East Poland is literally Russia, the middle is a semi-newly formed nationality claiming inheritance of Mazovia.

>>3284902
In the immediate aftermath of the Russian Civil War, Lenin and his government promoted minority languages; however, Stalin reversed this policy, fearing that it would undermine the unity of the Soviet Union, so Russian was used. Infamously, in 1932-3, there was a famine in the Ukraine and throughout the Soviet Union, and the Soviet government's response was inadequate, and it is hotly debated whether the Soviet Union's inadequate response was due to incompetence or malice. Whichever you choose to believe, between 3 and 8 million died in the borders of modern Ukraine, and many Russians moved in to fill the void left.

During the Second World War (Great Patriotic War for those in the former Soviet Union), the Ukraine suffered terribly, and was subject to mass repression that killed millions of people in massacres and deported to extermination centers in Poland. As if that weren't enough, much of the war was fought in Ukraine, and Ukraine' cities (particularly, Kiev, where, in the early days of Operation Barbarossa, a major battle was fought in which the Wehrmacht defeated a million-man strong Soviet force) were devastated in battles and scorched-Earth tactics. Moreover, there were revolutionary nationalist groups such as the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which killed between 50 and 100 thousand Poles in Galicia while collaborating with the advancing Nazis.

After the war, Stalin saw to it that the Poles were deported from Lviv in Western Ukraine, into Poland's modern borders, and ethnic Ukrainians were moved in to replace them. There was also a continuing insurgency by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army that continued until about 1952, but this never posed a significant threat to Soviet control in Ukraine.
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>>3284925
Not even remotely close Ivan

>>3284926
I don't know particularly much about the history of Ukraine during the Khrushchev or Brezhnev eras, so I apologize for that; however, do note that the former of these leaders is responsible for giving Crimea (formerly part of the Russian SFSR) to Ukraine in 1954, as a gift to the CPSU in Ukraine for loyalty.

Most people are aware of the Chernobyl disaster and that it devastated Ukrainian farmland, heavily damaging already struggling Soviet agriculture in the 1980's.

In the 1991 referendum on the continuation of the Soviet Union, Ukraine as a whole mostly voted to remain a part of a Soviet Union if said Union were to be reorganized. However, the August coup in 1991 ended any hopes of that, and Ukraine held and independence referendum and voted to declare independence. It is important to note that Crimea, if you look at overall turnout, was the only oblast in Ukraine to not vote majority for independence.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian economy essentially went into free fall, and has never recovered since. In 1992-3 there was a constitutional crisis in which Crimea tried to secede from Ukraine, but remained because it was threatened with military force.

In 1994, Ukraine returned its nuclear weapons to Russia, and, in return, Russia guaranteed the independence of Ukraine. Ukraine also leased the Crimean naval base at Sevastopol to Russia for several decades.

That's about as far as I can get without delving into modern politics, so I will leave it at that.

>>3284708
>nomads inland, greeks on the coast
>bulgaria forms there, recognized by eastern roman empire
>khazaria takes the place, not recognized as lawful but the romans can't act at the time
>later a russian state includes it, but its still nomadic tribes living in anarchy
>later a polish state takes the north, but its still nomadic tribes living in anarchy
>ottoman state takes some of it, they are still mostly autonomous
>russian state takes all of it, nomads fight for the tzar and are left largely alone
>very heavy russian colonization effort, becomes a slav inhabited area
>russia loses it to austria when surrendering in ww1, austria loses it to the allies
>anarchy again, this time under the black flag socialists
>ussr reds take over and add it to the union as autonomous
>lenin keeps adding territory to it to make it self-sufficient
>germany occupies it, non-slavic nomadic people join and aid them
>ussr takes it back, non-slavic people exiled to siberia for treason, many die on the way
>ussr dissolves, ukraine gains independence, including the lands lenin added to it
>north-western Polish-Austrian colonist part looking to join NATO, while the south-east Russian colonist area wants to join Russia
>coup, counter coup, false flags, soldiers without uniforms, civil war and memes

Basically Ukraine is the Russian quest to get a warm port to park their navy, and in modern days the NATO quest to get a missile silo close to Moscow.
Most of its existence it was central Asia tier steppe nomad anarchy, and only "civilized" by Russian colonists building towns where the Greek city states were near the coasts.

>>3284945
Khruschev himself was Ukrainian, Crimea wasn't a gift of loyalty, it aas more of a desire to strengthen his home republic.