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'''Ukraine''' is a territory in Eastern [[Europe]] and former constituent republic of the [[USSR]]. Its administrative center is [[Kiev]]. The territories border [[Belarus]], [[Poland]], [[Slovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Moldova]] and the [[Russian Federation]]. Although no such "[[legal]]" entity existed or was recognized by its peers as "Ukraine" prior to the [[Bolshevik]] designation in 1918<ref>https://www.academia.edu/92516490/The_Ukrainians_Unexpected_Nation_review_?email_work_card=title</ref> recent research by [[nationalist]] scholars claim the Cossack Hetmanate [[state]] occupied similar borders during the 1600s and 1700s during which they some referred to it as Sloboda Ukraine.<ref>Kryzhanivsky, S.A.; Hajda, L.A.; Yerofeyev, I.A.; Zasenko, O.E.; et. al. (2025, July 17). "[https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/The-autonomous-hetman-state-and-Sloboda-Ukraine The Autonomous Hetman State and Sloboda Ukraine.]" ''Encyclopædia Britannica.''</ref>

'''Ukraine''' is a territory in Eastern [[Europe]] and former constituent republic of the [[USSR]]. Its administrative center is [[Kiev]]. The territories border [[Belarus]], [[Poland]], [[Slovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Moldova]] and the [[Russian Federation]]. Although no such "[[legal]]" entity existed or was recognized by its peers as "Ukraine" prior to the [[Bolshevik]] designation in 1918<ref>https://www.academia.edu/92516490/The_Ukrainians_Unexpected_Nation_review_?email_work_card=title</ref> recent research by [[nationalist]] scholars claim the Cossack Hetmanate [[state]] occupied similar borders during the 1600s and 1700s during which some referred to it as Sloboda Ukraine.<ref>Kryzhanivsky, S.A.; Hajda, L.A.; Yerofeyev, I.A.; Zasenko, O.E.; et. al. (2025, July 17). "[https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/The-autonomous-hetman-state-and-Sloboda-Ukraine The Autonomous Hetman State and Sloboda Ukraine.]" ''Encyclopædia Britannica.''</ref>

It was artificially carved out of the [[Russian Empire]] by the [[Bolsheviks]] as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1922<ref>[https://davidstockman.substack.com/p/the-ukrainian-border-war-folly The Ukrainian Border War Folly], [[David Stockman]], June 17, 2024. "The only time the borders of Ukraine have been redrawn at the barrel of a gun is when Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev did it between 1922 and 1954. That’s right, this [[Ursula von der Leyen|bureaucratic half-wit]] wants to embroil the world in [[WWIII]] in order to enforce borders drawn by a trio if history’s most blood-thirsty [[tyrant]]s." davidstockman.substack.com</ref> having the precedent of the Ukrainian People's Republic claims which were rejected at the [[Paris Peace Conference]] (1918-20) by the victorious powers after WWI,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://shs.cairn.info/journal-materiaux-pour-l-histoire-de-notre-temps-2014-1-page-180?lang=en|title=Identification, Legitimation, and Stigmatization: The Ukrainian Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1918-20) through its Written Materials|author=Thomas Chopard|quote=In late 1918, a struggle was taking place on the Ukrainian territory of the former Russian empire, between the Soviet authorities, White Russian nationalists, and partisans of Ukrainian independence, over the reconfiguration and control of the state. At the same time, the Ukrainian People’s Republic decided to send a delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1918-1920), at which it had only observer status. The written documents produced on this occasion, of which the BDIC’s Klotz archive has a particularly significant collection, give an insight into the cognitive horizon of the Ukrainian pro-independence elite of the time.|date=January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1919Parisv05/d79|title=Notes of a Meeting Held at President Wilson’s House in the Place des Etats-Unis, Paris, at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, May 21, 1919|publisher=Office of the Historian|date=May 21, 1919}}</ref> or the short-lived monarchist anti-Bolshevik and defeated pro-[[Central Powers]] Hetmanat, Atamanat or Ukrainian State from 1918 with substantially different borders.<ref name=Hetmanat/> Its borders from 1922 to 2014 were drawn by [[Soviet]] [[dictator]]s [[Vladimir Lenin]], [[Joseph Stalin]], and [[Nikita Khruschev]] without the [[democracy|democratic]] consent of the inhabitants' resident there. Ukraine's territories were taken from neighbouring countries by the [[communist]] [[dictator]]s. While the Ukrainophile view of history talks about the [[Kievan Rus]]' as the precedent of Ukraine as a state, the Russophile view rejects it (view the [[#Historiography|historiography section]]), thus the existence of Ukraine as a separate entity inside the USSR is sometimes referred to as the "Lenin's mistake" by the latter. [[American foreign policy]] since 1991 has been to uphold the illegal, arbitrary and undemocratic decrees of Soviet dictators.

It was artificially carved out of the [[Russian Empire]] by the [[Bolsheviks]] as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1922<ref>[https://davidstockman.substack.com/p/the-ukrainian-border-war-folly The Ukrainian Border War Folly], [[David Stockman]], June 17, 2024. "The only time the borders of Ukraine have been redrawn at the barrel of a gun is when Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev did it between 1922 and 1954. That’s right, this [[Ursula von der Leyen|bureaucratic half-wit]] wants to embroil the world in [[WWIII]] in order to enforce borders drawn by a trio if history’s most blood-thirsty [[tyrant]]s." davidstockman.substack.com</ref> having the precedent of the Ukrainian People's Republic claims which were rejected at the [[Paris Peace Conference]] (1918-20) by the victorious powers after WWI,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://shs.cairn.info/journal-materiaux-pour-l-histoire-de-notre-temps-2014-1-page-180?lang=en|title=Identification, Legitimation, and Stigmatization: The Ukrainian Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1918-20) through its Written Materials|author=Thomas Chopard|quote=In late 1918, a struggle was taking place on the Ukrainian territory of the former Russian empire, between the Soviet authorities, White Russian nationalists, and partisans of Ukrainian independence, over the reconfiguration and control of the state. At the same time, the Ukrainian People’s Republic decided to send a delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1918-1920), at which it had only observer status. The written documents produced on this occasion, of which the BDIC’s Klotz archive has a particularly significant collection, give an insight into the cognitive horizon of the Ukrainian pro-independence elite of the time.|date=January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1919Parisv05/d79|title=Notes of a Meeting Held at President Wilson’s House in the Place des Etats-Unis, Paris, at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, May 21, 1919|publisher=Office of the Historian|date=May 21, 1919}}</ref> or the short-lived monarchist anti-Bolshevik and defeated pro-[[Central Powers]] Hetmanat, Atamanat or Ukrainian State from 1918 with substantially different borders.<ref name=Hetmanat/> Its borders from 1922 to 2014 were drawn by [[Soviet]] [[dictator]]s [[Vladimir Lenin]], [[Joseph Stalin]], and [[Nikita Khruschev]] without the [[democracy|democratic]] consent of the inhabitants' resident there. Ukraine's territories were taken from neighbouring countries by the [[communist]] [[dictator]]s. While the Ukrainophile view of history talks about the [[Kievan Rus]]' as the precedent of Ukraine as a state, the Russophile view rejects it (view the [[#Historiography|historiography section]]), thus the existence of Ukraine as a separate entity inside the USSR is sometimes referred to as the "Lenin's mistake" by the latter. [[American foreign policy]] since 1991 has been to uphold the illegal, arbitrary and undemocratic decrees of Soviet dictators.