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Critics regards it as a failed state and puppet regime<ref>When a [[nation state]] cannot pay for it own defense in money or manpower, it has lost its independence and [[sovereignty]], and is commonly referred to as a "stooge state" or "puppet regime."</ref> since coming under the tutelage of [[NATO]] and the [[United States]] in an illegal [[coup]] in 2014. It is rated as the most [[corrupt]] government in [[Europe]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-most-corrupt-nation-in-europe-ukraine</ref> After the U.S.-backed coup under [[Barack Obama]], the Ukrainian regime became increasingly fascist and [[xenophobic]]. As late as 2020, the UK Counter Terrorism Policing agency listed the Ukrainian Trident, the country's official coat of arms, next to the [[swastika]] as "symbols commonly associated with [[white supremacy]]."<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51174898 Ukraine coat of arms in UK anti-terror list furore], By Georgina Rannard, [[BBC News]], 21 January 2020.</ref> Ukraine is one of Europe's most notorious human and child trafficing centers.<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-human-traffciking-416319 Ukraine's Shame: An Epidemic of Human Trafficking], LUKE A. DRABYN, ''Newsweek'', 1/16/16.</ref>
Critics regards it as a failed state and puppet regime<ref>When a [[nation state]] cannot pay for it own defense in money or manpower, it has lost its independence and [[sovereignty]], and is commonly referred to as a "stooge state" or "puppet regime."</ref> since coming under the tutelage of [[NATO]] and the [[United States]] in an illegal [[coup]] in 2014. It is rated as the most [[corrupt]] government in [[Europe]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-most-corrupt-nation-in-europe-ukraine</ref> After the U.S.-backed coup under [[Barack Obama]], the Ukrainian regime became increasingly fascist and [[xenophobic]]. As late as 2020, the UK Counter Terrorism Policing agency listed the Ukrainian Trident, the country's official coat of arms, next to the [[swastika]] as "symbols commonly associated with [[white supremacy]]."<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51174898 Ukraine coat of arms in UK anti-terror list furore], By Georgina Rannard, [[BBC News]], 21 January 2020.</ref> Ukraine is one of Europe's most notorious human and child trafficing centers.<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-human-traffciking-416319 Ukraine's Shame: An Epidemic of Human Trafficking], LUKE A. DRABYN, ''Newsweek'', 1/16/16.</ref>
Ukraine has succesfully carried out a Decommunization process, turning down Marxist symbols and statues.<ref name=Marples/>
A "Ukrainian state" was created by the [[Bolshevik]]s with remnants of the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian empires. No entity known as "Ukraine" existed prior to 1918. Other territories were seized by Stalin from Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia - countries that provided troops to the German invasion of Russia during World War II. Later the Ukrainian-born Soviet communist and premier [[Nikita Khruschev]] severed the [[Crimean Peninsula]] from Russia proper, which had been a Russian territory for 400 years. The word itself, "Ukraine" literally means "border" or "borderlands".
A "Ukrainian state" was created by the [[Bolshevik]]s with remnants of the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian empires. No entity known as "Ukraine" existed prior to 1918. Other territories were seized by Stalin from Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia - countries that provided troops to the German invasion of Russia during World War II. Later the Ukrainian-born Soviet communist and premier [[Nikita Khruschev]] severed the [[Crimean Peninsula]] from Russia proper, which had been a Russian territory for 400 years. The word itself, "Ukraine" literally means "border" or "borderlands".
==Etymology==
==Etymology==
From Polish, u kraya = borderlands
From Polish, u kraya = borderlands
==Decommunization==
{{Main article|Anti-Communism}}
[[File:Ukrainians Tear Down Lenin Statue in Kharkiv.jpg|thumbnail|380px|Ukrainians Tear Down the Statue of the [[Marxist]] [[Dictator]] and [[Tyrant]], [[Vladimir Lenin]] in [[Kharkiv]] in 2014.]]
After the fall of the USRR, Ukraine has started a Decommunization process.<ref name=Marples/> Since the Holodomor is present in the national memory, Ukrainians are very [[Anticommunist]] and have torn down several statues of the [[Marxist]] [[Dictator]], [[Vladimir Lenin]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/patriotic-ukrainians-tear-down-lenin-statue-116479|publisher=artnet|date=September 29, 2014|title=Patriotic Ukrainians Tear Down Lenin Statue}}</ref> or transforming them into characters. The country has removed all 1,320 statues of Lenin. Ukraine has successfully carried out the process, similar to other post-communist countries, and unlike Russia.
The process also included the ban of communist parties since 2015.<ref name=GoodbyeLenin/><ref name=BanSovietEra/>
In 2023 the Marxist [[Hammer and Sickle]] symbol was removed from the emblematic ''Mother Ukraine'' giant statue being replaced by the national coat of arms, the trident.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukraine-strips-hammer-sickle-gigantic-motherland-monument-replace-state-trident|title=Ukraine strips hammer and sickle from gigantic 'Motherland' monument, replace with state trident|date=August 8, 2023|publisher=Fox News}}</ref>
==Language, Religion, Culture==
==Language, Religion, Culture==
After the Maidan coup, the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported in April 2017 that [[North Korea]] obtained its [[ballistic missile]] [[technology]] with the ability to strike the continental Western United States from the NATO puppet state of "democratic" Ukraine, in violation of non-proliferation treaties..<ref>[https://archive.is/nckTN#selection-341.0-341.52 North Korea’s Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say], By William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, ''New York Times'', Aug. 14, 2017.</ref>
After the Maidan coup, the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported in April 2017 that [[North Korea]] obtained its [[ballistic missile]] [[technology]] with the ability to strike the continental Western United States from the NATO puppet state of "democratic" Ukraine, in violation of non-proliferation treaties..<ref>[https://archive.is/nckTN#selection-341.0-341.52 North Korea’s Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say], By William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, ''New York Times'', Aug. 14, 2017.</ref>
===Racial theories and discrimination===
===Racial theories and discrimination===