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| | '''Ukraine''' is the name of a territory in [[Eastern Europe]] meaning "borderlands". The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) was a former constituent republic of the [[Soviet Union]] created by the [[Bolshevik]]s. Its administrative center was [[Kyiv]]. The land bordered [[Belarus]], [[Poland]], [[Slovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Moldova]] and the [[Russian Federation]]. | | '''Ukraine''' is the name of a territory in [[Eastern Europe]] meaning "borderlands". The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) was a former constituent republic of the [[Soviet Union]] created by the [[Bolshevik]]s. Its administrative center was [[Kyiv]]. The land bordered [[Belarus]], [[Poland]], [[Slovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Moldova]] and the [[Russian Federation]]. |
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| − | Post-1945 Ukraine, which was a member state of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, became a patchwork of lands and territories annexed from what was known in [[the West]] as the "Captive Nations" - [[Poland]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Czechoslovakia]] and [[Russia]]. The [[NATO]] alliance was created in the [[Cold War]] era to "liberate" the "Captive Nations". In an irony of history, in the post-[[Cold War]] 21st century, the [[NATO]] alliance provoked war to maintain Soviet Ukraine's [[Stalinist]] borders. | + | Post-1945 Ukraine, which was a member state of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, became a patchwork of lands and territories annexed from what was known in [[the West]] as the "Captive Nations" - [[Poland]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Czechoslovakia]] and [[Russia]]. The [[NATO]] alliance was created in the [[Cold War]] era to "liberate" the "Captive Nations." In an irony of history, in the post-[[Cold War]] 21st century, the [[NATO]] alliance provoked war to maintain Soviet Ukraine's [[Stalinist]] borders. |
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| − | 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> The current [[Ukrainian regime]] officially claims to be the only "racially pure" legitimate successor to the [[Kievan Rus]], viewing ethnic [[Russian]]s as [[subhuman]] [[Asia]]tic hordes. According to the Historian Kathryn David: "The Catholic presence in Lviv is not simply a historical curiosity. The [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church]] has played an outsized role not just in the local culture, but in the creation of the Ukrainian nation".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/breach|title=Into the Breach - The role of Ukraine’s Greek Catholic Church|date=January 18, 2023|website=Commonweal Magazine}}</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> The current [[Ukrainian regime]] officially claims to be the only "racially pure" legitimate successor to the [[Kievan Rus]], viewing ethnic [[Russian]]s as [[subhuman]] [[Asia]]tic hordes. According to the Historian Kathryn David: "The Catholic presence in Lviv is not simply a historical curiosity. The [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church]] has played an outsized role not just in the local culture, but in the creation of the Ukrainian nation."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/breach|title=Into the Breach - The role of Ukraine’s Greek Catholic Church|date=January 18, 2023|website=Commonweal Magazine}}</ref> |
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| | As in [[East Germany]] behind the [[Berlin Wall]], males between 16 and 60 can be shot for attempting to escape under the [[Zelensky regime]]. | | As in [[East Germany]] behind the [[Berlin Wall]], males between 16 and 60 can be shot for attempting to escape under the [[Zelensky regime]]. |