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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.

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>

As in [[East Germany]] behind the [[Berlin Wall]], males between 16 to 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]].

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. The Historian Hryhoriy Pivtorak claims that: "On 22 October 1721, Peter I renamed his state Tsardom of Moscow to the Russian Empire and its inhabitants Muscovites to Russians".<ref>{{cite book|title=Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians: Three Peoples, Three Paths|author=Hryhoriy Pivtorak|date=2025|url=https://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Pivtorak_Hryhorii/UkrainiansBelarusiansRussiansThreePeoplesThreePaths_anhl.pdf?PHPSESSID=9prdav18tpl6m8v1p8f7317351|page=7}}</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. The Historian Hryhoriy Pivtorak claims that: "On 22 October 1721, Peter I renamed his state Tsardom of Moscow to the Russian Empire and its inhabitants Muscovites to Russians".<ref>{{cite book|title=Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians: Three Peoples, Three Paths|author=Hryhoriy Pivtorak|date=2025|url=https://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Pivtorak_Hryhorii/UkrainiansBelarusiansRussiansThreePeoplesThreePaths_anhl.pdf?PHPSESSID=9prdav18tpl6m8v1p8f7317351|page=7}}</ref>

Critics regard it as a failed state and puppet regime<ref>When a [[nation state]] cannot pay for its 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. In 2015 it was rated as the most [[corrupt]] government in [[Europe]] due to corruption from Yanukovych holdovers; former President Yanukovych now being sheltered from accountability in Russia.<ref>Bullough, O. (2015, February 6). "[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-most-corrupt-nation-in-europe-ukraine Welcome to Ukraine, the Most Corrupt Nation in Europe.]" ''The Guardian.''</ref> After the [[violent]] [[coup]] organized, financed, and supported by the [[Obama/Biden administration]] in 2014, the Ukrainian regime became openly [[fascist]] and [[xenophobic]]. On the first day after the coup, the [[CIA]] and [[MI6]] formed a partnership with the [[intelligence agencies]] in Ukraine, which were rebuilt from scratch to be used as a partner against [[Russia]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin], Feb 2 1015, ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> 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]]" since Neonazis have used the symbol.<ref name=AntiTerror>[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 uses the symbol in reference to its historical kinship with Kievan Rus' which used it as Coat of Arms and in the coins which have been found by archeologists.<ref name=KievanRusCoins>[https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-of-the-kievan-rus.394099/ Coins of the Kievan Rus]</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 regard it as a failed state and puppet regime<ref>When a [[nation state]] cannot pay for its 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. In 2015 it was rated as the most [[corrupt]] government in [[Europe]] due to corruption from Yanukovych holdovers; former President Yanukovych now being sheltered from accountability in Russia.<ref>Bullough, O. (2015, February 6). "[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-most-corrupt-nation-in-europe-ukraine Welcome to Ukraine, the Most Corrupt Nation in Europe.]" ''The Guardian.''</ref> After the [[violent]] [[coup]] organized, financed, and supported by the [[Obama/Biden administration]] in 2014, the Ukrainian regime became openly [[fascist]] and [[xenophobic]]. On the first day after the coup, the [[CIA]] and [[MI6]] formed a partnership with the [[intelligence agencies]] in Ukraine, which were rebuilt from scratch to be used as a partner against [[Russia]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin], Feb 2 1015, ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> 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]]" since Neo-nazis have used the symbol.<ref name=AntiTerror>[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 uses the symbol in reference to its historical kinship with Kievan Rus' which used it as Coat of Arms and in the coins which have been found by archaeologists.<ref name=KievanRusCoins>[https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-of-the-kievan-rus.394099/ Coins of the Kievan Rus]</ref> Ukraine is one of Europe's most notorious human and child trafficking 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>

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".   

Post World War I, Ukraine consisted of many nationalities, linguistic, and religious groups<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080418030322/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-30078/Ukraine Interwar Soviet Ukraine], ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.</ref> with "ethnic Ukrainians" only dominating the western regions. Ukrainian nationalists led a wholesale [[genocide]] against Poles, Gypsies, Jews, and Russians residing in those same territories under Nazi tutelage during World War II. Many Ukrainian Nazis were resettled in Canada and the United States to avoid prosecution for [[war crime]]s. The Ukrainian diaspora community residing in [[North America]] became the core anti-Soviet and anti-Russian resistance organized by the [[CIA]] after 1947. The people who spoke the borderlands dialect of Russian, one of many groups occupying the borderlands, previously were known as Galicians.   

Post World War I, Ukraine consisted of many nationalities, linguistic, and religious groups<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080418030322/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-30078/Ukraine Interwar Soviet Ukraine], ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.</ref> with "ethnic Ukrainians" only dominating the western regions. Ukrainian nationalists led a wholesale [[genocide]] against Poles, Gypsies, Jews, and Russians residing in those same territories under Nazi tutelage during World War II. Many Ukrainian Nazis were resettled in Canada and the United States to avoid prosecution for [[war crime]]s. The Ukrainian diaspora community residing in [[North America]] became the core anti-Soviet and anti-Russian resistance organized by the [[CIA]] after 1947. The people who spoke the borderlands dialect of Russian, one of many groups occupying the borderlands, previously were known as Galicians.   

The territories were ceded to Germany by [[Lenin]] and [[Trotsky]] after the [[October Revolution]] in 1917, were non-aligned after the French and [[Angelo-American powers]] redrew the map and stiped Germany of its territorial possessions at the [[Treaty of Versailles]] in 1919, a Bolshevik Republic from 1922 to 1941,<ref>[https://dzen.ru/media/id/5f073d34db00016bd74b3365/kak-unr-plavno-uvelichilas-do-ussr-6309bf75f90f894d66c1b6ce HOW UKRAINIAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC BECAME UKRAINIAN SSR], Yuri Turkul, 29 August 2022.</ref> a Nazi ally from 1941 to 1944, and again an independent Soviet Republic from 1944 to 1991 with a seat in the [[United Nations]] General Assembly. By the 21st century, Ukraine had no independent history or literature of its own outside of the [[Russian World]].

The territories were ceded to Germany by [[Lenin]] and [[Trotsky]] after the [[October Revolution]] in 1917, were non-aligned after the French and [[Angelo-American powers]] redrew the map and stripped Germany of its territorial possessions at the [[Treaty of Versailles]] in 1919, a Bolshevik Republic from 1922 to 1941,<ref>[https://dzen.ru/media/id/5f073d34db00016bd74b3365/kak-unr-plavno-uvelichilas-do-ussr-6309bf75f90f894d66c1b6ce HOW UKRAINIAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC BECAME UKRAINIAN SSR], Yuri Turkul, 29 August 2022.</ref> a Nazi ally from 1941 to 1944, and again an independent Soviet Republic from 1944 to 1991 with a seat in the [[United Nations]] General Assembly. By the 21st century, Ukraine had no independent history or literature of its own outside of the [[Russian World]].

[[File:Einsatzgruppen 1941-1944.PNG|right|300px|thumb|The mobile [[German]] ''[[Einsatzgruppen]]'' death squads were assisted by local Ukrainians who identified their Jewish neighbors and assisted in the mass killings.<ref>[https://ukrainianjewishencounter.org/en/the-ukrainian-auxiliary-police-in-kyiv-and-adjacent-areas-pt-1-formation-and-activities/ The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in Kyiv and Adjacent Areas, pt. 1: Formation and Activities], June 24th, 2024. Daniil Sytnyk. ukrainianjewishencounter.org</ref>]]

[[File:Einsatzgruppen 1941-1944.PNG|right|300px|thumb|The mobile [[German]] ''[[Einsatzgruppen]]'' death squads were assisted by local Ukrainians who identified their Jewish neighbors and assisted in the mass killings.<ref>[https://ukrainianjewishencounter.org/en/the-ukrainian-auxiliary-police-in-kyiv-and-adjacent-areas-pt-1-formation-and-activities/ The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in Kyiv and Adjacent Areas, pt. 1: Formation and Activities], June 24th, 2024. Daniil Sytnyk. ukrainianjewishencounter.org</ref>]]

Of the 50 million plus lives lost in [[World War II]], at least 30 million of various ethnicities came from, or will killed in, the territories of the borderlands, or "Ukraine". World War II was principally fought in Ukraine, and not in [[France]] or [[Belgium]] or in the skies over [[Great Britain]]. The war set neighbor against neighbor, with local Ukrainian, Lithuanian and [[Baltic group|Baltic]] [[partisan]] groups fighting with the Nazis against local Russian, Belarussian and other partisan resistance groups defending themselves from Nazi aggression. While the German [[SS]] overlords implemented [[Hitler]]'s policy of extermination, it was Ukrainian and [[Lithuanian]] collaborators who did much of the dirty work in fingering their neighboring [[Jews]] and assisting in executions.   

Of the 50 million plus lives lost in [[World War II]], at least 30 million of various ethnicities came from, or will killed in, the territories of the borderlands, or "Ukraine". World War II was principally fought in Ukraine, and not in [[France]] or [[Belgium]] or in the skies over [[Great Britain]]. The war set neighbor against neighbor, with local Ukrainian, Lithuanian and [[Baltic group|Baltic]] [[partisan]] groups fighting with the Nazis against local Russian, Belarussian and other partisan resistance groups defending themselves from Nazi aggression. While the German [[SS]] overlords implemented [[Hitler]]'s policy of extermination, it was Ukrainian and [[Lithuanian]] collaborators who did much of the dirty work in fingering their neighboring [[Jews]] and assisting in executions.