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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 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]].

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 occurred essentially 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 and local Russian, Belarussian and other partisan resistance groups fighting against the Nazis. 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 occurred essentially 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.   

World War II did not end in Ukraine with the fall of [[Berlin]] and German surrender in 1945. Active resistance by nationalists against the Soviet Union continued until 1954, aided by the [[CIA]] from 1947 onward.  Unlike the more urbanized territory of [[East Germany]], the Russian and Soviet peoples never were able to fully de-Nazify the Ukrainian Nazi Galicians of the more rural areas of western Ukraine. Like modern Russians who trace their ancestry back to [[Red Army]] soldiers who defeated fascism, Ukrainian nationalists today boast of their grandfathers who collaborated with the [[Third Reich]] and resisted Soviet Communism.  Since the US-backed [[Maidan coup]] of 2014, monuments and memorials to Soviet soldiers who defeated fascism have been defaced and torn down while Ukrainian nationalists glorify their Nazi past.

World War II did not end in Ukraine with the fall of [[Berlin]] and German surrender in 1945. Active resistance by nationalists against the Soviet Union continued until 1954, aided by the [[CIA]] from 1947 onward.  Unlike the more urbanized territory of [[East Germany]], the Russian and Soviet peoples never were able to fully de-Nazify the Ukrainian Nazi Galicians of the more rural areas of western Ukraine. Like modern Russians who trace their ancestry back to [[Red Army]] soldiers who defeated fascism, Ukrainian nationalists today boast of their grandfathers who collaborated with the [[Third Reich]] and resisted Soviet Communism.  Since the US-backed [[Maidan coup]] of 2014, monuments and memorials to Soviet soldiers who defeated fascism have been defaced and torn down while Ukrainian nationalists glorify their Nazi past.