In all the wise commentary on the Russia-Ukraine tragic situation, I have seen few observations that 20th-century Ukraine, despite the achievements -- cultural, economic (to name a few) of the talented, resourceful, and politically oppressed people (oppressed by various regimes, stretching back historically to at least the Austro-Hungarian/Russian Empires, and including their current government) of that important historical space on our small planet -- was, geopolitically, a Soviet artificial construction, including Khrushchev making Crimea part of Ukraine in 1954. I will not repeat the history of 20th-century Soviet-created Ukraine; it is available (granted, through various interpretations, on the Internet).
Isn't ironic, therefore, that Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, reported to be nostalgic about the USSR is, in effect, further dismantling the now-defunct Soviet Union by seeking to make Soviet-constructed Ukraine/sections of Ukraine part of Russia -- in the recent past Russia being, formally at least, only a part ("Republic") of the USSR, just like the Ukraine SSR?
Is President Putin, non-"democrat" that he is, aiming to give the final blow to the Soviet "empire"?
One former Soviet republic gulping up another? Is that in the spirit of the Internationale?
Oh, before I forget, is Putin, doubtless a traitor by Soviet standards, being paid by the CIA to bring about the final dissolution of the USSR? :)
How would Stalin have reacted to Putin's moves? 1930s Moscow trials times? Or maybe he would have sent him in exile to Georgia (another SSR republic, Stalin's birthplace).
OMG! (Or, if my poor Russian serves me right, oh bozhe!)
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