🇺🇦Do language and history matter with this attack?🇷🇺
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Top Map is the area Russia currently controls
Bottom map shows the predominant language in each area of Ukraine.
Below are some interesting fact bulleted out to provide a little more context.
Historically, the land known as Ukraine has always been a fault line between East and West, one that is always simmering and periodically boils over into violence
Ukraine has only been an independent nation since 1991 but the history of this land around Kiev holds all the characteristics of a killing field. Part of the problem is a familiar one: You have three people groups who are all related but do not like or trust each other, yet found themselves forced to live together in a single nation after the fall of the Soviet Empire. No house divided against itself can stand. Not for long.
The first are central Ukrainians who are neutral and have mixed feelings about both the West and Russia, most of them speak Russian.
The second group are southern and eastern Ukrainians who speak Russian and consider themselves to be Russian mostly. They live in Odessa, Crimea, Donbas and Kharkov.
Millions of Russian-speaking Ukrainians were killed by western Ukrainians during Hitler occupation of Ukraine.
The third and smallest group are western Ukrainians, who are extremely Russophobe and have their center in Lvov, and they are not Orthodox. They are mostly Roman Catholics Uniates or Latin Rite, and they do not speak Russian. They speak Ukrainian, which is so similar to Russian that many think it is more a matter of different dialects. These western Ukrainians are mostly leftovers from once powerful Poland that competed with Russia for control of Ukraine.
During the Second World War, Western Ukrainians for various reasons joined Hitler to fight the USSR, and to this day, Western Ukraine remains a lair of neo-Nazism and Banderism (named after Bandera, the Ukrainian Nazi leader).
The new pro-Western government that was established in 2014, has banned Russian language in public and has unleashed neo-Nazi Banderists across Kiev, and Russian-speaking Eastern and Southern Ukraine. They even managed to burn 39 Russian-Ukrainians alive in Odessa’s Trade Union Hall. These events triggered a war in eastern Donbas region and led to Crimea’s separation.
☝️All Three have been at war for the past 8 years killing 14,000 people, mostly Russian speaking civilians.☝️
🇺🇦Do language and history matter with this attack?🇷🇺
🇺🇦Do language and history matter with this attack?🇷🇺
🇺🇦Do language and history matter with this attack?🇷🇺
Caption this Photo in the comments!
Top Map is the area Russia currently controls
Bottom map shows the predominant language in each area of Ukraine.
Below are some interesting fact bulleted out to provide a little more context.
Historically, the land known as Ukraine has always been a fault line between East and West, one that is always simmering and periodically boils over into violence
Ukraine has only been an independent nation since 1991 but the history of this land around Kiev holds all the characteristics of a killing field. Part of the problem is a familiar one: You have three people groups who are all related but do not like or trust each other, yet found themselves forced to live together in a single nation after the fall of the Soviet Empire. No house divided against itself can stand. Not for long.
The first are central Ukrainians who are neutral and have mixed feelings about both the West and Russia, most of them speak Russian.
The second group are southern and eastern Ukrainians who speak Russian and consider themselves to be Russian mostly. They live in Odessa, Crimea, Donbas and Kharkov.
Millions of Russian-speaking Ukrainians were killed by western Ukrainians during Hitler occupation of Ukraine.
The third and smallest group are western Ukrainians, who are extremely Russophobe and have their center in Lvov, and they are not Orthodox. They are mostly Roman Catholics Uniates or Latin Rite, and they do not speak Russian. They speak Ukrainian, which is so similar to Russian that many think it is more a matter of different dialects. These western Ukrainians are mostly leftovers from once powerful Poland that competed with Russia for control of Ukraine.
During the Second World War, Western Ukrainians for various reasons joined Hitler to fight the USSR, and to this day, Western Ukraine remains a lair of neo-Nazism and Banderism (named after Bandera, the Ukrainian Nazi leader).
The new pro-Western government that was established in 2014, has banned Russian language in public and has unleashed neo-Nazi Banderists across Kiev, and Russian-speaking Eastern and Southern Ukraine. They even managed to burn 39 Russian-Ukrainians alive in Odessa’s Trade Union Hall. These events triggered a war in eastern Donbas region and led to Crimea’s separation.
☝️All Three have been at war for the past 8 years killing 14,000 people, mostly Russian speaking civilians.☝️