Ukraine as an excuse

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Ukraine is one of several countries in central Europe with variable borders and population (of the great Slavic branch) throughout history. Kiev, which remains its capital, was already also the capital of the old Kievan Rus (-), which extended from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south and from the Vistula River in the west to the Sea of ​​Azov in the East. And from the translation into Latin (Rus) of the name of said entity (Ру́сь) both Russia and Ruthenia derive, another of the names by which history has known the territory (or at least part of it) of current Ukraine, which It means, significantly, border land or place.

Between and , the eastern part of said territory was annexed to the Principality of Moscow, later the Russian Tsardom from , and finally the Russian Empire in While the western part ended up Algeria Email List forming part of the Kingdom of the Two Nations (Lithuania and Poland), of which is also part of the Catholic Cossack Hetmanate, both absorbed in by the Russian Empire under the name of Russia Minor or Little Russia. In , the Russian Empire forced the Ottoman Empire to grant independence to the Crimean Khanate, which entered into a civil war between pro-Ottomans and pro-Russians, a circumstance that the Russian Empire took advantage of to annex it in  years would have to pass before, on the occasion of the Russian Revolution of February-October , its subsequent civil war and the revolutionaries' commitment to the "liberation of the people", a nationalist outbreak appeared in Ukraine.



In February , the Kiev Parliament (Central Rada) announced the founding of a new State, the Ukrainian People's Republic, which, after four years of civil and anti-Russian war  will be incorporated into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR) as Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR). Without Crimea, which is voluntarily attached to the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic (Russian SSR). In February , as part of the de-Stalination of the Ukrainian Nikita Khrushchev and to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav (, by which the tsar agreed to protect the Cossack Hetmanate), the Russian SSR ceded to the Soviet SSR. Ukraine the Crimean peninsula, culturally more than Russian.