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Feb 12, 2022 · Since breaking from the Soviet Union, Ukraine has wavered between the influences of Moscow and the West, surviving scandal and conflict with its democracy intact. Now it faces its biggest test as...
- Becky Sullivan
Feb 14, 2023 · Updated. Last updated February 14, 2023 7:00 am (EST) Summary. Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has set alight the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II. A former...
May 25, 2023 · Ukraine was tightly connected to the Russian cultural, economic, and political spheres when it was part of the Soviet Union, but the Ukrainian language, cultural, and political structures always existed in spite of Soviet efforts to repress them.
Mar 15, 2022 · During the Soviet era, Ukraine faced horrors both deliberately created and accidentally caused, including the Holodomor under Joseph Stalin’s regime and successive invasions during World War Two. Ukraine emerged from the collapse of the USSR having to carve out its own future in Europe.
Feb 22, 2022 · Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union before it collapsed at the end of the Cold War in 1991, and it borders Russia to its east. Mr. Putin has described Russians and Ukrainians as “one...
May 6, 2023 · With its wide, sweeping, fertile plains, Ukraine would become known as the breadbasket of the Soviet Union, providing grain and food that made it an invaluable part of the USSR. That fact only made what happened next all the more shocking.
Feb 25, 2022 · In that sense, Ukraine was created by the Soviet Union. There are three terribly wrong things about this argument. No. 1, the Soviet Union is not the same thing as Russia.
