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Thanks for the link and for the video. I am curious though about one for a while now after seeing ten historical cities that were ruined. One was Warsaw I read that 90% or so of the cit pay was destroyed during ww2. Is it possible for you to make a video about its reconstruction after the war?
in 1992 My uncle bought a whole complete steel factory from Ukraine for just $120,000 and brought in to Turkey. The actual value of the factory was more than $10 million. After soviet collapse the whole Ukraine industry vanished in few years.
Yes and no. Our production lines was very close linked to other new country's. We produced what can be called old junk and with no experience how to upgrade or will to change( yes allot of directors of factory's don't want to try something new) well results was bad.....
@@Denis_Komarrov thats the results of communist regime. communist businesses and industries are notorious for their aversion of new tries, which is the essence of modern commerce.
The one-sided attention given to Ukraine while Afghanistan is in the midst of a looming famine is just disgusting. Prime example of how a white country is valued more than non white..
@@skyhappy stop doing this whataboutism crap. BOTH MATTER. nobody said they did not. i guarentee you can find thousands of sources covering the afghan food security if you actually look. some examples are from youtube, BBC news, reuters, ITV news, ABC news, CNN, the gravel institute, Euronews, France24 english, the intercept, ect. all of which have multiple videos and articles covering afghanistan. DO SOME BLOODY RESEARCH
this attention to Afghanistan while war in Sudan breaks out again is disgusting. We ignore African conflicts while giving attention to those of indo-european speakers 🤢
Not sure if your comment is one of play or scuffle but the war right now is one of survival of the state and Ukrainian citizens within it and not independence. Ukraine had another murderous Kremlin demon do the same thing just by designed famine. ok I done I didn't know really what to make of your comment so assumed it was of a mocking nature so felt compelled to reply my opinion is all.
@@oO-_-_-_-Oo Golodomor was not only in Ukraine but also in Russia and Kazahstan. Main architects of it were Stalin and Beria and Kaganovich. None of them is Russian.
@@WP-cu2pf nice try, tovarisch. You forgot to mention the fact that these Russian lands were Ukrainian and German back then. These 3 nations were punished for being unloyal to Soviet Union. Unlike russians.
I second this. Kazakhstan is uniquely fascinating and some focus could be on the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Semipalatinsk and nuclear history, Aral and Caspian seas, the capital, and the Silk Road both old and new.
Kazakhstan is considered the most modernised country in central Asia and compared to Russia from what I've heard. Nazarbaryev sending Kazahks to Western universities and successfully attracting foreign investment. I once watched a documentary in which even a Kazakh human rights activist who criticised the president admitted that despite this he were a good president.
History feels so different, when you were alive at the time happening. I was born 1998. Feels so strange to see the 2000s and 2010s on a history channel
The one-sided attention given to Ukraine while Afghanistan is in the midst of a looming famine is just disgusting. Prime example of how a white country is valued more than non white. .
@@robertshonk518It's not a tree, Its a funeral wreath (often used in Ukraine instead of funeral flowers). On cementary it's easy to see which tomb is fresh because you won't be able to see tomb itself under piles of these things
You should have mentioned the fact that Ukraine did also vote in a referendum to join the new Union of sovereign states that was proposed by Gorbachev. The USS would have been a reformed USSR with more autonomy and rights for the smaller states. This doesn't invalidate the independence referendum later or suggest that Ukraine wanted to stay united with Russia but it might suggest that the push to independence was not inevitable and that Yeltsin and the Hardlines with despite differing interests pushed things towards a certain destiny.
This is actually a huge detail that I don't think anyone ever talks about, which leads to a puzzled reaction as to why in March of 1991 Ukraine voted to preserve the USSR and in December it voted in the support of independence, which is frequently used by Russia in a greater narrative of not considering Ukraine a legitimate state (it was all rigged/staged by [insert someone you hate here]/your own version of why Ukraine is not a country). When in March the people of the Soviet Union were asked a question "Do you consider necessary the preservation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal **sovereign** republics in which the rights and freedom of an individual of any ethnicity will be fully guaranteed?" the question explicitly asked if you support Ukrainian sovereignty, which if you read the 1990 declaration essentially makes Ukraine independent in all but name, with independent economic policy, independent military, priority of the republican laws over the union ones etc. No wonder Ukrainians said Yes
Actually, this was made to look like there would be reformed USSR, just to trick Gorbachev to resign peacefully (who ended up the only person in soviet goverment with somewhat power) and dissolve the USSR officially. In the end, even russian president have no interest in keeping USSR alive, and Yeltsin was for russia independence from USSR all along, not eveb be said about other countries like Ukraine and Belarus
@@CraftDayFriends Well what happened between March and December in 1991? August, and the attempted coup. For anyone who was alive then, and saw those grey figures of Yanayev's gang on TV it is really not surprising at all that any part of the Soviet Union that could easily/legally divorce itself from Moscow would choose to do so.
@@Asptuber легально не одна часть ссср не могла отделится от ссср все референдумы были не законны с точки зрения конституции ссср проводившие их были государственными преступниками
Ukraine had 52 million ppl in 1991 when it became independent. It had 41 milion including Donetsk and Lugansk republics in 2021(who had around 3,7 milion together). That's minus of 14 milion ppl in just 30 yrs due to emigration and low birth rate and politics. Meanwhile Russian population was 148 milion in 1989 and now is almost 147 milion.
@@johnl.7754 No, in 1989. Russia had 147 milion ppl,in 2021. it has 146. Russia has very small economic diaspora in West compared to other non western European countries and when we look at population size of Russia.
You haven’t yet talked about what happened between 2014 and 2022 with regards to Ukraine? What other events besides the fall of Viktor Yanukovich led to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
Yeah, there seems to be a huge void in Western Media coverage of this particular 8yrs, but why? Other than those "nasty Russians" turning up to "steal Crimea" from the Ukrainians, what else has been happening? Oh yeah, and the two breakaway Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk doing just that, breaking away, like what ELSE has happened?? The dearth of information in the West is very telling, wouldn't you say??
What a wonderful documentary, especially loved the part where Janukovytš was assaulted by that ornamental spruce. I wish that Russia's attempts to interfere in Ukraine's internal policies would have stayed at that level of slapstick. But alas... Thank you for this and all other videos you make. Also great cause for donations.
Maidan 2 was also assembled when the police beat the protesters for the official reason for putting up a Christmas tree. This is a funeral wreath made of a spruce, such a symbol.
As a Ukrainian, that background music perfectly fits the atmosphere with which the events are seen today by some. Calm, solemn, serene yet all-pervadingly grand. Hearing about the events for the hundreth time still fills you with an unmistakeable and indescribable spirit. Being a simple, average single person in that time instead of seeing these events from a bird's eye view. You're still living at what seems like the peak of civilization when compared with global standards, and yet, every tiny little minute thing is breaking apart, torn by grand forces. The current events aren't something that came suddenly. There just is a limit on how much hardship people could bear, no matter how strong the slogans. It all comes back around in one way or another, just that sometimes it can be diverted and dissipated. When the events are so important that all of this becomes a real and valid historical factor, as importanf as any, that means you're living in one of the most unique times of history, the period after the dissolution of the USSR, the infamous 90s every person born afterwards, including myself, no matter how far gone, knows exactly how lucky they are to have missed
Also, in 1990-1991 as part of the Gorbachov Perestroika, there was an idea of restructuring the Soviet Union into something like a confederation know as the Novo-Ogaryovo process about the new Soviet Union Treaty. The whole process triggered the event know as the parade of sovereinties which include proclamation of sovereignty from the Soviet Union of all union republics including the Russian Federation.
I've watched many YT videos on East Europe, USSR, Baltics, Balkans, etc. over the past 3 years. Even though I lived through all of this, and it was reported in our USA media, I never fully understood what was going on until now.Thank You 'The Cold War' et al.
About languages law by Yanukovych, he allowed the use of other than Ukraininan language for officials. The protests were about introducing the Russian language among officials and nothing to do with the use of language in private life.
18:44 Would this Timoshenko have any relation to Semyon Timoshenko, a Marshal of the the Soviet Union who was also a senior Red Army officer when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941?
Nah, just a coincidence. She took her husband's name, his father was some nomenklatura guy of the same second name born in 1935, but not related to Marshal Timoshenko.
Scrolling TH-cam at 9am as its benefits in catching this upload right away! Ready to enjoy this with my coffee ☕. Thank you for all that you bring us! #ProjectUkraine is an amazing initiative the propaganda coming out of this war is like I've never seen in my lifetime, and I look forward to learning more about creators with great values and knowledge!
What a really fun n interesting history Ukraine has had over the years. I hope it gets a bit more peaceful after the war is over. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
Actually there is an interesting fact about this: some scholars argue whether Poland or Canada was the first country as it happened at the same time but these countries are in different time zones.
It’s too bad Ukraine didn’t follow the rest of the former Soviet Union countries and joined NATO back then. If they had they wouldn’t be having problems with Russia right now.
Perhaps the USSR should have made a slow transition to capitalism instead of falling apart. Their leaders should have used the Nordic countries as an example.
Wonder what deal Soviet Russia offered after 91'... Because when you looked at Germany in the 70s with east & west. 5 different brands of coffee in the west but only 1 in the east...
You think of Russia as having a rough time in the 90s, but it sounds like Ukraine may have had it even worse. The big difference between the two countries is that Ukraine didn't let one bad decade dampen their desire for democracy and a civil society.
Oliver Stone's "Revealing Ukraine" documentary says Ukraine left the USSR with good industrial infrastructure that made them successful in the 1990's. Then the EU and US stepped in and slowly contracted the market they could sell their goods to, forcing them to buy the goods they used to make and driving them into debt, depression and social unrest.
Well... Infrastructure was good on paper but every man past 30 would say you that USSR mass-produced low-end shit that was also hard to obtain. In literally every industry from Electronics to Clothes. USSR industry somehow managed to unable to manage inner demands without any real amount of exports... When borders are opened to products much cheaper and available, industry just naturally collapsed in every instance where it couldn't compete with foreign ones
Looking forward to this Channel will discuss. Vietnam Afghanistan Africa and Israel and the Arab and Afghanistan and the Middle East, also China and India Wars. Until the very end of the Cold War for the last war and the end, of what happened after that. And the situation after the Cold War. These are all the most impressive topics, that could be discussed about the Cold War. About the wars between the Cold Wars! This is the most iconic thing that can be discussed. In connection with the Cold War! What to discuss!
An understandable but unfortunate mistake - George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush were not “Senior” and “Junior”. The only “Senior” and “Junior” in recent US History were Albert W. Gore Sr. (a segregationist) and Albert W. Gore Jr. Otherwise, excellent presentation as usual, David.
My grandma saved quite large amount of money (unfortunately don't remember how much, i'll edit comment if I visit my parents and don't forget to ask them) every month for 20 years in order to give them to my father once he get married. When he finally did, Soviet Union collapsed, money were worth nothing and when they received that money (they were moderately poor at the time) they were only able to buy only 2 boxes of matches, they cried a lot then. However nobody misses Soviet Union in my family.
It is thoroughly insane that post-Soviet people who were nostalgic for communism ever thoughtt that that Moscow government would ever be interested in restoring that system in any way. Putin practically worships the fascist philosopher Ivan Ilyin.
Yeah but Crimea had a lot of Russians because Stalin deported Tatars in Crimea in the 40s in boxcars in the dead of winter and sent them to Siberia and then brought in Russians. Same as they are doing now as they are kicking out Tatars and Ukrainians and bringing in Russians to Crimea
Also, a lot of Russians were brought into Ukraine after the Holodomor famine (Genocide). The Kulaks were sent to camps and there was noone left to tend to the fields or work in the mines
Ukraine during Nazi occupation. What did the Ukrainians do with there jews? Please make a video, the world would love to know about a dark past in which Ukrainian jews suffered exterminations not by Germans but by fellow Ukrainians working with Germans.
As a Ukrainian, I'd say that better Cold War Ukrainian topic would be Petro Shelest. Man managed to be respected by both dissidents and communists. He was considered to be Ukrainian nationalist and Stalinist at the same time. I'd argue, that his policies towards economic sovereignty of UkrSSR had directly caused independence. Another interesting topic is Dviykari - democratic faction of OUN, but it can be more obscure in English.
After the fall of their economy, people started having "the grass is always greener on the other side". It's no wonder people started longing for the days of the Soviet Union and communism.
Holo-doh-bar wtf? Is the correct pronunciation of holodomor really that hard for you or is more important that your editor cuts in those stupid side angle camera views?
The sign at 11:09 says, according to Google Translate, "Kravchuk, stop leading your people to 1933!" Chilling sign given what happened then in Ukraine.
There was a Referendum in Carpathia Ruthenia too (1991 Transcarpathian general regional referendum ) To get Autonomy from Ukraine but Kyjev rejected it.
Good. You can't just vote yourself out of a country to secede. Countries exist for a reason. You need consent from the entire country. Which makes South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Nagorno Karabakh, DPR, and LPR illegal states.
@@f-86zoomer37 WHAT about Kosovo !!! Now there is second biggest USA military base in Europe called Camp Bondsteel . In this corrupt mafia fake nonsense called kosovo...
@@f-86zoomer37 I'm not saying about them,I'm saying about Transcarpathia. Hungarians live on only on small part of Transcarpathia on border with HU. Meanwhile, Ukrainians/Rusyns in Transcarpathia voted to have autonomy but to remain in Ukraine.
Crimea was never tied to Ukraine. It was won over by Cathrine the great from the ottoman empire, and it was only part of Ukraine ssr and was not gifted to Ukraine. The people there don't have any deep ties to ukraine and if you believe in self determination you should believe in Russian crimea.
And yet Crimean Tatars who are the actual indigenous people of Crimea have said they want to be part of Ukraine not Russia but sure. The only reason Russians are there is because that imperialist shithole kicked out crimeans and put Russians there.
Wow - so close to NATO and EU membership except that Western Europe relied on energy from Russia and didn't want to make Moscow angry. A former US President warned Western Europe about reliance on Putin for energy.
It’s SO funny to hear the statement that a government, like Ukraine’s, couldn’t get the market working. When it’s the go that’s the problem. All you have to do is remove government and the economy with flourish!!! 😂 😂
The corruption issue makes me think of 1 Timothy 6:9-10a (ESV) from the Bible: "But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils." Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)
Ukraine proclaimed its soveirnity a few days later after it was done so by the Russian Federation that also proclaimed its sovereignty from the Soviet Union. Please note this.
Really interesting videos I’ve been watching your videos for about a year or so now and I’m very happy to see you part of this group supporting Ukraine now 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🔱☯️ Good job
Thanks for covering Sevastopol, histories of this are absolutely worthless without the status of Sevastopol discussed clearly. The Black Sea Fleet Partition Treaty, the Kharkiv Pact after that treaty was broken, George W Bush's breaking of NPT which also broke the Budapest Memorandum even if Orange Revolution & Maidan did not... This is Russia's case that USA and Ukraine break treaties willfully and directly seeking destabilization of long standing security arrangements. Never in history did Kyiv control Sevastopol port. Ukraine still vows to invade Sevastopol and will continue to shrink until that ceases or it ceases to exist as a state. It's utter madness and if they had tried this in 1991 they would just have lost a war THEN. Offering Sevastopol to NATO in 2002 is pretty much the whole cause of the present war. It's not just a redline for Russia but a causus belli for nuclear war, since they view a US nuclear sub base in Sevastopol to be intended strictly to nuke Moscow on so little notice the Russians could not respond. imho Kuchma was a criminal who created an oligarchy and Ukraine simply ceased to exist as a country during his 11 years... Poroshenko was literally genocidal in Donbas. It's a failed state quite similar to the USA or UK which chooses war & money laundering over basic social and medical welfare of the population. And which uses its constitution - or lack of same - to break international obligations and export lethal risks to the world, rally support for these corrupt causes, and selectively call countries democratic based on its narrow current interests. Thus making rules based international order impossible, and in the long run empowering BRICS over G7.
EVERY SINGLE WORD A NAZI RUSSIAN LIE/DEFAMATION. BUT YOU SPEAK INTO THE WIND OF TRUTH and all your GENOCIDAL EXCREMENT LIES ARE BLOWING BACK ALL OVER YOUR FACE AND OVER THOSE OF THE RUSSIAN NAZI PEOPLE. Cr Hu = SHAMELESS GENOCIDAL NAZI RUSSIAN EXCREMENT IN PSEUDO-HUMAN FORM spewing HITLER'S/ PUTIN'S /RUSSIA'S SHAMELESS TOTAL LIES TO PUSH FOR the GENOCIDE of the UKRAINIAN people. BUT THIS Cr Hu /NAZI RUSSIAN EXCREMENT WILL INDEED BE FLUSHED AWAY DOWN INTO THE DEMONIC CESSPOOL where it belongs
The problem for Ukraine (and the world) has been the imperialism and arrogance of the Soviets/Russian government. The crimes of the Russian Communist revolution and it's support of dictators worldwide, including Hitler and Mao, have never been addressed by the world. Left unpunished after WWII, Russia continued the atrocities against E. Europe, and again with more unprovoked wars against it's neighbors in this century as well. As many European countries have decided that making money with a criminal dictator is acceptable, why should we be surprised that Russia is again killing it's neighbors.
There was no mention of the 2003 Tuzla conflict. It can be said that this is the first attempt by the Russian Federation to occupy Ukrainian land in the 21st century. Tuzla Island is an administrative part of Crimea, now there is a bridge across it. Kuchma stopped the conflict by saying through non-official channels that "I will now remove you all with artillery" and it worked, it's a pity that I didn't remove it, maybe it would solve future problems at the very beginning, or vice versa, it would have done worse. Russia was weak, she "won" the war in Chechnya, so she paid tribute and was completely incompetent. Kuchma is a very controversial president, he wanted the best for the country, but he always succeeded by half, he defended Tuzla at gunpoint, but only postponed the problem for 10 years. Defended the Zmiinyi Island (Snake Island yes it where "russian warship nahuy") by winning the lawsuit against Romania, but lost the waters around it. Cleaned up part of the Danube so that you could swim along the Ukrainian part and got a huge scandal from environmentalists, both foreign and Ukrainian. He tried very hard to save the space program, he was a rocket developer and loved them very much, but in fact, without letting her die, he destroyed her future by cooperating with Russia. Well, I won’t say anything good about the murder of a journalist and an attempt to fake the elections, but he realized that he had no support, he had to retire and forbade it, unlike Yanukovych PS An interesting fact until 2004 in the Ukrainian language orange commonly used hot yellow "жовтогарячий". Russian propaganda said that the Americans sent oranges filled with drugs to the protesters. And in mockery of Russian propaganda, we began to use the word "orange" orange more often than hot yellow. Unfortunately, we did not understand how strong Russian propaganda is.
Unfortunately the South and Eastern Ukraine dragged you guys into this. These people should literally be deported and jailed for being traitors. More living space for real Ukrainians.
@@f-86zoomer37 I agree, we need an institution of non-citizens, we needed it immediately after the collapse of the USSR, but unfortunately then there was no possibility. Now there is more than that it is necessary or a pause of citizens. As for imprisonment and deportation, it’s more difficult here, without a doubt, all militants and collaborators should be imprisoned, but only foreign citizens can be deported according to the law. I myself was born and raised in Makeevka, this is the agglomeration of Donetsk. Quite a lot of boys and girls from Donbass have shown themselves best in battles for all these 8 years and now. I'm a little ashamed of their background, I'm a medical design engineer. So that you understand, I went to a kindergarten with the Ukrainian language, there were 7 or 8 of them per 500 thousand of the population, and there was only one school with the Ukrainian language of instruction, and in other schools there was Ukrainian, but it was used only in the classes of the Ukrainian language and literature. I did not get into a school with Ukrainian teaching because there were not enough places on the lists. The situation itself was literally the reason why he died, my distant relative Valery Marchenko in the Ukrainian SSR, he demanded in his article that they stop closing Ukrainian schools. According to the constitution of the Ukrainian SSR. It was because of this that he was imprisoned where he fell ill and was not treated, and then he was imprisoned for the 2nd time and then he already died. In Ukraine they say (The poor are stupid, the stupid are poor). Ukraine as a country has made many mistakes, for example, the judge who killed Valery gave the highest reward to the judges of "Yaroslav the Wise" after 2014. And most importantly, it did not reform the education system in 90s and left the Soviet one only by changing its name. Сollaborators be punished, but there are a lot of people out there who were too poor or stupid to leave. In Ukraine, the climate is such that in summer it can be +35, and in winter -25. Being homeless is potentially deadly. Some people are still transmitting information from there, and we have detailed lists of everyone who collaborated with the occupiers, who secretly resisted. But those who did not oppose really should not be citizens until a full-fledged check and until they pass the exams in the Ukrainian language, but they cannot be deported. Yes, it was possible to obtain Ukrainian citizenship without knowing the language until 07/16/2021, now this has finally been changed. For example, I passed Ukrainian on A- although I studied at a school with the Russian language of teaching and at our school there were those who simply could not pass the exam and some more people passed the exam, they could translate from Ukrainian into Russian but not from Russian into Ukrainian. It's about the same as my English level. Many people simply could not afford to become real Ukrainians. There were no Ukrainian schools in Mykolayiv until 1998, 7 years of independence. And they lived, but now Nikolaev is a real fortress which does not allow the enemy to pass, repairs equipment, and treats wounded. Until 2014, Ukraine developed as a state very slowly and only the threat of occupation revived the process.
@@Leo-yr5jb By the way what is the general opinion of Azov in Ukraine? Here in the US, we are very supportive of Azov probably because the some parts of the media has portrayed them as being a very effective fighting force, while other sides of the media called them Nazis. I recently attended a rally in support of the Azov battalion in New York City. But I don't think they are Nazis. They are helping a lot of people. They are defending all Ukrainians whether they are Jews or Christians or non religious, and they are still to this day bravely resisting the Putin orc invaders in Mariupol. Mariupol will be an unfortunate defeat for Ukraine, but the bravery of Azov fighters will never be forgotten.
@@f-86zoomer37 Azov Nazis is Russian propaganda. I knew one guy from Azov before the 2014 war, but I am more familiar with the Dnipro regiment, I was a student in the city of Dnipro in 2014-2016. I’ll start from the beginning Azov was formed entirely from volunteers and many of these volunteers were from the Donbass, but there was already a non-regular volunteer regiment Donbass, because they took the name of the Sea and the fortress founded by the Cossacks, now it is not far from Mariupol in Russia. Precisely because they are especially motivated and they know the people and the area very well. Actually accusations are not unfounded, but are absolutely exaggerated. At the very beginning of 2014, there were several skinheads there. The problem is that Donbass is the most criminal part of Ukraine, there are many reasons and mostly connected with Russia, and we had a lot of gopniks (you can google it) and they were opposed by punks and skinheads, goths. In fact, for a teenager to feel safe, one had to always sit on one's own street or join one of the groups, or one must have an evil reputation. For example, I had a reputation as an athlete and I severely beat and frightened the gopniks who before that had me robbery for 5-6 dollars and a hat. Because of the big crime, the police did not pay attention to the small one. (When they kill then come) Because of my reputation, I could come to the party of any of the groups and therefore I saw the situation from different angles. There were also gangs of Tatars and Greeks, but strangers did not fall into them. Well, in general, there were several skinheads there, but before the war they were skinheads supporting the unification of all Eastern Slavs. When the war began, they greatly revised their views. And then when a regular battalion was made of them, they got rid of the last dubious personalities. But the Internet remembers all the mistakes, and Russian propaganda inflates them to gigantic proportions. The symbol of their battalion is Slavic, not German, not nazy, just many centuries ago there was an Antes Union (in en wiki Antes people) There were ancestors of Czechs, Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians and partly Russians. It was from the German river Uecker to Odessa. They say the USA is a "melting pot of peoples" then Europe is soldered peoples inside everyone tries to remain themselves like copper wires around which there is lead. What is considered patriotism in the United States in Europe is terrible nationalism, and it is already convenient to call a nationalist a Nazi. For example, to obtain US citizenship, you must pass English and US history. To get Ukrainian citizenship, you had to either have Ukrainian ancestors or just live in Ukraine for 5 years, now you have to take an exam in the Ukrainian language. The Swiss are also often accused of Nazism because it is very difficult for them to obtain citizenship. That is, if you see a "Nazi" in Europe, but he does not kill unarmed people and does not call for this, then most likely he is just a patriot who considers himself a nationalist. Especially if, on the other side, an "anti-Nazi" who specifically bombs hospitals, schools and shelters where children are rescued, like in the Mariupol theater. More than 250 hospitals and 200+ schools and a huge number of houses have been destroyed in Ukraine. PS And yes, we are very worried about Azov and everyone who is there with them. The point is that if they are captured, they will definitely be tortured and threatened by civilians that they said (We held civilians hostage. We hid weapons in the hospital, the theater and there were no children or pregnant women there) I really hope that the supply of weapons will have time to reach and help to break the road to Mariupol, if not for quick de-occupation, then at least for evacuation. I do not think that the UN can help here in any way. The trip of the UN secretary to Moscow is a shame and humiliation. The only ones who could help right now are any NATO country that sent a hospital ship, the Russians would simply be afraid to shoot. They have already threatened that they will bomb the supply of weapons in Poland, but as you can see, they are scared, and shooting at the floating hospitals of NATO countries is even worse. Yes, this would not have saved the fighters of Azov, they refuse to go out without weapons, but it would have saved the civilians and they would not have to be protected and fed. But as we see a real chance only if Ukraine can clean the road with new weapons.
@@andreylyubavin1211 I'm too lazy to convince a person struck by the Soviet-Russian propaganda. I’ll just give facts and ask 1 question that you should answer yourself, I’m not interested. Fact 1 Russia steals food from Ukrainian farmers and famine may begin in the occupied territories in the fall 2 Fact Russia bombs schools and hospitals 3 The Russians staged a genocide. So did Azov do something like that?
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@@skyhappy race bait alert
but you right Ukraine does not deserve our help, they corrupt as all get out
Thanks for the link and for the video. I am curious though about one for a while now after seeing ten historical cities that were ruined. One was Warsaw I read that 90% or so of the cit pay was destroyed during ww2. Is it possible for you to make a video about its reconstruction after the war?
@@skyhappy cease your foolishness.
in 1992 My uncle bought a whole complete steel factory from Ukraine for just $120,000 and brought in to Turkey. The actual value of the factory was more than $10 million. After soviet collapse the whole Ukraine industry vanished in few years.
Yes and no. Our production lines was very close linked to other new country's. We produced what can be called old junk and with no experience how to upgrade or will to change( yes allot of directors of factory's don't want to try something new) well results was bad.....
My father wanted to buy a soviet submarine, bring it to Antalya and convert it for tourism but nato officials wouldn't allow it
@@Denis_Komarrov thats the results of communist regime. communist businesses and industries are notorious for their aversion of new tries, which is the essence of modern commerce.
in the 90s it was like buying a beer for a drunk dealing in Ukraine. It Show how they will sale there sole today and never care about tomorrow.
That's not something you should make public.
Really interesting analysis of Ukraine following the Cold War - thanks for your insights!
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This is an amazing initiative. I am proud to be part of this collaboration and hoping we can make a little bit of a difference to some people’s lives.
The one-sided attention given to Ukraine while Afghanistan is in the midst of a looming famine is just disgusting. Prime example of how a white country is valued more than non white..
@@skyhappy not Russia not interesting
@@skyhappy stop doing this whataboutism crap. BOTH MATTER. nobody said they did not. i guarentee you can find thousands of sources covering the afghan food security if you actually look. some examples are from youtube, BBC news, reuters, ITV news, ABC news, CNN, the gravel institute, Euronews, France24 english, the intercept, ect. all of which have multiple videos and articles covering afghanistan. DO SOME BLOODY RESEARCH
this attention to Afghanistan while war in Sudan breaks out again is disgusting. We ignore African conflicts while giving attention to those of indo-european speakers 🤢
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The joke was, Ukraine is the only modern country in which fraught their war of independent 30 years after gaining independent.
Not really , most former soviet countries suffer similar if not same fates.
@@ventsislav92makaveev I think you don't understand what he mean
Not sure if your comment is one of play or scuffle but the war right now is one of survival of the state and Ukrainian citizens within it and not independence. Ukraine had another murderous Kremlin demon do the same thing just by designed famine. ok I done I didn't know really what to make of your comment so assumed it was of a mocking nature so felt compelled to reply my opinion is all.
@@oO-_-_-_-Oo Golodomor was not only in Ukraine but also in Russia and Kazahstan. Main architects of it were Stalin and Beria and Kaganovich. None of them is Russian.
@@WP-cu2pf nice try, tovarisch. You forgot to mention the fact that these Russian lands were Ukrainian and German back then. These 3 nations were punished for being unloyal to Soviet Union. Unlike russians.
I appreciate you included the clip of the tree falling onto Yanukovich at 26:25 ❤️ trees help clean the air
Could you do the same with Kazakhstan and other former Soviet countries too, please?
I second this. Kazakhstan is uniquely fascinating and some focus could be on the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Semipalatinsk and nuclear history, Aral and Caspian seas, the capital, and the Silk Road both old and new.
Kazakhstan is considered the most modernised country in central Asia and compared to Russia from what I've heard. Nazarbaryev sending Kazahks to Western universities and successfully attracting foreign investment.
I once watched a documentary in which even a Kazakh human rights activist who criticised the president admitted that despite this he were a good president.
Kazakh potassium superior #1
I've seen Borat. Kazakhstan Very Nice
History feels so different, when you were alive at the time happening. I was born 1998. Feels so strange to see the 2000s and 2010s on a history channel
i was born in 1980, feels like another world.
@@schopen-hauer iwas born in 99 it already feels like multiple lives have passed
Thanks. Found this a really good reading of a complicated post Soviet history. Especially valuable given current events. Keep up the excellent work.
The one-sided attention given to Ukraine while Afghanistan is in the midst of a looming famine is just disgusting. Prime example of how a white country is valued more than non white. .
Great overview. seriously - many here in russia don't understand what you explained in mere half an hour
I'm liking how I'm learning of some new channels from this playlist!
This was a huge honor and experience for me, working first time on such a colab. So glad to be part of this, awesome video as always!
26:27 This was unexpected and hilarious.
Yes, so much for the excuse that Ukraine was joining NATO.
@@nicholasconder4703 It's a shame that people are such sheep they even thought that for a second. Like joining NATO is squarely a political decision.
@@nicholasconder4703 I think he's referring to Yanukovych getting walloped by a little tree.
@@robertshonk518It's not a tree, Its a funeral wreath (often used in Ukraine instead of funeral flowers). On cementary it's easy to see which tomb is fresh because you won't be able to see tomb itself under piles of these things
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You should have mentioned the fact that Ukraine did also vote in a referendum to join the new Union of sovereign states that was proposed by Gorbachev. The USS would have been a reformed USSR with more autonomy and rights for the smaller states. This doesn't invalidate the independence referendum later or suggest that Ukraine wanted to stay united with Russia but it might suggest that the push to independence was not inevitable and that Yeltsin and the Hardlines with despite differing interests pushed things towards a certain destiny.
This is actually a huge detail that I don't think anyone ever talks about, which leads to a puzzled reaction as to why in March of 1991 Ukraine voted to preserve the USSR and in December it voted in the support of independence, which is frequently used by Russia in a greater narrative of not considering Ukraine a legitimate state (it was all rigged/staged by [insert someone you hate here]/your own version of why Ukraine is not a country). When in March the people of the Soviet Union were asked a question
"Do you consider necessary the preservation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal **sovereign** republics in which the rights and freedom of an individual of any ethnicity will be fully guaranteed?"
the question explicitly asked if you support Ukrainian sovereignty, which if you read the 1990 declaration essentially makes Ukraine independent in all but name, with independent economic policy, independent military, priority of the republican laws over the union ones etc. No wonder Ukrainians said Yes
@@mcs699 yeah, also true
Actually, this was made to look like there would be reformed USSR, just to trick Gorbachev to resign peacefully (who ended up the only person in soviet goverment with somewhat power) and dissolve the USSR officially.
In the end, even russian president have no interest in keeping USSR alive, and Yeltsin was for russia independence from USSR all along, not eveb be said about other countries like Ukraine and Belarus
@@CraftDayFriends Well what happened between March and December in 1991?
August, and the attempted coup.
For anyone who was alive then, and saw those grey figures of Yanayev's gang on TV it is really not surprising at all that any part of the Soviet Union that could easily/legally divorce itself from Moscow would choose to do so.
@@Asptuber
легально не одна часть ссср не могла отделится от ссср
все референдумы были не законны с точки зрения конституции ссср
проводившие их были государственными преступниками
I'm glad that Ukraine is finally seen not as russia with a different name, but a whole separate nation with its own culture and language
As a Ukrainian I can praise you for this content and confirm that all you said was quite accurate.
Ukraine had 52 million ppl in 1991 when it became independent. It had 41 milion including Donetsk and Lugansk republics in 2021(who had around 3,7 milion together). That's minus of 14 milion ppl in just 30 yrs due to emigration and low birth rate and politics. Meanwhile Russian population was 148 milion in 1989 and now is almost 147 milion.
I think similar to Russia demographics as a result of bad economic growth.
@@johnl.7754 Uuuh no they lost millions of men in WW1 and WW2...that will set back birthrates quite a bit.
@@Miodrag.Vukomanovic the person was talking about population between 1991 and 2021
@@johnl.7754 No, in 1989. Russia had 147 milion ppl,in 2021. it has 146. Russia has very small economic diaspora in West compared to other non western European countries and when we look at population size of Russia.
@@WP-cu2pf 10 million Russians live abroad.
You should do a video on mass transit in the Soviet Union and transport and it’s infrastructure.
whatever.....
ITS*, not "it's infrastructure".
Thanks for including the wreath attack video!
Grateful for this Playlist! @Kings and Generals & Company!!
Excellent to see this pivotal era covered.
I have to mention that abstention was very high in Crimea. Actually, Russo-phones in Crimea, boycotted the referendum.
I would love to see more of these for all of the former Soviet Republics
So to put it simply, corruption followed by corruption.Just finished Kings and generals video.
You haven’t yet talked about what happened between 2014 and 2022 with regards to Ukraine? What other events besides the fall of Viktor Yanukovich led to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
I am Ukrainian. No more events actually. I think that maybe also because russia knew that new government will be much more pro-western.
Yeah, there seems to be a huge void in Western Media coverage of this particular 8yrs, but why?
Other than those "nasty Russians" turning up to "steal Crimea" from the Ukrainians, what else has been happening?
Oh yeah, and the two breakaway Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk doing just that, breaking away, like what ELSE has happened??
The dearth of information in the West is very telling, wouldn't you say??
USA/CIA happened and their Nationalists training camps.
@@OOpSjm That sounds like typical conspiracy nonsense to me, are you Russian by any chance?
Dude, it's the cold war, not 21st century events.
What a wonderful documentary, especially loved the part where Janukovytš was assaulted by that ornamental spruce. I wish that Russia's attempts to interfere in Ukraine's internal policies would have stayed at that level of slapstick. But alas... Thank you for this and all other videos you make. Also great cause for donations.
Maidan 2 was also assembled when the police beat the protesters for the official reason for putting up a Christmas tree. This is a funeral wreath made of a spruce, such a symbol.
11:20
But when a market is like privatize then small amounts of people can monopolize it for themselves
As a Ukrainian, that background music perfectly fits the atmosphere with which the events are seen today by some. Calm, solemn, serene yet all-pervadingly grand. Hearing about the events for the hundreth time still fills you with an unmistakeable and indescribable spirit. Being a simple, average single person in that time instead of seeing these events from a bird's eye view. You're still living at what seems like the peak of civilization when compared with global standards, and yet, every tiny little minute thing is breaking apart, torn by grand forces. The current events aren't something that came suddenly. There just is a limit on how much hardship people could bear, no matter how strong the slogans. It all comes back around in one way or another, just that sometimes it can be diverted and dissipated. When the events are so important that all of this becomes a real and valid historical factor, as importanf as any, that means you're living in one of the most unique times of history, the period after the dissolution of the USSR, the infamous 90s every person born afterwards, including myself, no matter how far gone, knows exactly how lucky they are to have missed
Also, in 1990-1991 as part of the Gorbachov Perestroika, there was an idea of restructuring the Soviet Union into something like a confederation know as the Novo-Ogaryovo process about the new Soviet Union Treaty. The whole process triggered the event know as the parade of sovereinties which include proclamation of sovereignty from the Soviet Union of all union republics including the Russian Federation.
Europe is history's biggest family feud
I've watched many YT videos on East Europe, USSR, Baltics, Balkans, etc. over the past 3 years. Even though I lived through all of this, and it was reported in our USA media, I never fully understood what was going on until now.Thank You 'The Cold War' et al.
The author also did not mention the Belavezha Accord, which officially ended the original Soviet Union Treaty, signed back in 1922.
About languages law by Yanukovych, he allowed the use of other than Ukraininan language for officials. The protests were about introducing the Russian language among officials and nothing to do with the use of language in private life.
Best article of this playlist supporting the Ukrainian charity well done 👍
18:44 Would this Timoshenko have any relation to Semyon Timoshenko, a Marshal of the the Soviet Union who was also a senior Red Army officer when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941?
I didn't find anything that might proof a relation but I asked myself the same
Nah, just a coincidence. She took her husband's name, his father was some nomenklatura guy of the same second name born in 1935, but not related to Marshal Timoshenko.
The last name Timoshenko is very common in Dnipropetrosk Oblast so you have a lot of people with that surname coming from that area.
Scrolling TH-cam at 9am as its benefits in catching this upload right away! Ready to enjoy this with my coffee ☕. Thank you for all that you bring us! #ProjectUkraine is an amazing initiative the propaganda coming out of this war is like I've never seen in my lifetime, and I look forward to learning more about creators with great values and knowledge!
What a really fun n interesting history Ukraine has had over the years. I hope it gets a bit more peaceful after the war is over. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
Would you guys ever do a video about Harold Wilson and the rumored coups that could have happened?
If my memory is correct, the Maidan revolution was in 2013-2014. I was there.
Poland was the first country to officially acknowledge the independent Ukrainian state.
Actually there is an interesting fact about this: some scholars argue whether Poland or Canada was the first country as it happened at the same time but these countries are in different time zones.
It’s too bad Ukraine didn’t follow the rest of the former Soviet Union countries and joined NATO back then. If they had they wouldn’t be having problems with Russia right now.
Excellent channel
Hey! Where is the beef commercial from Estonia with pirated instrumental Thriller music from Michael Jackson??
Great initiative! As a Ukrainian i am deeply grateful to the all channels taking part in #ProjectUkraine
Thank you for an enlightened report ❤ John Barnett GOD'S SPEED AND LOVE TO ALL 2:10 ❤❤❤❤
anyone else get four of their subscriptions post about Ukraine within 10 minutes?
I really appreciate this episode ❤️
Very informative 👍
Please Next video on indo pak war of 1971
Perhaps the USSR should have made a slow transition to capitalism instead of falling apart. Their leaders should have used the Nordic countries as an example.
Yeah but neoliberals didn't want that
Wonder what deal Soviet Russia offered after 91'...
Because when you looked at Germany in the 70s with east & west. 5 different brands of coffee in the west but only 1 in the east...
You think of Russia as having a rough time in the 90s, but it sounds like Ukraine may have had it even worse.
The big difference between the two countries is that Ukraine didn't let one bad decade dampen their desire for democracy and a civil society.
Oliver Stone's "Revealing Ukraine" documentary says Ukraine left the USSR with good industrial infrastructure that made them successful in the 1990's. Then the EU and US stepped in and slowly contracted the market they could sell their goods to, forcing them to buy the goods they used to make and driving them into debt, depression and social unrest.
Well... Infrastructure was good on paper but every man past 30 would say you that USSR mass-produced low-end shit that was also hard to obtain. In literally every industry from Electronics to Clothes.
USSR industry somehow managed to unable to manage inner demands without any real amount of exports...
When borders are opened to products much cheaper and available, industry just naturally collapsed in every instance where it couldn't compete with foreign ones
Looking forward to this Channel will discuss.
Vietnam Afghanistan Africa and Israel and the Arab and Afghanistan and the Middle East, also China and India Wars. Until the very end of the Cold War for the last war and the end, of what happened after that.
And the situation after the Cold War.
These are all the most impressive topics, that could be discussed about the Cold War.
About the wars between the Cold Wars!
This is the most iconic thing that can be discussed.
In connection with the Cold War!
What to discuss!
Complicated history.
Great project proud to be working with you mate
Same here!
Zakharov may well have been describing the unholy alliance between the political class, Big Tech and the mainstream media in the U.S. in 2022.
An understandable but unfortunate mistake - George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush were not “Senior” and “Junior”. The only “Senior” and “Junior” in recent US History were Albert W. Gore Sr. (a segregationist) and Albert W. Gore Jr. Otherwise, excellent presentation as usual, David.
My grandma saved quite large amount of money (unfortunately don't remember how much, i'll edit comment if I visit my parents and don't forget to ask them) every month for 20 years in order to give them to my father once he get married. When he finally did, Soviet Union collapsed, money were worth nothing and when they received that money (they were moderately poor at the time) they were only able to buy only 2 boxes of matches, they cried a lot then. However nobody misses Soviet Union in my family.
It is thoroughly insane that post-Soviet people who were nostalgic for communism ever thoughtt that that Moscow government would ever be interested in restoring that system in any way. Putin practically worships the fascist philosopher Ivan Ilyin.
This isn't post cold war. In fact, the cold war continued in Ukraine.
you forgot it being ruled by Lithuania
Yeah but Crimea had a lot of Russians because Stalin deported Tatars in Crimea in the 40s in boxcars in the dead of winter and sent them to Siberia and then brought in Russians. Same as they are doing now as they are kicking out Tatars and Ukrainians and bringing in Russians to Crimea
Also, a lot of Russians were brought into Ukraine after the Holodomor famine (Genocide). The Kulaks were sent to camps and there was noone left to tend to the fields or work in the mines
Poor Ukraine, cannot get a fucking break
They sent in troops to invade Iraq. Now they know what it feels like to be invaded for questionable reasons.
Ukraine during Nazi occupation.
What did the Ukrainians do with there jews?
Please make a video, the world would love to know about a dark past in which Ukrainian jews suffered exterminations not by Germans but by fellow Ukrainians working with Germans.
As a Ukrainian, I'd say that better Cold War Ukrainian topic would be Petro Shelest. Man managed to be respected by both dissidents and communists. He was considered to be Ukrainian nationalist and Stalinist at the same time. I'd argue, that his policies towards economic sovereignty of UkrSSR had directly caused independence.
Another interesting topic is Dviykari - democratic faction of OUN, but it can be more obscure in English.
After the fall of their economy, people started having "the grass is always greener on the other side". It's no wonder people started longing for the days of the Soviet Union and communism.
Holo-doh-bar wtf? Is the correct pronunciation of holodomor really that hard for you or is more important that your editor cuts in those stupid side angle camera views?
Everyone, what you're seeing transpire here is in alignment with the tactics of dictators as presented in a book titled "Spin Dictators" by Guriev.
The sign at 11:09 says, according to Google Translate, "Kravchuk, stop leading your people to 1933!"
Chilling sign given what happened then in Ukraine.
H0l0dom0r also happened in South Rus1@ and K@zakhst@n.
There was a Referendum in Carpathia Ruthenia too (1991 Transcarpathian general regional referendum ) To get Autonomy from Ukraine but Kyjev rejected it.
Good. You can't just vote yourself out of a country to secede. Countries exist for a reason. You need consent from the entire country. Which makes South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Nagorno Karabakh, DPR, and LPR illegal states.
@@f-86zoomer37 WHAT about Kosovo !!! Now there is second biggest USA military base in Europe called Camp Bondsteel . In this corrupt mafia fake nonsense called kosovo...
@@f-86zoomer37 They didn't vote to secede, they voted to have autonomy. Something like US states have but even less than that.
@@WP-cu2pf they did vote to secede. The Hungarian areas attempted to join Hungary and have Hungary annex them. Just like we saw in Crimea.
@@f-86zoomer37 I'm not saying about them,I'm saying about Transcarpathia. Hungarians live on only on small part of Transcarpathia on border with HU. Meanwhile, Ukrainians/Rusyns in Transcarpathia voted to have autonomy but to remain in Ukraine.
i'm probably about the 100th to pay your attention that Revolution of Dignity or Euromaidan happened in Jan 2014
5:15 deserves its own People's Republic.
Crimea was never tied to Ukraine. It was won over by Cathrine the great from the ottoman empire, and it was only part of Ukraine ssr and was not gifted to Ukraine. The people there don't have any deep ties to ukraine and if you believe in self determination you should believe in Russian crimea.
And yet Crimean Tatars who are the actual indigenous people of Crimea have said they want to be part of Ukraine not Russia but sure. The only reason Russians are there is because that imperialist shithole kicked out crimeans and put Russians there.
When will we have a cold-war Ukraine episode during the Stalin-Khruschev era?
where part 2
Wow - so close to NATO and EU membership except that Western Europe relied on energy from Russia and didn't want to make Moscow angry. A former US President warned Western Europe about reliance on Putin for energy.
1:04 2014 not 2012
It’s SO funny to hear the statement that a government, like Ukraine’s, couldn’t get the market working.
When it’s the go that’s the problem.
All you have to do is remove government and the economy with flourish!!! 😂 😂
Euromaidan was in February 2014 its kinda not to make there mistakes.
were you guys always part of Kings and Generals? I thought WW2 and the Cold War was its own thing?
The corruption issue makes me think of 1 Timothy 6:9-10a (ESV) from the Bible: "But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils."
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)
Thank you for making this video.
Great episode. Thanks!
Amazing content!
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i can't believe we already jumped to the end of the cold war before we even got to the 1960s ripip this channel
lol j/k keep up the good work
Ukraine proclaimed its soveirnity a few days later after it was done so by the Russian Federation that also proclaimed its sovereignty from the Soviet Union. Please note this.
23:47 When you saw a Nokia E90 Communicator on somebody’s desk in 2008, you knew they were important.
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Kuchmagate was critical point in modern Ukrainian history
Ukraine is the frontier between democracy and autocracy in Europe.
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Thanks for covering Sevastopol, histories of this are absolutely worthless without the status of Sevastopol discussed clearly.
The Black Sea Fleet Partition Treaty, the Kharkiv Pact after that treaty was broken, George W Bush's breaking of NPT which also broke the Budapest Memorandum even if Orange Revolution & Maidan did not... This is Russia's case that USA and Ukraine break treaties willfully and directly seeking destabilization of long standing security arrangements. Never in history did Kyiv control Sevastopol port.
Ukraine still vows to invade Sevastopol and will continue to shrink until that ceases or it ceases to exist as a state. It's utter madness and if they had tried this in 1991 they would just have lost a war THEN. Offering Sevastopol to NATO in 2002 is pretty much the whole cause of the present war. It's not just a redline for Russia but a causus belli for nuclear war, since they view a US nuclear sub base in Sevastopol to be intended strictly to nuke Moscow on so little notice the Russians could not respond.
imho Kuchma was a criminal who created an oligarchy and Ukraine simply ceased to exist as a country during his 11 years... Poroshenko was literally genocidal in Donbas. It's a failed state quite similar to the USA or UK which chooses war & money laundering over basic social and medical welfare of the population. And which uses its constitution - or lack of same - to break international obligations and export lethal risks to the world, rally support for these corrupt causes, and selectively call countries democratic based on its narrow current interests. Thus making rules based international order impossible, and in the long run empowering BRICS over G7.
EVERY SINGLE WORD A NAZI RUSSIAN LIE/DEFAMATION. BUT YOU SPEAK INTO THE WIND OF TRUTH and all your GENOCIDAL EXCREMENT LIES ARE BLOWING BACK ALL OVER YOUR FACE AND OVER THOSE OF THE RUSSIAN NAZI PEOPLE. Cr Hu = SHAMELESS GENOCIDAL NAZI RUSSIAN EXCREMENT IN PSEUDO-HUMAN FORM spewing HITLER'S/ PUTIN'S /RUSSIA'S SHAMELESS TOTAL LIES TO PUSH FOR the GENOCIDE of the UKRAINIAN people. BUT THIS Cr Hu /NAZI RUSSIAN EXCREMENT WILL INDEED BE FLUSHED AWAY DOWN INTO THE DEMONIC CESSPOOL where it belongs
The problem for Ukraine (and the world) has been the imperialism and arrogance of the Soviets/Russian government. The crimes of the Russian Communist revolution and it's support of dictators worldwide, including Hitler and Mao, have never been addressed by the world. Left unpunished after WWII, Russia continued the atrocities against E. Europe, and again with more unprovoked wars against it's neighbors in this century as well. As many European countries have decided that making money with a criminal dictator is acceptable, why should we be surprised that Russia is again killing it's neighbors.
@lati long difference is, generally democracies tend to get better, authoritarian states on the other hand tend to get more and more oppressive.
@lati long I’d invite you to talk to non-Europeans like the Kalmyks or Kazakhs about the Russian counterweight.
Lol the soviets killed nazi germany and what about those terrorists Americans scum
Ukraine is THE largest nation in Europe, NOT "ONE" of the largest
There was no mention of the 2003 Tuzla conflict. It can be said that this is the first attempt by the Russian Federation to occupy Ukrainian land in the 21st century. Tuzla Island is an administrative part of Crimea, now there is a bridge across it. Kuchma stopped the conflict by saying through non-official channels that "I will now remove you all with artillery" and it worked, it's a pity that I didn't remove it, maybe it would solve future problems at the very beginning, or vice versa, it would have done worse. Russia was weak, she "won" the war in Chechnya, so she paid tribute and was completely incompetent. Kuchma is a very controversial president, he wanted the best for the country, but he always succeeded by half, he defended Tuzla at gunpoint, but only postponed the problem for 10 years. Defended the Zmiinyi Island (Snake Island yes it where "russian warship nahuy") by winning the lawsuit against Romania, but lost the waters around it. Cleaned up part of the Danube so that you could swim along the Ukrainian part and got a huge scandal from environmentalists, both foreign and Ukrainian. He tried very hard to save the space program, he was a rocket developer and loved them very much, but in fact, without letting her die, he destroyed her future by cooperating with Russia. Well, I won’t say anything good about the murder of a journalist and an attempt to fake the elections, but he realized that he had no support, he had to retire and forbade it, unlike Yanukovych
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An interesting fact until 2004 in the Ukrainian language orange commonly used hot yellow "жовтогарячий". Russian propaganda said that the Americans sent oranges filled with drugs to the protesters. And in mockery of Russian propaganda, we began to use the word "orange" orange more often than hot yellow. Unfortunately, we did not understand how strong Russian propaganda is.
Unfortunately the South and Eastern Ukraine dragged you guys into this. These people should literally be deported and jailed for being traitors. More living space for real Ukrainians.
@@f-86zoomer37 I agree, we need an institution of non-citizens, we needed it immediately after the collapse of the USSR, but unfortunately then there was no possibility. Now there is more than that it is necessary or a pause of citizens. As for imprisonment and deportation, it’s more difficult here, without a doubt, all militants and collaborators should be imprisoned, but only foreign citizens can be deported according to the law.
I myself was born and raised in Makeevka, this is the agglomeration of Donetsk.
Quite a lot of boys and girls from Donbass have shown themselves best in battles for all these 8 years and now. I'm a little ashamed of their background, I'm a medical design engineer.
So that you understand, I went to a kindergarten with the Ukrainian language, there were 7 or 8 of them per 500 thousand of the population, and there was only one school with the Ukrainian language of instruction, and in other schools there was Ukrainian, but it was used only in the classes of the Ukrainian language and literature. I did not get into a school with Ukrainian teaching because there were not enough places on the lists.
The situation itself was literally the reason why he died, my distant relative Valery Marchenko in the Ukrainian SSR, he demanded in his article that they stop closing Ukrainian schools. According to the constitution of the Ukrainian SSR. It was because of this that he was imprisoned where he fell ill and was not treated, and then he was imprisoned for the 2nd time and then he already died.
In Ukraine they say (The poor are stupid, the stupid are poor).
Ukraine as a country has made many mistakes, for example, the judge who killed Valery gave the highest reward to the judges of "Yaroslav the Wise" after 2014.
And most importantly, it did not reform the education system in 90s and left the Soviet one only by changing its name.
Сollaborators be punished, but there are a lot of people out there who were too poor or stupid to leave. In Ukraine, the climate is such that in summer it can be +35, and in winter -25. Being homeless is potentially deadly. Some people are still transmitting information from there, and we have detailed lists of everyone who collaborated with the occupiers, who secretly resisted. But those who did not oppose really should not be citizens until a full-fledged check and until they pass the exams in the Ukrainian language, but they cannot be deported. Yes, it was possible to obtain Ukrainian citizenship without knowing the language until 07/16/2021, now this has finally been changed. For example, I passed Ukrainian on A- although I studied at a school with the Russian language of teaching and at our school there were those who simply could not pass the exam and some more people passed the exam, they could translate from Ukrainian into Russian but not from Russian into Ukrainian. It's about the same as my English level.
Many people simply could not afford to become real Ukrainians.
There were no Ukrainian schools in Mykolayiv until 1998, 7 years of independence. And they lived, but now Nikolaev is a real fortress which does not allow the enemy to pass, repairs equipment, and treats wounded. Until 2014, Ukraine developed as a state very slowly and only the threat of occupation revived the process.
@@Leo-yr5jb By the way what is the general opinion of Azov in Ukraine? Here in the US, we are very supportive of Azov probably because the some parts of the media has portrayed them as being a very effective fighting force, while other sides of the media called them Nazis. I recently attended a rally in support of the Azov battalion in New York City. But I don't think they are Nazis. They are helping a lot of people. They are defending all Ukrainians whether they are Jews or Christians or non religious, and they are still to this day bravely resisting the Putin orc invaders in Mariupol. Mariupol will be an unfortunate defeat for Ukraine, but the bravery of Azov fighters will never be forgotten.
@@f-86zoomer37 Azov Nazis is Russian propaganda. I knew one guy from Azov before the 2014 war, but I am more familiar with the Dnipro regiment, I was a student in the city of Dnipro in 2014-2016.
I’ll start from the beginning Azov was formed entirely from volunteers and many of these volunteers were from the Donbass, but there was already a non-regular volunteer regiment Donbass, because they took the name of the Sea and the fortress founded by the Cossacks, now it is not far from Mariupol in Russia. Precisely because they are especially motivated and they know the people and the area very well. Actually accusations are not unfounded, but are absolutely exaggerated. At the very beginning of 2014, there were several skinheads there. The problem is that Donbass is the most criminal part of Ukraine, there are many reasons and mostly connected with Russia, and we had a lot of gopniks (you can google it) and they were opposed by punks and skinheads, goths. In fact, for a teenager to feel safe, one had to always sit on one's own street or join one of the groups, or one must have an evil reputation. For example, I had a reputation as an athlete and I severely beat and frightened the gopniks who before that had me robbery for 5-6 dollars and a hat. Because of the big crime, the police did not pay attention to the small one. (When they kill then come) Because of my reputation, I could come to the party of any of the groups and therefore I saw the situation from different angles. There were also gangs of Tatars and Greeks, but strangers did not fall into them. Well, in general, there were several skinheads there, but before the war they were skinheads supporting the unification of all Eastern Slavs.
When the war began, they greatly revised their views. And then when a regular battalion was made of them, they got rid of the last dubious personalities. But the Internet remembers all the mistakes, and Russian propaganda inflates them to gigantic proportions.
The symbol of their battalion is Slavic, not German, not nazy, just many centuries ago there was an Antes Union (in en wiki Antes people) There were ancestors of Czechs, Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians and partly Russians. It was from the German river Uecker to Odessa. They say the USA is a "melting pot of peoples" then Europe is soldered peoples inside everyone tries to remain themselves like copper wires around which there is lead.
What is considered patriotism in the United States in Europe is terrible nationalism, and it is already convenient to call a nationalist a Nazi. For example, to obtain US citizenship, you must pass English and US history. To get Ukrainian citizenship, you had to either have Ukrainian ancestors or just live in Ukraine for 5 years, now you have to take an exam in the Ukrainian language. The Swiss are also often accused of Nazism because it is very difficult for them to obtain citizenship.
That is, if you see a "Nazi" in Europe, but he does not kill unarmed people and does not call for this, then most likely he is just a patriot who considers himself a nationalist.
Especially if, on the other side, an "anti-Nazi" who specifically bombs hospitals, schools and shelters where children are rescued, like in the Mariupol theater.
More than 250 hospitals and 200+ schools and a huge number of houses have been destroyed in Ukraine.
PS And yes, we are very worried about Azov and everyone who is there with them. The point is that if they are captured, they will definitely be tortured and threatened by civilians that they said (We held civilians hostage. We hid weapons in the hospital, the theater and there were no children or pregnant women there) I really hope that the supply of weapons will have time to reach and help to break the road to Mariupol, if not for quick de-occupation, then at least for evacuation.
I do not think that the UN can help here in any way. The trip of the UN secretary to Moscow is a shame and humiliation.
The only ones who could help right now are any NATO country that sent a hospital ship, the Russians would simply be afraid to shoot. They have already threatened that they will bomb the supply of weapons in Poland, but as you can see, they are scared, and shooting at the floating hospitals of NATO countries is even worse. Yes, this would not have saved the fighters of Azov, they refuse to go out without weapons, but it would have saved the civilians and they would not have to be protected and fed. But as we see a real chance only if Ukraine can clean the road with new weapons.
@@andreylyubavin1211 I'm too lazy to convince a person struck by the Soviet-Russian propaganda. I’ll just give facts and ask 1 question that you should answer yourself, I’m not interested. Fact 1 Russia steals food from Ukrainian farmers and famine may begin in the occupied territories in the fall 2 Fact Russia bombs schools and hospitals 3 The Russians staged a genocide.
So did Azov do something like that?