Ukraine

As Ukraine was known for being the home of disobedient and rebellious villagers, Stalin saw it as an immediate threat that could would have to be managed quickly. According to “Genocide in the 20th Century: Stalin’s Forced Famine 1932-33,” which is located on…

they joined at that time. Azerbaijan formed in 1936, along with Armenia 1936, Belarus 1922, Estonia 1940, Georgia 1936, Kazakhstan 1936, Kyrgyzstan 1935, Latvia 1940, Lithuania 1940, Moldova 1922, Russia 1922, Tajikistan 1929, Turkmenistan 1924, Ukraine 1922, and Uzbekistan…

A life of Adventure This morning as I knocked on the door to my fiancés apartment and her roommate Margarita answers the door. I don’t know if it is normal in the Ukraine to let your friends stand out in the cold, but after a few awkward moments she let me in the door. Over the past several weeks I have gotten know Margarita, and though we have extremely different lifestyles, and I have come to admire her adventurous spirit. She has a passion to visit foreign places, she has a thirst for…

Ever since Russia annexed Crimea (a peninsula in Europe) from Ukraine, there has been an on-going Russian-Ukranian conflict. Since April 2014, more than 6,500 people have died due to the atrocious and barbarous war. Ukraine, a country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia, is the location of the controversial battle. The conflict began due to Russian-originated Rebels wanting to establish a self-governing, autonomous government, non-dependent of the Ukranian one, led by Petro Poroshenko. The…

discusses the general disdain for the West that Russia fosters, and furthermore explains the importance of Ukraine and other neighboring countries to Russia’s well being. One of the main differences, however, is that Mankoff finds the motives of Russia to be irrational and unwarranted. Specifically, Mankoff notes, “By annexing Crimea and threatening deeper military intervention in eastern Ukraine, Russia will only bolster Ukrainian nationalism and push Kiev closer to Europe, while causing other…

United Nations defined genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group….” The Ukrainian Famine, which lasted from 1932-1933 was a famine in the Soviet controlled Republic of Ukraine, in which more than 7 million people perished and died from starvation. This famine, also known as the Holodomor, was true to the meaning; people were not being sacrificed for a cause, instead they were dying for no reason whatsoever. Learning…

The Ukraine Crisis is A Marxist Revival In the mid 1840’s; capitalist globalisation was transforming the international states-system. The conflict and competition that came between the nation states was about to end but they were wrong, it was the main fault of future division between any two dominant social classes. This outlines how a social experiment based on 1990’s enlightenment of liberty, equality and safety was already starting the modern political movements of Karl Marx. The marxism or…

The term “Holodomor” is used to describe the artificial famine imposed on the Ukrainian population. Ukraine suffered three major famines, the first started in 1921 and the last ended in 1947 (#1). The Holodomor’s history began in 1929 with a huge influx of exiled successful farmers, religious, intellectual and cultural leaders, ultimately anyone that resisted the Soviet regime. This influx led to the famine that killed millions of innocent people (#2). Between 1932 and 1933 the Soviet government…

My ancestors constantly had to either push against the boundaries discrimination confined them in, or try to hide their culture entirely. This caused their sense of security to deteriorate. This is one of the main differences between my ancestors and I, they lived in fear and struggled because of their identities, whereas I am hardly aware of my own, and society has not forced me to be aware of it, to try to hide it, or to act any differently because of it. When my family immigrated to Canada…

the Soviet Union in 1991. Thus I am left with the question: How have Ukraine and East Germany experienced the ‘patriotism…