Ukraine after the Fall of the Soviet Union - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

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[@proud_greek223]

No lol 🤣🤣 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤢🇺🇦

[@jordanburroughs1125]

you wish xd

[@jordanburroughs1125]

@@skyhappy race bait alert but you right Ukraine does not deserve our help, they corrupt as all get out

[@gc6096]

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?

[@zeldafortnitezeldafortnite2980]

​@@skyhappy cease your foolishness.

[@shamsahmguli8733]

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.

[@Denis_Komarrov]

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.....

[@CaptainBarbaros92]

My father wanted to buy a soviet submarine, bring it to Antalya and convert it for tourism but nato officials wouldn't allow it

[@Comte_de_Lorenzo]

@@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.

[@jtr789310]

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.

[@maxheadrom3088]

That's not something you should make public.

[@historywithhilbert146]

Really interesting analysis of Ukraine following the Cold War - thanks for your insights!

[@Game_Hero]

top 10 epic anime crossovers

[@NandiCollector]

*More than we can ask!*

[@masterimbecile]

I pressed the bell button, but it asked me for a big bribe before promising to remind me of your future uploads.

[@TheColdWarTV]

Instead of paying the bribe, please make a donation here: donation.babynyar.org/en/

[@kazakhdoge1822]

Could you do the same with Kazakhstan and other former Soviet countries too, please?

[@johnb7046]

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.

[@BountyFlamor]

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.

[@startedfarting2336]

Kazakh potassium superior #1

[@EuroMaidanWasAnInsurrection]

I've seen Borat. Kazakhstan Very Nice

[@saturnv2419]

The joke was, Ukraine is the only modern country in which fraught their war of independent 30 years after gaining independent.

[@ventsislav92makaveev]

Not really , most former soviet countries suffer similar if not same fates.

[@DeusExMau5]

@@ventsislav92makaveev I think you don't understand what he mean

[@oO-_-_-_-Oo]

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.

[@WP-cu2pf]

@@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.

[@GVGVIT]

@@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.

[@HistorySkills]

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.

[@skyhappy]

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..

[@nazbol84]

@@skyhappy not Russia not interesting

[@simpli_histori]

@@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

[@ElNietodelAhuizote]

⁠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 🤢

[@srncivhrnci]

I appreciate you included the clip of the tree falling onto Yanukovich at 26:25 ❤️ trees help clean the air

[@debsmith5520]

Thanks. Found this a really good reading of a complicated post Soviet history. Especially valuable given current events. Keep up the excellent work.

[@skyhappy]

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. .

[@leometz7287]

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

[@jesselivermore2291]

i was born in 1980, feels like another world.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

26:27 This was unexpected and hilarious.

[@nicholasconder4703]

Yes, so much for the excuse that Ukraine was joining NATO.

[@spencer871]

@@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.

[@robertshonk518]

@@nicholasconder4703 I think he's referring to Yanukovych getting walloped by a little tree.

[@ojgfhuebsrnvn2781]

@@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

[@HistoryandHeadlines]

I'm liking how I'm learning of some new channels from this playlist!

[@ibhistory106]

Great overview. seriously - many here in russia don't understand what you explained in mere half an hour

[@danieldmelniki8834]

Grateful for this Playlist! @Kings and Generals & Company!!

[@RedRosa]

Thanks for including the wreath attack video!

[@deanbuss1678]

I really appreciate this episode ❤️ Very informative 👍

[@Noidonteatbabiesstopasking]

It’s insane how bad the post-Soviet economic collapse was

[@maximotten-kamp371]

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.

[@CraftDayFriends]

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

[@CraftDayFriends]

@@mcs699 yeah, also true

[@Coole000]

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

[@Asptuber]

@@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.

[@TinTaBraSS777]

@@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

[@HistoriaGraecia]

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!

[@panther3per642]

Excellent channel

[@markolysynchuk5264]

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

[@ThePacificWarChannel]

So proud to be part of #ProjectUkraine =) amazing videos by all the great content creators! 🇺🇦

[@williamerazo3921]

You should do a video on mass transit in the Soviet Union and transport and it’s infrastructure.

[@alexandrosnaoum1318]

whatever.....

[@customfantasyhotwheels]

ITS*, not "it's infrastructure".

[@deprogramm]

Would you guys ever do a video about Harold Wilson and the rumored coups that could have happened?

[@veritasetcaritas]

Excellent to see this pivotal era covered.

[@MikkoHiiri]

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.

[@Leo-yr5jb]

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.

[@kylebeckley194]

Best article of this playlist supporting the Ukrainian charity well done 👍

[@stereoxmike]

Scrolling KZbin 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!

[@HolyKingKong]

I would love to see more of these for all of the former Soviet Republics

[@WP-cu2pf]

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]

I think similar to Russia demographics as a result of bad economic growth.

[@Miodrag.Vukomanovic]

@@johnl.7754 Uuuh no they lost millions of men in WW1 and WW2...that will set back birthrates quite a bit.

[@johnl.7754]

@@Miodrag.Vukomanovic the person was talking about population between 1991 and 2021

[@WP-cu2pf]

@@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.

[@liveforever9888]

@@WP-cu2pf 10 million Russians live abroad.

[@BTScriviner]

Thank you for making this video.

[@bobbatons1720]

I have to mention that abstention was very high in Crimea. Actually, Russo-phones in Crimea, boycotted the referendum.

[@moyeborotye1984]

Great initiative! As a Ukrainian i am deeply grateful to the all channels taking part in #ProjectUkraine

[@jmwilliamsart]

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?

[@theowlx7_alex245]

I am Ukrainian. No more events actually. I think that maybe also because russia knew that new government will be much more pro-western.

[@frenzalrhomb6919]

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??

[@OOpSjm]

USA/CIA happened and their Nationalists training camps.

[@jmwilliamsart]

@@OOpSjm That sounds like typical conspiracy nonsense to me, are you Russian by any chance?

[@Memelord1117]

Dude, it's the cold war, not 21st century events.

[@weirdshibainu]

Europe is history's biggest family feud

[@physicshuman9808]

11:20 But when a market is like privatize then small amounts of people can monopolize it for themselves

[@havocgr1976]

So to put it simply, corruption followed by corruption.Just finished Kings and generals video.

[@akirubamiru6700]

If my memory is correct, the Maidan revolution was in 2013-2014. I was there.

[@happyelephant5384]

As a Ukrainian I can praise you for this content and confirm that all you said was quite accurate.

[@ajaypal14121]

Please Next video on indo pak war of 1971

[@RealNeutronStar]

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!

[@ForelliBoy]

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

[@CivilWarWeekByWeek]

Great project proud to be working with you mate

[@TheColdWarTV]

Same here!

[@totneznakto]

The author also did not mention the Belavezha Accord, which officially ended the original Soviet Union Treaty, signed back in 1922.

[@UNSKIALzPSN]

Great episode. Thanks!

[@handyrus]

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.

[@brokenbridge6316]

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.

[@totneznakto]

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.

[@masonmoore3473]

Amazing content!

[@the1ghost764]

Complicated history.

[@divyanshuraj72]

I am from 🇮🇳 , I like your content and you are working for humanity 👍

[@albashar9519]

anyone else get four of their subscriptions post about Ukraine within 10 minutes?

[@84MadHatter]

where part 2

[@Dimich1993]

Thank you guys!

[@Game_Hero]

When will we have a cold-war Ukraine episode during the Stalin-Khruschev era?

[@jaytv4eva]

Hey! Where is the beef commercial from Estonia with pirated instrumental Thriller music from Michael Jackson??

[@tomdis8637]

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.

[@robertshonk518]

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.

[@barbiquearea]

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?

[@typiclyjohny5114]

I didn't find anything that might proof a relation but I asked myself the same

[@CraftDayFriends]

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.

[@lanciadr]

The last name Timoshenko is very common in Dnipropetrosk Oblast so you have a lot of people with that surname coming from that area.

[@skylineXpert]

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...

[@jimmyhirr5773]

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.

[@WP-cu2pf]

H0l0dom0r also happened in South Rus1@ and K@zakhst@n.

[@JAlucard77]

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.

[@eveningabused5123]

you forgot it being ruled by Lithuania

[@VisibilityFoggy]

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.

[@iammcwaffles5514]

This isn't post cold war. In fact, the cold war continued in Ukraine.

[@conradsz]

Poland was the first country to officially acknowledge the independent Ukrainian state.

[@pwc_uk]

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.

[@ibhistory106]

i'm probably about the 100th to pay your attention that Revolution of Dignity or Euromaidan happened in Jan 2014

[@bigsarge2085]

👍

[@ThisNinjaSays_]

5:15 deserves its own People's Republic.

[@ojgfhuebsrnvn2781]

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.

[@totneznakto]

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.

[@danitaminer6863]

15:55 🌞&🌷. . . 🌻? 😂👍👍

[@tommo9176]

were you guys always part of Kings and Generals? I thought WW2 and the Cold War was its own thing?

[@Barbossa778]

Thank you for the good video as always

[@richardides2035]

There was a Referendum in Carpathia Ruthenia too (1991 Transcarpathian general regional referendum ) To get Autonomy from Ukraine but Kyjev rejected it.

[@f-86zoomer37]

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.

[@richardides2035]

@@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...

[@WP-cu2pf]

@@f-86zoomer37 They didn't vote to secede, they voted to have autonomy. Something like US states have but even less than that.

[@f-86zoomer37]

@@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.

[@WP-cu2pf]

@@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.

[@-JA-]

👏👍

[@ems4884]

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.

[@rikstan15]

comment for the algorithm

[@TheOleMissippian]

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[@fredchappin]

Nice presentation .. thank you!

[@pauldwyer70]

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.

[@Coole000]

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

[@oleopathic]

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.

[@odinatra]

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.

[@eruno_]

Kuchmagate was critical point in modern Ukrainian history

[@MrDude826]

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.

[@videonofan]

Yeah but neoliberals didn't want that

[@brettmarshall5895]

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!!! 😂 😂

[@Game_Hero]

26:28 XD

[@MsDboyy]

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

[@Freddie1980]

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?

[@kylewhite4929]

Wish I could donate. But I'm just not financially able to sadly. So instead I just suggest it to anthor channel name The enforcer. Where he host streams almost every night of covering this conflict. And host a fundraising stream once a week

[@katyauntilova4274]

Euromaidan was in February 2014 its kinda not to make there mistakes.

[@dxvt]

1:04 2014 not 2012

[@Numba003]

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. ✝️ :)

[@justryane]

Context!

[@bohdanhovorun3078]

Sunflowers)

[@armandotalampas4800]

I wish you mentioned more about Yulia Timoshenko? She is once ranked one of the strongest women leaders in the world. What is her role in the Ukrainian government? What are the charges against her and her condition in prison?

[@Denis_Komarrov]

I would call her our putin(before he went mad). She will do anything for power. Her prison it was very good by our standards. Charges against her sorry but i don't remember what it was. Can say that during last days of janukovich rule there were charges against ppl who gather in groups larger then 3(three) and they wanted put them in prison for 5(five) years so it give you idea about corruption during his rule and what reason they may use to put her in jail

[@f-86zoomer37]

@@Denis_Komarrov Why? But she was anti Putin. SHe was a very strong Ukrainian nationalist leader who could have prevented the annexation of Crimea. If she won the election, it wouldn't have happened, but too bad, the Putin and the KGB had to rig the election to get Putin puppet Yanukovich in there. And then Yanukovich jailed her for three years when he became president, so it's not good. How can she be a Putin puppet when Putin's puppet himself jailed her?

[@Denis_Komarrov]

@@f-86zoomer37 I am sorry but she was anti putin and she was for putin, she was part of yellows and then she joined regions(janukovich), she agree to putin gas contracts and later she said that we won case in court that stopped contracts because of her. She opened market for electricity long time ago and then stopped it, ppl stil had papers with her signature and her promise to return at least money. Regions are not putins puppet, they used russians tv to stay in power, to be local kings. Russians paint west as devil, regions told ppl something like this : look there is bad ppl in west and you know that in east new empire rise, so vote for us and we will keep both of them away. P.S. ppl who vote for lady said something like this; yes she is crazy but at least while she is around she will keep ppl in power moving.

[@SantomPh]

She is a member of Ukraine's political opposition bloc and not in government, although she is also involved in the current struggle against Russia

[@DottorHealer]

Poor Ukraine, cannot get a fucking break

[@Miodrag.Vukomanovic]

They sent in troops to invade Iraq. Now they know what it feels like to be invaded for questionable reasons.

[@kaiservon2936]

In Short, Ukraine should have federalized 🤷‍♂️

[@real.MinatoYellowFlash]

Kuchma coined the phrase "Ukraine is not Russia" if I remember corectly.

[@oleopathic]

Putin needs to visit COPE-en-hagen hard this vacation season!