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here in kiev in recent days it might dawn independence square has turned into a full scale war zone. full clancy's in ukraine's capital kiev. there is absolutely no. right to tell what. are caricature everybody. now on the brink of a civil war at least seventy dead so far and the death toll rising. a new. poll we saw here today was a revolution. and said to. have invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in knees and other.
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nato has expanded into thirteen countries up to the borders of russia thirteen countries. focus has to be on not allowing right into a hot war between ukraine and russia. but. that the. city would. the the low the. elite
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. please please. please ily the two. ukraine. it's an ancient and proud land. with a rich history filled with much beauty heroism and sacrifice. ukraine is a border land. a place where east meets west. this is the flag
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of ukraine the blue represents the sky the gold its seemingly endless fields of wheat. ukraine is a prize many have sought. and much blood spilled in the quest possesses. ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. in world war one. and world war two. and every time the ukrainian people ended up paying the highest price for these grand games of power. history doesn't repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. if one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. being surrounded by stronger
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powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and the art they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. in the middle of the seventeenth century ukrainian leader dunn who. broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russia. just over fifty years later as the russian swedish war was raging another ukrainian leader ivan mazeppa bro. the union with russia when he switched sides joining forces with the swedish invaders many times ukrainian history was written by third parties seeking to keep the gains of a revolution at any cost russia agreed to the humiliating conditions of the breast with treaty of one nine hundred eighteen which turned ukraine into a german protectorate another historical document to change the fate of ukraine was
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the molotov ribbentrop pact of one thousand nine hundred thirty nine one of many such agreements being signed between european countries and rising germany. attempting to protect his nation from the approaching nazi threat. joseph stalin negotiated a treaty of nonaggression with adolf hitler while promising each other piece of the soviet in german foreign ministers molotov and ribbentrop realigned the map of eastern europe splitting it into german and soviet spheres of influence. no sooner had the molotov ribbentrop pact been signed then poland was split and in september of one nine hundred thirty nine eastern poland awoke to be western ukraine and a part of the family of soviet republics and the u.s.s.r. . but even this bold dividing of lands and nations only delayed the inevitable germany broke its promise to the
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u.s.s.r. . on june twenty second one thousand nine hundred forty one germany invaded the u.s.s.r. launching barber rossa the largest military operation in world history. was aiming for st petersburg moscow and kiev ukraine three destinations of major significance ukraine with its rich lands and resources was an important industrial and economic source for the u.s.s.r. to cut it off from the soviet union would strike a big blow indeed. for most of the soviet union the second world war was about fighting the invaders of the land. but it wasn't quite so simple for ukraine the truth is ukraine has never been
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a united country. when world war two broke out a large part of western ukraine's population welcomed the german soldiers as liberators from the. certainly forced upon them soviet rule and openly collaborated with the germans. the real scale of collaboration was not announced for many years after the war but we now know that whole divisions and battalions were formed by ukrainian collaborators such as s.s. galaxian not to go and roll into battalions. just in the beginning of the war more than eighty thousand people from college cina region voluntarily enrolled into division s.s. galad seen in a month and a half notorious for their extreme cruelty towards the polish jewish and russian people on the territory of ukraine. members of these military groups came mostly from the organization of ukrainian nationalists b.-o.
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un founded in one nine hundred twenty nine this organization had an ultimate goal of creating an ethnically pure independent ukraine and considered terror an acceptable tool for achieving their ends their official flag was black and red land and blood it will remain in ukraine's history long after the zero un will cease to exist in early one nine hundred forty the most radical nationalistic part of the organization of ukrainian nationalists got its own leader step on bond era severely anti semitic an anti communist he proclaimed an independent ukraine in one nine hundred forty one. his german allies frowned upon such an act of self will and it landed him in prison for nearly all the second world war not participating in the events physically. still managed to successfully spread his ideology many independent historians estimate that the zero un militia exterminated from one
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hundred fifty to two hundred thousand jews on ukrainian territory occupied by the germans by the end of one nine hundred forty one. in the most notorious and outrageous massacre took place september twenty ninth and thirtieth nineteen forty one in kiev. of the city of kiev and its vicinity must appear on monday september twenty ninth by eight o'clock in the morning. bring documents money and valuables and also warm clothing linen cetera. they need not follow this order and are found elsewhere will be shot. thirty three thousand seven hundred seventy one jews were killed in this two day operation of the nazis and ukrainian militia. another outrageous massacre was carried out by the ukrainian insurgent army and the bond faction of
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the organization of ukrainian nationalists in german occupied polish. and eastern between one nine hundred forty three and one nine hundred forty four this genocide of poles was led by. thirty five thousand to sixty thousand people in vali nya and twenty five to forty thousand eastern. fell victim to this massive ethnic cleansing operation. sensing the inevitable loss of the german troops the organization of ukrainian nationalists who gave up on their former ally and began fighting equally against the germans and the soviet forces. in january nine hundred forty three u.s.s.r. troops started pushing the nazis back liberating one part of ukraine after another . western ukraine was the last ukrainian region held by the germans finally being liberated in october of one nine hundred forty four. bands continue to
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wage their guerrilla war against the soviet regime carrying out bloody raids on ukrainian villages and towns and leaving the. chaos and casualties. this war went on until the middle of the one nine hundred fifty s. when the last collaborators were either detained or fled the country. on may seventh one thousand nine hundred forty five germany unconditionally surrendered to the allies ukraine remained a part of the soviet union. the peace after the second world war was short lived. the united states and the soviet union nations who allied together along with england to defeat the nazis tragically became foes as the cold war began.
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and the age of triumph winning is all that matters the phrase by any means necessary has truly been weaponized now politics has little to do with policy front and center of perceived cultural grievances and resentments just saps redcap. and they have a mission. for the little
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guy. out of the money i don't want to give up. was the leader of another faction of the us. romance you have it was a general of the ukrainian insurgent army and others contributed greatly to the movement blunder as dangerous ideology suppressed by the communist authorities but supported by external forces never really died the seeds of ukrainian nationalism were passed from generation to generation unfortunately it was just a matter of time before they would once again blossom. in one nine hundred fifty four ukraine's territory was expanded even more when nikita khrushchev the leader of the u.s.s.r. and ukrainian himself generously gave the crimean region to ukraine. historians would argue about the legitimacy of this transfer for many years to come and sixty years after khrushchev's gift dramatic new events would take place in crimea was of
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the world are on ukraine as a crisis in crimea continues dozens of heavily armed men seize government buildings in crimea should ukraine just shrug their shoulders and say ok crimea is lost and the old arguments would heat up once again. the cold war would heat up and cool down by turns while both rivals were obsessive leave building up military capacity the turning point took place when the new era perestroika came to the u.s.s.r. with its new leader mikhail gorbachev in the middle of the one nine hundred eighty s. . perestroika meant restructuring towards liberalization and democratization it certainly had a positive impact on the international situation astonishing news from east germany where the east german authorities have said that in essence of the berlin wall doesn't mean anything anymore. but
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inside the u.s.s.r. the weakening of kremlin control had different consequences. in ukraine a nationalistic political organiser. nation not poor people's movement emerged in one nine hundred eighty nine due to this openness. they advocated for independence of ukraine from the u.s.s.r. and became an incubator for leaders of ukraine in the nazis. in one thousand nine hundred one one of them. book founded svoboda an openly radical nationalist party preaching the good old principles of bondage. of the. purge ukraine from the jews in russia ukraine for ukrainians and so on his
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statements got him fifth place in the simon visa and all center top ten anti-semitic world leader rankings of two thousand and twelve. but also sadly attracted numerous phone. dimitri are founded another extreme right organization treason or trident in one thousand and four. in april two thousand and thirteen became an assistant to a member of parliament from the opposition party. later that same year he would become the leader of the most radical ukrainian nazi group the right sector. andriy par o.b.e. would soon appear leading a whole army of ultra nationalist warriors. in the torch marches would once again light up the streets of ukrainian cities.
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of. the world. drastically changed in august one thousand nine hundred ninety one when the u.s.s.r. de facto ceased to exist and the global political map welcomed many newcomers ukraine one of them in modern history it was the first time ukraine was truly independent and all on its own. the red flag came down over the kremlin tonight as president gorbachev resigned and or to an end seven decades of communist rule in the soviet union. the years after the disintegration of the u.s.s.r. became known as the crazy ninety's in all the post soviet territories. he's leaving behind fifteen independent states which share only
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a disastrous economy and an uncertain future after having been under a government controlled economy the free market dramatically changed the rules of the game new businesses emerged instantly in the first all the guards were born overnight. the former country with no class division suddenly became stratified the chosen few became rich while the rest had to fight to survive. the same as it was the pollution is a sinister herschel as. they what is the thing is that us just going you know she's the oldest living on the slopes listed in using your street in the only city in your cellars of what it was when you say. it cuba alist in union into good reason you know even though there's a in each you and me and as many of you know dumbass hail. post the system might be . listening in and i'm yours and president going to missile going is going to eventually you will stay lit at the appraisal out of
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a solution that sloshes chicago but the people's growing discontent made ukraine more vulnerable to outside forces and a new kind of warfare was launched one not known before. it's. a clash with police hundreds of thousands protesting the results of the election and calling for a vote. ukraine has had to color revolutions and its twenty four years of independence in two thousand and four people descended upon kiev marking the start of the revolution. that ukraine became once again a battlefield of two forces the russian and western governments the culmination of this conflict took place during the presidential elections in november of two thousand and four. the two major candidates western backed. and russia.
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which almost equally shared the votes of ukrainians by the way calling viktor yuschenko western backed is not an exaggeration. his wife. is a former u.s. state department official and worked in the white house during the reagan administration the division was along geographic lines traditionally russian eastern ukraine voted for you. while western ukraine chose yuschenko. the result viktor yuschenko lost. but thousands of people didn't agree with it and they came to the central square of kiev on the twenty second of november. the situation received wide news coverage the country's election commission ignored reports of fraud declaring kremlin backed. the winner international politicians such as former general secretary of nato. became frequent guests in kiev initiating
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negotiations between parties. with. the results of the negotiations however were often reached only. on paper thus you shan't go never told the supporters to stop blocking government buildings in central kiev. therefore these nonviolent and very orange protests lasted for a month during which time the previous election results were no marred by massive corruption and new elections were announced an important nuance just three months before viktor yuschenko became a victim to a mysterious and still unsolved poisoning but it didn't prevent him from winning in the new election. though as we shall soon see there was much more than just the people's will that led to this victory this peaceful revolution and its leader world warmly welcomed by the international community but the euphoria didn't last long yuschenko as government completely failed with reforms and lost its chance to
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establish democracy instead descending into infighting viktor yuschenko was not reelected for a second term but at the end of his presidency he had the time to make one last gift to his supporters from western ukraine. medical use downs to long weeks last lonely gadgets that you can heal. when you're. cold as a political tool for the open that is the one who was at the burkle glued to the
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bat. it's still it's about seeing me. just chill. it's hard to imagine decades after the war a nazi doctor was still active and rich in the nineteen seventies crittle had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at auschwitz
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a german company develops a little mind a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything paul you know she said is just cut short arms minix a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering that not only want the money i want the revenge. of. the russian military plane is shot down off the coast of syria killing fifteen servicemen president putin calls a tragic chain of events after the russian defense ministry accusing israel of provoking syrian anti-aircraft fire. israel admits it better to war planes were
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bombing syrian targets at the time of the tragedy but insists that damascus is fully responsible for hitting at the russian plan to search teams that find the remains of some of those on board the downed plane which fell into the mediterranean sea.

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