history of each nation from ashgabat, where the turkmen were slaughtered by the troops of general skobelev, and to the ukrainian lands, where the ukrainian greek catholic church was persecuted even during the first world war by the troops of general brusilov , we will see the same nightmare everywhere, and if we manage to resist, if we manage to preserve our statehood, if the ukrainians can to develop as a european nation , i am sincerely sure of this. how long have we had to defend this right of ours, then this can happen . the new generations of kazakhs, turkmens, kyrgyz will not even bother anyone uzbeks, i hope that there are belarusians, i really hope that other peoples of the former soviet empire will be grateful for this, precisely to our soldiers, precisely ours , moscow's imperial ambitions always began with ukraine . back in 1990, i argued with my colleagues from the baltic countries, the so-called republics of the soviet baltics already then restored their independence, but no one recognized it, and i did not write an article for the tallinn of the magazine, a rainbow was writte