An unexpected point of upheaval which will stop world economies in their tracks - the divide is real I spoken to both sides, Eastern Ukraine Russians families transplanted by Stalin into Ukraine and Western Ukrainian that their families live there for centuries, and where under influence/or part of Poland and/or Lithuania
The political divide is huge even on a personal level.
One should read history as part of Ukraine was previously under Scythian kings, then Tervingi, then Greuthungi, then Patria Onoguria , or Bulgars,then Pechenegs, then Sviatoslav I of Kiev son of Olga a Varangian, who under his extreme cruelty unified under force the various Khanganate ,then partly under the Khazar, then Tatar, and then Kiev Rus, West was under control of Poland Lithuania etc.,
This is a reminder of the Sudetenland issue in the Czech republic before WWII, only the actors have changed.
"As the criminal Yanukovych regime’s violence, terror, and repression are driving Ukraine to armed conflict and, possibly, fragmentation, it may be worth asking whether Ukraine might not be better off without some of its southeastern provinces.
First let’s consider the bad reasons for a breakup—Ukraine’s diversity in general and the regional, ethnic, confessional, and cultural divisions between its “West” and “East” in particular. A good place to start is a recent article by Orlando Figes, professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, “ Is There One Ukraine?” Figes, who should know better coming from the UK, writes about Ukraine’s divisions as if they were unique and as if diversity alone justified or led to breakup. He’s wrong on both counts. Ukraine’s diversity is pretty much the norm for all stable states everywhere. "
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