Yea until recently the Russians had been so nice to the Ukraine! {/Poe]
Google Holodomor!
It was. But it is not fair to remember it now. I will explain why.
In the late 80s, during the time of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, Russia committed another robbery against Ukraine. In 1989, Russia (Yeltsin) adopted a law on state sovereignty, which placed its laws above the federal laws of the USSR and declared everything on its territory to be its own, all income to be its own. Including all income from the extraction of minerals (oil and gas). As for gas, this was robbery for Ukraine. Ukraine had been investing in this industry in the USSR for decades. Ukraine invested in free gas for Moscow and large cities of Russia. Ukraine invested money and specialists, as well as labor force in the development and extraction of gas in Siberia. In exchange, Ukraine was supposed to receive gas for free for its needs (without the right to export). And so it was until 1989. And then Yeltsin declares that this is only ours. Ukraine appeals to Gorbachev, and he does not interfere. Imagine that the USA invested huge amounts of money in the largest joint-stock company in China, and then China declared that everything built on its territory is now only its own and will not be shared with anyone. As a consolation prize, Ukraine was given the fact that everything built on its territory will only be Ukrainian. But it was still robbery.
The second robbery occurred when, under the guise of reforms and price liberalization, all citizens of the USSR, including all Ukrainians, were deprived of their savings in accounts. At that time, there was only one bank in the entire USSR where the population could keep money - Sberbank of the USSR. And this is what Moscow did. They forbade the population to withdraw money from their accounts. And then they printed so much money that the value of the ruble decreased 1000 times in 1-2 years. People had money saved for their children's education, for buying cars and houses, for a comfortable old age. And Moscow deprived all people of the USSR, including Ukrainians, of this money. And who won? The one who printed the money - Moscow. Of course, it didn't go to ordinary Muscovites, but to the rich people connected with Yeltsin.
Everyone mistakenly thinks that the Afghan war destroyed the USSR. But the Afghan war lasted 9 years and ended in 1988. And this robbery began in 1989 and in 1.5 years it destroyed the USSR. Yeltsin destroyed the USSR with the connivance of Gorbachev. Then they signed agreements on the creation of the CIS and the property of each new state on its territory (late 1991 - early 1992).
Regarding the Holodomor - this is hypocrisy. Why did Ukrainians and Russians forgive the Germans for everything that happened before 1945, but they remind Russians of 1933? In the late 80s, my parents and I were vacationing on the Black Sea coast. There were Russians at the dinner table with us, very nice people. I didn't know about 1933, but my parents knew from their parents. But it never occurred to them to accuse ordinary Russians of Stalin's crimes. They had very nice conversations and were friends back then. In the USSR, it was common to forgive Russians for everything that happened before the 1941-1945 war, where our grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought together against Hitler.
And then, after 2004, they started raising the topic of the Holodomor again, accusing Russians of the crimes of 1933. The media, paid by someone, actively participated in this. Why didn't they remind the Germans of 1941? Because that was their policy: to selectively choose the bad.
Then they remembered the massacre in Western Ukraine on the border with Poland. That was also before 1945. It was already advantageous for Russia, in order to quarrel with Poland.
Then they started making a hero out of the controversial personality of Stepan Bandera. He was a nationalist, wanted good for his people, but used evil terrorist methods of fighting the Poles and Russians. It was a shot in the foot: Ukraine immediately quarreled with Russia and Poland at the same time. And quarreled over events that happened before 1945. But continued to be friends with the Germans, who were forgiven.
That's not fair. If everyone was forgiven before 1945, then everyone should be forgiven.
In Europe, for the last 100-200 years, the French were constantly fighting against the Germans, the Germans against the French, the French against the English, the English sometimes against the French, sometimes against the Germans. Before 1945, Europe was incessant wars. If we start remembering who did what bad before 1945, then this will unleash new wars in Europe or even unleash World War III.
In 1991, Ukraine forgave everything that happened before 1991. And then someone paid off the corrupt journalists and they started: in such a year the Russians offended us, in such a year the Poles, and in such a year someone else. We forgive these, but we don't forgive those. We forgive those who give money now, and those who don't - let's remember all the bad things.
This is a road to nowhere. Ukrainians are not vindictive. But the corrupt journalists wound up the Ukrainians on one side, and the Russians on the other. The Russians repented of Stalin's crimes twice: under Khrushchev and under Gorbachev. But after 2002, they began to explain to the Russians that Stalin was good, and all the neighbors are bad. The Brains of Russians, too, were brainwashed beyond recognition for 24 years.
In Russia, these are journalists paid by the rich like Solovyov, Skabeeva and Simonyan (the most famous of the corrupt journalists who promoted the war with Ukraine). There were some like that in Ukraine too. Selective rancor towards neighboring countries + consigning to oblivion their own crimes and good deeds by neighboring countries. This is paid for by someone.
