Friday, March 13, 2015

A facebook entry on Russia-Ukraine

A letter to The Times Literary Supplement (March 6, 2015. p. 6) re Russia-Ukraine by a Harvard scholar:
Sir -- Richard Sakwa (Letters, February 20) is right to say that Vladimir Putin is not attempting to recreate the Soviet Union. Were he doing that he would have kept Crimea in Ukraine: as a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, Ukraine included Crimea (from 1954 to 1991) and even Donbass, which on Lenin's insistence had been made part of Soviet Ukraine. Putin's acti...
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In all the wise commentary on the tragic Russia-Ukraine situation, I have seen few observations (admissions?) that 20th-century Ukraine is essentially a Soviet geopolitical construction....
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