Constantin Gurdgiev, Frank Munley, …

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Territories annexed to Ukraine…
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  1. shinichi Post author

    Ethnic Russians in Ukraine are Centuries-Old, Not Decades-Deep…

    by Constantin Gurdgiev

    http://trueeconomics.blogspot.jp/2014/05/252014-ethnic-russians-in-ukraine-are.html

    • Eastern Ukraine was added to Russian Empire in 1654-1667 with western border defined by River Dniper. These parts were first incorporated into the Ukrainian territories in 1919-1920 and then in 1922 Treaty that created the USSR. Here are the lands lost in the Polish War by Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and gained by Ukraine via Russia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth_1635.svg
    • Today’s Western Ukraine was formed during one of the subsequent three partitions of Poland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rzeczpospolita_Rozbi which also added significantly to the Ukrainian territories claimed today.
    • In 1783 Russia added Crimea and other parts of Tatar Crimean khanite, including Odessa.
    • Irony has it, as http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/612921/Ukraine/30071/Ukraine-under-direct-imperial-Russian-rule points, it was Russian imperial control that allowed Ukrainians to settle into Crimea and Southern Ukrainian territories. 
    • After WW2, Soviet Union largely expanded Ukrainian territory adding over 65,000 square miles and 11 million population (an increase of over 1/3 on pre-war period. The main expansion took place along the Curzon Line at the expense of Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia.
    • Lastly, in February 1954, Russian Republic (RSFSR) ‘gifted’ Crimea to the Ukraine – from legally Russian territory (sub-part of the USSR). Only 22% of Crimean population at the time was Ukrainian (the rest were Tatars, other ethnic minorities and those, who Kiev supporters today frequently call post-genocide occupants of Ukraine coming from Russia, but in reality are Russian ethnicity residents of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine since 17th century).
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  2. shinichi Post author

    Ukraine and Its Border Problems

    by Frank Munley

    http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ukraine-and-Its-Border-Pro-by-Frank-Munley-Agreement_Democratic_Elections_NATO-140514-431.html

    Only rarely can truly democratic pressure from citizens make a difference in foreign affairs, so powerful is the propaganda machine and devious machinations of the US’s secret government. It is up to us to weigh in and form a truthful narrative about what’s happening to Ukraine and its exploitation by those ardently wishing for a new Cold War.

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