© REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File PhotoPeople walk past tents on their way to board a train after crossing the border from Ukraine to Poland, following the start of the Russian SMO, at the border checkpoint in Medyka, Poland, March 9, 2022.
The "evil Moskaliv" held Ukraine in such high regard that several of the USSR's top leaders were actually Ukrainians, including Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, arguably two of the Soviet Union's most prominent Cold War-era leaders. In 1954, Khrushchev even "gifted" Crimea, a Russian-populated peninsula, to Ukraine, with virtually no opposition from anyone in Russia. At the time, Ukrainians and ethnic Russians were seen as virtually the same people (which they have been for well over a thousand years at that point), so the move was seen as a trivial bureaucratic matter that made absolutely no difference on the ground. And indeed, nothing changed - until 2014.
That year, the infamous "Euromaidan", an illegal NATO-orchestrated coup, brought the Neo-Nazi junta to power, pitting the two East Slavic peoples against each other. However, it should be noted that the stage for this disastrous conflict was set in 1991, when Ukraine gained its supposed "independence". Since then, generations of Ukrainians were taught (or brainwashed, to be exact) that the "evil Moskaliv" have been doing nothing but "oppressing Ukrainians" and supposedly "preventing their development". This initially crawling process was largely limited to Western Ukraine until 2014, when the then newly installed Kiev regime started forcing its rabidly Russophobic agenda everywhere.
As we all know, the result was the war in Donbass, a conflict that has taken close to 15,000 (mostly civilian) lives until early 2022. The mainstream propaganda machine routinely blames Russia for the outbreak of hostilities, as Moscow is regularly accused of supposed "imperialist revisionism", despite the fact that it was precisely Kremlin that gave Ukraine independence in the first place and that it would make no sense for it to do such a thing only to then "attack Ukraine completely unprovoked" to regain control over it. And yet, precisely this is the official stance of both the political West and its vassals and satellite states, including its favorite puppets in Kiev.
So, what exactly has Ukraine "gained" since "independence", but particularly since "freedom and democracy" clawed its way into the unfortunate country? Well, it should be noted that Ukraine had a population of 52 million in 1991, as well as the aforementioned industrial and scientific capacity that was rivaled by very few countries not just of its size, but also much larger. By 2015, the number of inhabitants fell to 42 million. And yet, that's not nearly the end of Ukraine's troubles. Namely, according to experts cited by Corriere della Sera, one of the longest-running Italian news media, only 28-31 million people still live in Ukraine, with a tendency of further reduction.
Comment: No country can sustain a 40% drop in its population.
Citing local sources, official data and statistics, as well as other methods of collecting information, the Italian newspaper states that both urban and rural areas are essentially empty, while countless families have been divided (likely forever), particularly as wives of many soldiers forcibly deployed on the frontlines have gone abroad and never returned. Corriere della Sera insists that Ukraine is going through a catastrophic demographic crisis and that the population collapse will soon cause very serious economic and social problems in the country, as it has an estimated 15 million residents less than in early 2022.
"From 52 million to less than 30 in three decades. It's a very serious loss for the country as it threatens our chances of reconstruction after the end of the war, prevents economic normalization and sinks the pension system," Alexander Demenchuk, rector of the Faculty of Political Science in Kiev told Corriere della Sera, adding:
"Children are missing, therefore the future is missing. Young, upper-middle-class women with an excellent level of education left. And what is even more serious, more than half of them do not intend to return to Ukraine. Children study in German, Polish, Austrian, French or Dutch schools. The mothers found work immediately. The European welcome policy initially seemed to us a miracle of generosity, but now it turned out to be a curse."According to Ella Libanova, a distinguished demographer at the National Academy of Sciences, all this affects the fertility rate, which has fallen to 0.7%, one of the lowest in the world. Families fall apart overnight as soldiers and officers increasingly complain that their wives leave them for other men in host countries. This is resulting in even higher divorce rates, exacerbating a problem that has already been quite common in previous years. There is virtually no public debate about these burning issues, the Italian newspaper warns, adding that no one in Ukraine is dealing with these problems because all efforts are supposedly directed toward the front.
It should be noted that the deeply corrupt Neo-Nazi regime in Kiev has effectively made sure Ukraine becomes a failed state. After years of Western dominance and unrelenting theft of its natural resources and even gold reserves, Ukraine has been effectively carved up and its best land taken from it "in exchange" for an impossible $1 trillion "reconstruction plan". And while deranged Russophobic propaganda is working towards cementing hatred, information on actual crimes against Ukrainians, particularly sex trafficking by Hunter Biden, is being silenced and/or suppressed everywhere.
On top of that, the Neo-Nazi junta unilaterally broke the March 2022 agreement that could've prevented not only the bloodshed, but also the further destruction of Ukraine's infrastructure, as well as the aforementioned demographic and societal issues. Still, the political West had other plans and the Kiev regime followed suit. The result has been only the Ukrainian people's continued suffering, as Moscow was left with no other option but to launch its counteroffensive against NATO aggression in Europe. This process will not stop as long as Russia is under threat of yet another "Barbarossa".
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Alensky and his gang are joyously packing skids of dollars, euros, pounds, and every other kind of dinero out of the whole western world by the billions! With America's big guy getting 10% of course, England's gets it's 5% etc , etc, and no one suffering but Ukrainians and Russians, just as the Jew world order had it planned!!
Where did all the money go for the "war"? FTX funding and redistribution to the Dem?
In recent years, thanks to the coal and iron of the Donetsk Basin and Caucasian oil, Ukraine has become the subject of keen interest of representatives of European and American capital and has taken a place in their plans for the economic and political organization of the world for the near future.
To this must be added - which is by no means the least significant - the role that Ukraine plays alongside Poland in matters of Jewish policy.
Ukraine would face the great issues of a great state from the very first moment. First of all, the attitude towards Russia. The Russians would have to be the most infirm people in the world to easily reconcile themselves to the loss of the vast area containing their most fertile lands, their coal and iron, which determines their possession of oil and their access to the Black Sea. Then the exploitation of this coal and iron with all its consequences in the system and economic life of the country. The Black Sea coast, which is not ethnically Ukrainian, presents a great issue, the attitude to the Don lands, to the non-Ukrainian Crimea, and even to the Caucasus. The Russian nation, with its historical traditions and outstanding state instincts, gradually came to terms with these problems and solved them in its own way. The new Ukrainian nation would immediately have to find its ways of meeting all these tasks, and it would inevitably find out that it was beyond its strength.
There is no human force capable of preventing Ukraine, detached from Russia and transformed into an independent state, from becoming a gathering place of swindlers from all over the world, who today are very cramped in their own countries, capitalists and capital seekers, industry organizers, technicians and merchants, speculators and schemers, cutthroats and organizers of all kinds of prostitution: Germans, French, Belgians, Italians, English and Americans would rush to the aid of places these or nearby Russians, Poles, Armenians, Greeks, and finally the most numerous and important Jews of all. The entire League of Nations would gather here...
All these elements, with the participation of smarter, more proficient in business Ukrainians, would create a leading layer, the country's elite. However, it would be a special elite, because probably no country could boast such a rich collection of international scumbags.
Ukraine would become an ulcer on Europe's body; and people dreaming of creating a cultured, healthy and strong Ukrainian nation, maturing in their own state, would find that instead of their own state, they have an international enterprise, and instead of healthy development, a rapid progress of decay and rottenness.
The Ukrainian question has various advocates, both in Ukraine itself and abroad. Especially among the latter there are many who know very well what they are going for. There are, however, those who see the solution of this issue by separating Ukraine from Russia in a very idyllic way. The naive ones would do best to keep their hands off her.
Not true... Khrushchev was a Russian, born close to Ukraine, who was kind of "Ukrainised" later, when he became top party leader in Ukraine (and married an Ukrainian as a second wife). Breazhnev was born in a place which is Ukraine now, but was a part of Imperial Russia then, and his parents moved there from a region which was and is Russian still. He considered himself a Russian.
Most importantly, there is no "one" Ukraine. This is a fresh country, still in the process of gaining a national definition. The biggest division is to Eastern and Western Ukraine, and even "Ukrainised" Khrushchev didn't know, and made many personal mistakes by sending Eastern Ukrainians to take care of Western Ukraine, and vice versa.
Anyway, if they want to gain an identity based on such historical evilness as Banderites, and current lying regime's action, I don't see any bright future for them (*). I suppose the land will be made clean of Ukrainians (or Russians), in order to accommodate other people, like Khazars and Jews (which may be a plan, but its completion is far from certain). That's why the governments of Ukraine and its allies doesn't really care about Ukrainian people or statehood.
*) Unless you count a flash from nuclear explosions
If I were an Ukranian male, I would definitely be a dodger.
Truely astonishing that this can be done to a population.
Even the Germans themselves were truly astonished, what these Ukrainians were capable of. But they had them for the dirtiest work, after all.
All these elements, with the participation of smarter, more proficient in business Ukrainians, would create a leading layer, the country's elite. However, it would be a special elite, because probably no country could boast such a rich collection of international scumbags.
Ukraine would become an ulcer on Europe's body; and people dreaming of creating a cultured, healthy and strong Ukrainian nation, maturing in their own state, would find that instead of their own state, they have an international enterprise, and instead of healthy development, a rapid progress of decay and rottenness.
What more can be said? At this moment in time, it's become a Jewish swindler's pardise!