Russia and Ukraine

Remember Crimea in 2014? Well we know that it;s not a part of Ukraine anymore. So much for peaceful relations between Ukraine and Russia. We know historically that Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, following the Marxist-Leninist model.

Ukraine had once been an empire itself before it was absorbed into the Russian Empire. Through the centuries, the ethnic Ukrainians spread out, with pockets of them spread all over Russia and into the far east. That of course, is because of the Russians forcing the Ukrainians to spread out. Thus, to this day, when we look at amap of Ukrainians around the world, we see this:

And this is 1926:

After the dissolution of the Russian Empire, the Ukrainian Soviet War occurred in where the two fighting factions, xx x xs= struggled for independence, which ended with the Ukrainian People's Republic (East Ukraine) into the USSR as the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic and Ukraine Soviet Republic (rest of Ukraine) merging with the Second Polish Republic. Note that it is the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic and not the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic. The name was changed to the latter in December of 1936, and ratified in January of 1937.

  This conflict known as the Ukrainian–Soviet War was part of the ongoing Russian Civil War and a struggle for national independence, which ended with the Ukrainian People's Republic being annexed into the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (Ukrainian: УСРР), western Ukraine being absorbed into the Second Polish Republic, and the newly stable Ukraine becoming a founding member of the Soviet Union.