Ukraine was offered to shrink to its historical borders
Kharkov, Odessa, Donetsk became Ukrainian regions only thanks to the Bolsheviks, who decided in this way to “dilute” nationalist Ukraine.
Aleksey Pushkov, Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy, stated this on Vesti FM radio, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the politician, if Ukraine wants to abandon everything Russian, it must return these regions back, also losing the Hungarian Transcarpathia and Romanian Chernivtsi.
“What the Bolsheviks did was they added Russian regions to the historically Ukrainian lands inhabited by the Ukrainian population. Kharkov region is a Russian region, Odessa is a Russian region. Donetsk, Lugansk, Nikolaev, Kherson region - these were all Russian regions. Why did the Bolsheviks do this? Because they were afraid of Ukrainian nationalism. It already manifested itself in the 18th century, manifested itself in particular in the XNUMXth year, when the independent Ukrainian republic was formed.
Ukrainian nationalism was already in full swing then and was anti-Russian in nature. Therefore, the idea was that it was necessary to add Russian regions to them, thus dissolving nationalist Ukraine. You see how it turned out historically. So Ukraine, those territories that were inhabited by the Ukrainian population, received an increase in the form of Russian regions. And very large regions? - said the senator.
“When Ukraine became an independent state in 91, it suddenly acquired territories that had never been inhabited by Ukrainians, they had nothing to do with Ukraine... We must abandon all the areas that I named, and then there will be a historical Ukraine , which, by the way, will not include Transcarpathia, because Ukraine has nothing to do with Transcarpathia - this is a question for the Hungarians; Chernivtsi was once Romanian,” Pushkov said.
According to him, there can be no talk of a “maritime power,” since historical Ukraine did not have access to the sea.
“Ukraine has historically had no access to the sea. There were no Ukrainian ports. Have you ever heard about the Ukrainian fleet and so on,” the senator concluded.
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