Russia hid details about the mass starvation on an unimaginable scale by Stalin in the 1930s and afterward until archives were opened following Ukraine’s independence in 1991. Ukraine is a nation interrupted, its identity and promise stolen by invaders and predators for centuries. Ukraine’s principle oppressor has been, and remains, Russia where leaders like Vladimir Putin propagate the fiction that Ukraine is “little Russia”. But the two are distinctive and the Ukrainian language is as different from Russian as is Spanish from French. Putin’s postulation is not only inaccurate, but deeply hurtful and insulting, given the historical and ongoing abuse …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
