Modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia or, to be more precise, by Bolshevik, Communist Russia, Vladimir Putin said in his historic address on recognition of Donbass on Monday.
This process started practically right after the 1917 revolution, and Lenin and his associates did it in a way that was extremely harsh on Russia – by separating, severing what is historically Russian land. Nobody asked the millions of people living there what they thought," he added.
Putin continued his historical excursion with a description of events both before and after the Great Patriotic War.
"Stalin incorporated in the USSR and transferred to Ukraine some lands that previously belonged to Poland, Romania and Hungary. In the process, he gave Poland part of what was traditionally German land as compensation, and in 1954, Khrushchev took Crimea away from Russia for some reason and also gave it to Ukraine. In effect, this is how the territory of modern Ukraine was formed," he noted.
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