Now in Thailand, we are having a big protest ongoing since last November but Thailand is not only place in the world that has a huge protest ongoing. Ukraine also faces the biggest protest in the decade also and it's likely that it's going to escalate into a domestic unrest or a civil war as the news in
BBC News said.
According to "Ukraine crisis: Fears grow over Sloviansk offensive", the fear that the city may be taken rising in the mind of people of Sloviansk, one of many pro-Russia city in Eastern Ukraine , as Ukrainian so-called "Anti-terror" forces cut off main roads into the city.The article also tells us about the violence on last Friday in the Southern port town of Odessa which kills 40 people and left 60 people under arrest.
From this news, I think the the Ukrainian are now facing a dilemma between being "Borderlands" of the Russians like Belarus or being a "pro-West Eastern European state" like Poland and Romania. Ukraine was called "lesser Russia" for centuries and their mother tongue, Ukrainian, is the sister language of Russian. But the Ukrainians have a negative attitude towards the Russian that because Russian governments including Tsar's Government and The Soviets especially Stalin oppressed Ukrainian people and culture. Russian Empire banned Ukrainian from the education.In an effort to industrialize the Soviet Union, Stalin forced people of the USSR.,including the Ukrainians to worked in his collective farms. This effort caused the massive famine around the Soviets Land which killed million of Ukrainian. The Soviet regime also has been accused for intentionally staged the famine in Ukraine to destroy Ukrainian nationalism. Ukraine also suffer a lot form the Second World War because the Nazis planned that the Land of Ukraine would be a new homeland for their Aryan Master Race and the Ukrainian were to be removed. In the war the Ukrainian fought both Soviets and Nazis.
Since the downfall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine had been increasingly polarized between Pro-Russian agenda which was supported by Party of the Regions led by the ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, the Communists and ethic Russian in eastern part of the country and Pro-West agenda which supported by Nationalist, some Neo-Fascist and the western Ukrainians. I think this problem is very alarming that its may cause Ukraine to brake-up into two state,the Pro West one and Pro Russian one. Which will be benefit both the Western powers and the Russian but the true loser will be the Ukrainians .
Ukraine crisis: Fears grow over Sloviansk offensive. (2014, May 5). BBC News Europe. Retrieved May 5, 2014 12:38 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27280814
I am sorry to inform you that I didn't know that BBC keep update the news and my article "Ukraine crisis: Fears grow over Sloviansk offensive" was changed and I can not find this news on BBC anymore.
ReplyDeleteBut you can read this on http://newtelegraphonline.com/ukraine-crisis-fears-grow-sloviansk-offensive/
Mek,
DeleteYour chosen article is a good example of why we sometimes need to add a date in the retrieval information for our reference citation. Sometimes sources change.
For a source that is not expected to change, for example, most BBC News articles that are more than a few days old, we don't need to add the retrieval date. But for something like this one, it is essential.
I wonder: would it be a bad thing for the Ukraine to split into two if different regions really are seriously divided?
ReplyDeleteThey might then be able to work together more successfully on things that matter to both, such as trade, whilst choosing different policies on most matters, such as education, health, and the like. This seems to me to work well in the US, where 50 largely independent states make up their own laws, run their own police forces, health departments, and so on, and yet work together on larger issues. It also seems to be working well for the members of the EEC, who whilst largely independent nations with their own laws, cultures and so on, profitably work together on issues that affect the whole region.
Might division into two separate countries actually be a good solution for the people of Ukraine?
But I have to confess that I have not followed this situation very carefully, so I really don't know the details. Mek's post was very useful for filling in the background that I didn't know.
i like history and politics, but history and politics always ignore their citizens, who are the most suffering, history and politics are only about important people, who are flourishing.
ReplyDeletefor Ukraine, i have to confess that i'm not an expert as well as Peter (LOL), but i think that countries in those area, eastern Europe, particularly the countries which used to be combined with Soviet, usually have severe conflict due to diversity of race, religion and political preference. so, there were civil war and holocaust taken place many times. However, the world cannot memorises those who died, there have been only their family can and sorrow over them. i hope that any serious violence, like it used to be, will never happen to Ukraine, and also Thailand.