What the Soviet power made the Ukraine of
April 9 (21), 2014.
The ignorance of current journalists and politicians, including Vladimir Putin, who said on the show "Ask Putin" on April 4 (17), 2014 that Kharkov is in Novorossia, made me make these exact maps. But Putin is not guilty of that because he has a Soviet education, he is generally a Soviet man, not a Russian.
Map 1. What the Ukraine is made of.
In 1918, the leader of the Bolsheviks Leiba Bronstein, a companion of another leader Vladimir Ulyanov, whose monuments were so fiercely demolished by the "ukrainians", exclaimed: "I made the Ukraine!" So what did the communists make the Ukraine of?
By the way, the very old Slavic word “ѹкраина” (Ukraine) means “edge” or “margin”, an edge of Russia. For example, centuries ago today's Moscow area was called “Залѣсская украина”, that is “edge behind the forest”. So there was the Ukraine in Russia before the Soviet power, but there were no "Ukrainians", no "Marginals", all were Russians.
On the map, we see the historical regions of the Russian Empire, Poland, Austria-Hungary and Romania, from which the Communists created the Soviet Ukraine.
Taurida (the Crimean peninsula) was last annexed to the Soviet Ukraine in 1954.
The numbers indicate the following provinces of the historical Russia:
1 - Minsk province
2 - Kursk province
3 - Land of the Don Army
4 - Bessarabian province (a part of Novorossia)
The different colors indicate the regions of the Soviet Ukraine.
In the first half of the 17th century, Malorussians (subethnos of Russians) fled from Poland to Russia and settled with the permission of Czar Alexei on lands called Slobozhanshchina. Now these are Kharkov and Sumy regions.
Moreover, for twenty years they have been asking the Russian Czar to annex all of Little Russia to Russia. Finally, in 1653, the Czar (monarch), the Boyars duma (aristocracy) and the Zemstvo cathedral (democracy), after a year's discussion of the issue, agreed to annex Little Russia to the Russian Empire. Russia paid for this decision with a 13-year war with Poland. These are the Poltava province, half of the Chernigov province and Kiev with its environs.
During the reign of Catherine II, Russia returned the western parts of Little Russia, Belorussia and Podillia, taken by Poland in previous centuries.
As a result of the two Russian-Turkish wars of the Catherine era, Russia expeled the Ottoman Turks from the Northern Black Sea region, mastered the so-called Wild Field and thereby acquired huge Novorossia, including Taurida. Now it is about seven regions of the Soviet Ukrainian SSR, Taurida and Moldavia.
In 1918 the Soviet power surrendered during World War I. Germany occupied southern Russian lands, including part of the Don Army Land. On all these lands, except Taurida, the Bolshevik leaders Leiba Bronstein and Vladimir Ulyanov created the Soviet Ukraine. True, Bronstein's "feat" is disputed by his German rival, general and diplomat Max Hoffmann. He said at the same time: "In reality, the Ukraine is the work of my hands, and not at all the creation of the conscious will of the Russian people. No one else, like me, created the Ukraine to be able to make peace at least with one part of Russia". Let Ashkenaz and German argue among themselves, which of them created the Ukraine. But in one the honest, educated German is absolutely right: the Ukraine, of course, is part of Russia.
In 1939, Joseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin) captured and annexed Galicia to the Soviet Ukraine and returned western Volyn, formerly in Poland.
In 1940, Stalin captured and annexed to the Soviet Ukraine Northern Bukovina, formerly in Romania after the collapse of Austria-Hungary.
In 1945, Stalin captured and annexed to the Soviet Ukraine Carpathian Russia, which had previously been in Czechoslovakia after the collapse of Austria-Hungary.
In 1945, Stalin returned Southern Bessarabia, formerly in Romania, and also annexed it to the Ukraine.
In 1954, Nikita Khrushchev transferred Taurida (the Crimean peninsula) from the RF to the Ukrainian SSR.
Map 2. From Little Russia of Bogdan Khmelnitsky to the Soviet Ukraine.
On the right, we see Little Russia (marked in red) after its voluntary entry into Russian Empire and the Russian-Polish War 1654-1667. It included the Poltava province, the southern half of the Chernigov province and the city of Kiev with its environs. All the rest of the Soviet Ukraine was added by the Soviet power, by the communists.
On the left, we see the lands (marked in red) which were acquired (conquered) by Russia for the first time under the Soviet rule, by Joseph Stalin in 1939-45, and annexed to the Soviet Ukraine: Galicia (Lvov, Stanislav, Ternopol), Northern Bukovina (Chernovtsy) and Carpathian Russia (Uzhgorod). Galicia, apparently, will have to be returned to Poland, or it will be what will remain of the former Soviet Ukraine. And the Carpathian Ruthenians and Bukovinians will choose their own fate themselves.
Galicia has never in history belonged to either the Russian Empire or the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Russia. Galicia has been part of Poland since the 14th century. Galicia was indeed conquered, captured in World War II, in 1939, but to our misfortune, not by the good old, Christian Russia, but by Russian-communist invaders who were worse than the so-called "German-fascist invaders."
By the way, the German fascists and the Russians never fought against each other because the fascist movement in Germany was banned by Adolf Hitler in 1934.
Therefore, such an unsuccessful return of ancient Russian lands to the Russian state after six centuries of their stay in the West turned out to be fruitless. The Soviet state itself was an enemy of the Russians. For 73 years, the Communists fatly fed and propagated the artificial "Ukrainian nation."
And then, for 23 years after the Soviet power, the last communists in Moscow tried by all means to combine what is impossible to combine - Russian traditions and Soviet uglinesses, the ominous ziggurat on the Nice (Red) Square and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the red five-pointed stars of Bronstein on the Kremlin towers and the Order of St. George, the imperial tricolor and the Soviet anthem... That further alienated Galicia.
But Galicia will return to Poland only with the same "dowry suitcase" with which the Soviet Russia conquered it. Galicia will have to part with all the land gifts of the Soviet government, whose monuments "Ukrainians" so fiercely demolish.
Map 3. Novorossia.
Novorossia is the historical region of the Russian Empire, acquired mainly during the reign of Catherine II as a result of two Russian-Turkish wars. The Potemkin cities are its main centers.
Novorossia began with the city of Elisavetgrad, founded by Czarina Elisaveta in 1754. Novorossia took finally shape after the liberation of the Principality of Moldavia from the Ottomans in 1812. Before the revolution, Novorossia covered four provinces - Yekaterinoslav, Taurida (Simferopol), Cherson and Bessarabia (Chisinau).
The toponym "Novorossia" does not come from the name of the city of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea coast. Vladimir Putin said at a press conference in 2014 that Novorossia was so named after the city of Novorossiysk. It is another confirmation that he had no preparation, no plan to seize the Crimea. Simferopol and all of Taurida just unexpectedly fell on his head.
After the partition of Russia (USSR) in 1991, Slobozhanshchina (Kharkov province) and Novorossia (even without Bessarabia) make up half of the territory and population of the former Ukrainian SSR. Odessa was the third city in the empire in wealth and overtook Yekaterinoslav, founded by Lightest Prince Potemkin of Taurida as the main city of Novorossia, as the southern St. Petersburg. Kiev was only the eighth city until the communists made it the "capital" of the Ukrainian SSR.
Map 4. Continental Taurida.
And another remark. After the reunification of Taurida with Russia, the Ukrainian propaganda thought up the phrase "mainland Ukraine", as if there was some kind of "island Ukraine" or "overseas Ukraine" in addition. In fact, there is the continental Taurida. It is the left bank of the Dnieper River from its mouth to the town of Berdyansk. Three more counties were subordinate to Simferopol, these are the cities of Melitopol, Berdyansk, Genichesk, Skadovsk, Aleshki (Ukrainian-Bolshevik name: Tsyurupinsk) and Kakhovka.
Brief history of Taurida