Conceived by Bolsheviks?
WTF?
Are you some kind of History professor?
You assume a lot there.
Sorry eleni— Ukraine was not “conceived by Bolsheviks” (unless you are referring to the post Tsarist Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine- so named by the Communist Revolutionary leadership.
The area of Ukraine has been inhabited since at least 32,000 BC from all archaeological evidence. In the Middle Ages it was the middle of an Eastern Slavic culture. and a formal state was created known as the Kievan Rus’ (as in.. Russians of the Kiev) Ukrainian identity going back in history stems from this powerful Middle Age tribe and state. In the 13th century, the territory was fought over and divided up by Lithuania, Poland, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and the Romanov Tsars of Russia (for more than 300 years) . In the Tsarist Ukraine- the fierce Cossack Republic emerged and prospered during the 17th and 18th centuries, and the migratory tribal nature of the Cossack’s territory broken up by warfare of Poland and Tsarist Russia, with the Cossacks famously being blood loyal to the Tsars, through Romanov marriage and treaty.
The Cossacks were much feared by the Bolsheviks (and their descendants compose much of the current anti-Communist Ukrainian Independence that wants nothing to to with Russian Commies (the fake Putinists/Stalinists)) and only have ties to the Russian/Ukrainian Orthodox olde Russian heritage.
These same descendants remember quite well Stalin and Lenin’s starvation murder of some 10 Million (yes, 10MM+) Ukrainians by the Soviet secret police the NKVD who stole all their grain and animals and killed them off in less than 10 months. They HATE commie bastards, as we all should.
Here endeth the history lesson. Amongst these are obviously corrupt thugs— who are part of the Russian oligarchy machinery (that sells energy) to try to hold onto Ukraine for power, and take advantage (like islamo fascists and afghanis) of the money that can be made from war.