Galicia, Volhynia, and Eastern Ruthenia SHOULD secede from Ukraine and join the EU, and NATO if they wish.
Even today, when you are traveling in the Old Empire, you can recognize where you are. Krakau, Lemberg, Prag, no matter - you know where you are just by looking around.
L’viv (Lwow, Lemberg) was never Russian and never will be.
Stalin arbitrarily chopped off parts of Poland to make it more manageable.
Putin has a point when he said the Communists repeatedly redrew national boundaries without paying attention to the ethnic composition of the population or national interests involved.
Ukraine is an artificial state. I’ll be surprised if it lasts in its current form.
Galicia, Volhynia, and Eastern Ruthenia SHOULD secede from Ukraine and join the EU, and NATO if they wish.
A lot of central and eastern european borders are FUBAR. I think it’s better to let sleeping dogs lie than start some more shooting wars over them.
Interesting that Zhirinovsky did not offer Vilnius to Poland. I guess they plan on keeping that one!