UKRAINE - Russia’s Long Quest to Subjugate Ukraine — Part One - EUGEN FKNKEL

Russia’s Long Quest to Subjugate Ukraine — Part OneEugene Finkel, author of Intent to Destroy: Russia’s 200-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine, traces the deep historical roots of Russia’s effort to dominate Ukraine, beginning with the 17th-century Cossack leader Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the imperial project under Catherine the Great, as Moscow systematically dismantled Ukrainian autonomy. Finkel details the 1930s Holodomor famine engineered by Joseph Stalin to break Ukrainian peasant resistance, alongside Soviet industrialization and Nikita Khrushchev’s 1954 transfer of the Crimean peninsula to Ukraine. (1)