Why didn't Ukraine get Independence after World War 1?
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Why didn't Ukraine get Independence after World War 1?
The first major domino to fall can be identified as the October Revolution which occurred in Russia in 1917. After overthrowing the Czar in March, the Bolsheviks next aimed to overthrow the provisional government that took over. With Vladimir Lenin at the helm, the revolutionaries hoped to replace the ruling bourgeois class with a Bolshevik communist regime in a coup d’etat that led to a full-blown civil war. This conflict would carry on until 1923, but Lenin had already established his own government in Russia and they were on the way to forming the Soviet Union…
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Can we get a series on the Russian Civil War?
Hey guys, for project Ukraine, will there be any history on Bandera or the neo-nazi element? I bet that will get left out.
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A great video! This is such a confusing period in Eastern Europe, heck, European, history so to have it laid out so clearly is really helpful!
Exactly.
How about you show support to dombass and luhansk
@@terrorgaming459 what are you getting at
@@terrorgaming459 nah they Ukrainian land
To say it was a mess after WW1 would be a gross understatement.......
Glad to have been a part of this project and encountered so many different channels who came together for something so great :D
This was such an amazing experience for us, so proud to be part of this project! Great video as always!
Great video! But I think it was needed to mention about Kruty battle. It was a really important battle where mostly students-volounteers fought against Bolshevicks, it stopped red army's offensive for 6 hours and helped UNR government to evacuate from Kyiv to Brest-Litovsk. Without this battle UNR wouldn't be able to evacuate from Kyiv to sign the treaty with Central powers. So without this battle this history would have been ended at 1918 winter.
u missed a lot of things, the war betwen poland and ukraine, the soviets reaching warsav, the polish reaching kiev, the white army in the south west (east)
With all my favorite History channels being apart of this important and exciting project, it’s needless to say that I’m absolutely excited for Project Ukraine! I’m looking forward all the future videos!
That isnt even the Ukraine map! Crimea didnt belong to Ukraine 1920!! You call yourself history channel, but your nothing more than a propaganda tool!!!
This is an amazing initiative. I am proud to be part of this collaboration and hoping we can make a little bit of a difference to some people’s lives.
Fake ukraine history
Ukraine did not gain independence because the POLISH AGAIN FORGOT THAT GALYČYNA AND LVIV IS NOT POLAND!
the map you use for ukraine in this time peroid is wrong
Yeah, but, i mean, for western viewers is ok
man 1917-1919 in Ukraine (and eastern europe) was a confusing period. There were too many things happening at the same time
but you're right, if the map was depicted more accurately, it would include some cities that today are in Russia and pinsk. This channel isn't really known for having the most accurate maps. But I don't blame them, as at least they explain the things decently, and the maps are pretty acceptable when you remember of how many vides they have.
“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.”
― Aberjhani,
Hmm: 2 observations
1. The Crimea is shown as pare of Ukraine in 1919. It was not. It was added to Ukraine in 1950
2. After the end of WWII Ukraine was given parts of Poland (which was actually shifted westwards), Slovakia and Romania
Crimea was always part of Ukraine. It was from before Catherine the Great's conquest of Ukraine all the way through to the modern day.
@@Last555555555 tell this to the Crimean Khanate and the Tatars who lived there.
@@Last555555555 Crimea was always a part of Ukraine?? I guess you skipped on pretty much all history lessons in school.
@@epitemus4220 Crimea was a part of Ukraine BEFORE the Tartars arrived there. From the times of Scythian states. So Crimea is the land of Ukrainians and Crimea Tartars. muscovian occupiers will be OUT.
@@thetruechaby lol apparently you were fed propaganda in your history lessons in school
I am Ukrainian and I want to thank you for this video. Of course you didn't add some details but I think it would be better if added: battle of Cruty, tell more adout universals, Kyiv's catastrophe, the Ukrainian death triangle etc. but don't worry I am not angry with you. That's very wonderful that you tell everyone about Ukraine. Ukraine won't be Russian marionette. Ukraine was, is, and will be independent. Glory to Ukraine!
🤣 you're so full of ..it, your eyes must be brown
You really think thet Ukraine was or wil be independed ? Even if you push back Russians . You have Nato and Eu on you neck . Ukraine after this , win or lose , will never be the same again . I think better choise for you was Russia , but okey . Nato and Eu will give you only Weapons coz they have profit of it and empty land . Maybe they give you Credits to rebuild your land ,but you can get it also from Chine . Im from Serbia , im sad when i see our brothers fighting each other . Belive me , Serbia is candidat for EU and NATO , belive , they didnt give as nothing , not a single Roud . If Ukraine join EU , It means they will drain real money ( Food , clear Water , Enegretic , Minrals etc. ) and give you DOLLAR . Western elite will instal thier Monopol system in your land and you will more poor as today . God bless you and your ppl , but i support Russia , its right side in this comflict , comfict until the last Ukrainan alive . EU and Nato should send you food and drink , not only weapons . Look how many Senators in America have bouth actions from Weapon Indrusty ...
@@mamojebac111 well If you know something about Bucha and what did Russians then you understand. If not well they killed all citizens in Hostomel, Bucha, and blockaded Mariupol and killed most of the citizens. Izum Irpin Chornibaivka Melitopol are the same situation. They make a genocide of Ukrainian. I don't want to be Russian after that.
@@mamojebac111 EU and NATO are better variant than Russia. They don't want to occupy us comparatively Russia.
@@Emily-ou6lq you guess.
First I’m a big fan of your channel to, thanks for uploading daily best of luck for u in the future
UNR government had become exiled and in 1991 when Ukraine restored its independence the last president of UNR gave the president of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk the hetman's mace. It was a symbolic transition of power.
What if he gave it to Ukrainian SSR leader earlier?
@@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija He couldn't as UNR constitution talks about free and independent Ukraine. Ukrainian SSR wasn't free
@@glorytoukraine2760 ok
Was looking forward to a video like this that explained this topic more. Thanks for making this.
This story reminds me of the history of my own country Georgia, that suffered the same fate fighting against the odds and trying to get rid of shuckels of the Russian leviathan.
Georgia and Ukraine have same problem - russia in neighborhood
@@slieder4856 Russia itself is not a problem, its government is
@@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija few centuries long lineage of different russian empire/bolshevik/russian GOVERNMENTS. Sounds legit lol
@@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija and who does the government represent? Truth is that even if Russians get fair elections they will still elect Putin or someone like him
Show me more sad history in Europe, that Ukraine😥
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your video is wrong in that Crimea was not part of Ukraine in 1917 neither was some f the easter provinces
You think this guy knows history?
This video fits in very well with my own, and helps to explain how Lenin's positive view on Ukrainian self-determination was discarded after his death.
Stalin and his Soviet Union killed millions of Ukrainians. What a terrible piece of 💩 he was.
He's literally the one that forced it to join the Soviet Union. The hero worship of Lenin is both delusional and idiotic.
@@salahabdalla368 Lenin’s policies of self-determination were discarded after his death by Stalin who began the Russification of the Soviet Union
@@festamonroe Lenin died 1924. These events were 1917-1921. Before Stalin times. Lenin was not a saint. Lenin was just another TSAR. Absolute ruler.
@@salahabdalla368 I know, but still, he enforced policies of Russification
An amazing work!love this collab between history channels
The russians just dont understand it
Excellent History videos, keep it up! i love watching these
Why this video ignored The Polish-Ukrainian War, from November 1918 to July 1919?
And the truth that Poland had annexed west Ukraine afterwards, that land was finally take back by USSR, and return it to nowadays Ukraine.
Just check the history.
Therefore don't know the intension for someone to make this video trying to manipulate history facts.
These west lands are Polish lands.
@@dekoral1188 - 🤓
@@tekinet7958 Sad
bro, i don't think they're manipulating facts. This period is just too confusing to adress everytjhing in a short video, they probably considered that the war against Poland wouldn't be important enough for the topic (which is not something I think is right to do). But in the sense that it was important and should at least have been mentioned there and explained, I agree with you.
@@dekoral1188 Volhynia was home to both ukrainian and polish communities. While Lviv (Lwów) and other cities were majority polish, the countryside and some towns around the majoritaly polish cities were ethnically ukrainian. But there were many people who would have been influenced, genetically and/or culturally, by both of the groups, wether they recognized it or not.
Nice video, but it is confusing without more context. I was really confused when I first watched it. There were two Brest-Livtosk treaties signed under same umbrella. One between the UNR and Central Powers (9-Feb-1918) and another between Bolsheviks and Central Powers (3-March-1918). The UPR declared sovereignty in Jan 1918 (under general Russian Revolution) and signed a treaty 9-Feb-1918 with Central Powers to get foreign aid to fight Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks signed a treaty with Central Powers on 3-March-1918 to get out of WW1, whereby it ceded the Baltics to Germany, who already occupied much of it, and granted (perhaps grudgingly - murky) Ukraine its independence. Germany provided foreign aid to Ukraine to perhaps help fight some Bolsheviks who persisted, in exchange for food. Germany said Ukraine reneged on the deal, whereby it installed a puppet government in Ukraine. The UNR attacked the Germans. A 12-June-1918 peace deal between the UNR and Bolsheviks is mentioned. The 11-Nov-1918 armistice ended WW1. Following that Bolshevik Russia annulled the treaty and laid claim to the Baltics and Ukraine and sent troops back into Ukraine. The Russian Civil War ended in June 1923. This is a confusing period and I'm just trying to understand it. Respectfully.
it is blatantly obvious from the intro that this video is just propaganda. sorry for you to uphold expectations for them like that
Lenin was sent to Russia by Germany to oust the tsar and destroy Russia so it can no longer fight on the eastern front
I think that the Bolsheviks re-occupied Ukraine because of the loss of Germany and Austria in the war, and therefore there was no longer any other party to the treaty, that the vacuum they exploited.
Incorrect map of Ukraine.
Make a video on Romania and Moldova and how russian communism created the superficial moldovan identity to separate them from romanians. Would be interesting.
That’s not entirely true, Moldova was a identity and state as far back as the times of Micheal The Brave (beast) and John Hunyadi, Vlad The Impaler etc and beyond ...
@@cjthebeesknees Thats a understandable missinterpretation. Although Moldova as a medieval state did exist, people there viewed themselves as romanians thats is backed by western travelers from the 16th century that did visit the country and reported people calling themselves "romans". The same goes for Wallachia and Transylvania. As in Moldova people there didnt view themselves as separate people from the other 2 romanian states.
Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanians
"Another one is Francesco della Valle's 1532 manuscripts that state that the Romanians from Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania preserved the name "Roman" and cites the sentence "Sti Rominest?". "
Thats why although the Moldovan state did exist, the moldovan ethnicity/language did not. Same as a wallachian or transylvanian ethnicity or language never existed. Romanians only use the names of transylvanian, muntenian or moldovan to describe from which region they are to other romanians.
The ethnicity "moldovan" is a invention from soviet times and still supported by russian communist nostalgics and victims of propaganda in the R. of Moldova.
The language "moldovan" also does not exist and is an invented term, its just romanian as it is also stated in the R. of Moldova constitution. Yes romanian is officially recognized by the moldavian state as their language but again russian propagandists call it moldovan and spread this mythos.
During the gain of independence the anthem adopted by R. of Moldova was the same as that of Romania: "Awaken Romanian!" that was later changed bc of the protest of (surprise) russian communist nostalgics.
Since then this fake narrative of a moldovan ethnicity and language is being pushed by the pro russian and communist nostalgics in R. of Moldova. With rather less success as each year support of a union with Romania grows, polls showing a all time high of nearly 50% by end of 2021.
Source: timpul.md/articol/43-9-din-cetatenii-r-moldova-isi-doresc-unirea-cu-romania-sondaj-demolator-pentru-moldovenistii-primitivi-163632.html
@@cjthebeesknees so was wallachia, but wallachian culture isnt a thing, bc it was romanian all along. Same thing with moldova, but they got heavily russofied by russian colonizers after ww2.
Educate urself first before you comment..
@@AdrianRO1918 Exactly
So WHen are we gonna do this same sentiment for the people of Haiti? Congo? Ethiopia? Why only for ukraine?
Congratulations on 1 million 🥳
bots maybe
@@Nift502 wha?
I'm Ukrainian watching this video, while staying in Kyiv during yet another Ukraine - Russia war.
It resembles an ABBA's song lyrics. "The history book on the shelf is always repeating itself"
But this time we will win. Because now the second army of the world have met with best army of the world.
You will win our hearts and sympathy. But not this war.
How is it there now?
Thank you for this video!
Now do one on "why was Poland sold to the communists when world war 2 was started over Hitlers invasion of Poland".
That one is simple both germany and ussr signed the molotov ribbentrop pact. The pact granted non agression between then and the division of Poland and the baltic states. Hitler did that to avoid a two front war.
The allies didn't see it productive to go to war with Russia when clearly Russia was the best mainland guard against the nazis
@@arthurlofrano7021 wtf are you talking about? I'm referring to the Yalta Conference of Hypocrites.
FYI Patton wanted to keep going taking Berlin and crushing Communism at the same time.
Somehow he died from a mysterious "blood clot" that went to his heart 🤔
@@JohnSmith-is4uu oh sorry, i thought it was about the molotov ribbentrop. But in yalta the polish were sold to the soviets pretty much because the USSR had full control of the east and a full war with the soviets was scrapped out of the allied plans since the Russian were much stronger than before and were even invading the japanese Manchuria down to North Korea.
ussr was too strong for the allies to oppose and traty between poland and france and britain were made in case of german invasion of poland not the soviet
Great video. Loving this collaboration (even if loosely) between all the best YT channels
Extremely unaccurate maps!
This all sounds very familiar...
You should also mention Nestor Makhno.
I'm from Ukraine. HISTORY OF MY NATIVE NATION.THANK
Everything is very flat. Author designated the territories that Ukraine did not own, and due to the specifics of the submission, many probably think that it controlled them. And did not try to find a normal map of the UPR, and put in a modern one. Do you express such "respect" to Ukraine? And how without famine and "terror"?
The project as a whole raises many questions: What the hell? YOU are hypocritical Western media, probably would NEVER make a video about Ukraine as such. And don’t think, I’m not against Ukraine as a country, nation, people, or how you measure people there, but you have to be blind not to see how people found out that Borsch is called Ukrainian, because there is a country, and it was attacked evil Russia!! Nobody knows about 8 years in Donbass, About the right sector (Praviy Sector) (Правый Сектор), Azov Battalion, Statues of terrorists and glorifying them. Tragedy in Odessa and much, and much more.
Grateful for this Playlist! @Kings and Generals & Company!!
They deserves independence 💯
people who say "Ukraine should choose peace over independence, it's naive to let so many people die to be independent, they should be realistic and just accept Russia's term" don't know the history
when this keeps happening over and over and over again at one point you have to stand up for yourself, not to mention peace for them means giving up Luhansk and Donetsk to Russia, alongside with Crimea, that's like 25%-35% of their country and also demilitarization, cutting most of the ties with EU and other concessions which basically means they're gonna be at best a third world country with big chunks of their territory cut and given to Russia.
you really have to be insane if you know all this and you still think Russia is actually fair to them.
I am afraid that Ukraine already lost Crimea and Donbas and will lose even more territories. Unfortunately time is on Russia's side. Even so, Ukraine has earned the respect of the entire world. While Russia has lost face.
@@dragosstanciu9866 No, you are wrong. The time is fully on Ukrainian side. The end of na-z-i muscovy is close and then it will be partitioned and liquidated.
@@dragosstanciu9866 Time is on Ukraines side. With every day Kyiv remains in their hands, it’s a political victory for them. Not to mention the superior Western equipment that’s being sent their way every day.
@@jackparker8602 I don't think Putin cares too much about Kiev. Most likely he wants to conquer south Ukraine, split the country in two, and eliminate Ukraine's exit to the Black Sea.
Should russia accept peace over independence? Ukraine has simped for nato long enough russians wont sit and watch them encroach for another 30 years until they are nothing.
2:33 why is it the modern Ukrainian borders just without lyiv and Odessa
Because in 1918 Galicia was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Western parts used to be an another state known as Western Ukrainian People Republic and been reunited with Ukrainian People Republic in 1919.
this is a very interesting topic imo it has to do with many thing about mostly with the soviet like they did not wanted that ukraine be a free country and sadly they never got there own country man
Someone really do need a series about the Russian Civil War and the fall of the Russian Empire
no in this times bc most of population will stupidly see him as a russian supporter and thats sad this world is full of ukrainan supporters that wants ban everything thats russian (sorry for bad english)
there was no "civil war" - it was occupation!
Those dang Bolsheviks! Thank you for shedding light on this vital topic
I live in Przemyśl Poland 12km from Ukraine.
7:08 Lithuania and the Soviets collaborated in 1920, so the arrow led by the Baltic states is far wrong
Maps in this video are completely inaccurate as well
Lithuania never "collaborated" with the soviets. It was only the coexistence after the Treaty of Peace signed on 12th of July, 1920. This treaty (and similar treaties of Finland, Estonia and Latvia) was signed with the support and approbation of Allies.
@@arturasandriusaitis8832 In July 1920, the Lithuanians crossed the Foch line designated as a form of compromise between Lithuania-Poland-Entente, they captured Trakai, seriously hindering the Polish troops retreat to the west against the Soviet offensive. As part of the July treaty, there was a clause allowing the Soviets to pass through Lithuanian territory during battles with Poland, and did not intern them when they withdrew after the Battle of Warsaw. It's hard to call it non-cooperation, as Alfred Senn put it well, saying that although there was no written alliance, Lithuanians were definitely not neutral.
@@kacperq1987 "As part of the July treaty, there was a clause allowing the Soviets to pass through Lithuanian territory during battles with Poland"
This part of Lithuanian territory was previously occupied by Poland (must to be returned by the soviets according the Peace Treaty). It wasn't controlled by the Lithuanian Army. Lithuania couldn't prevent the soviet move there. What you write here is the well known Polish propaganda.
The Foch line was the provisional line of 1919. Polish affected the Curzon line in 1920, when went to occupy Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
@@arturasandriusaitis8832 The conclusion of this provision as part of the agreement in no way limited the Soviet ability to move only to areas that were previously held by Polish troops. It was a direct action in favor of the Soviets, and if you follow the movement of Lithuanian and Soviet troops, you can see that they operate in parallel. Let me quote once again Trakai, the occupation of which by the Lithuanians (violating the The Foch line) made it difficult for the Polish forces to act, directly supporting the Soviets. Almost the entire territory defined as on the Lithuanian side of the Foch linewas under Lithuanian control in June 1920. The Lithuanians did not intern the Soviet army, which entered their territory, escaping in August and September 1920 (which was required by international law). However, it was in line with the provisions of the July peace agreement, which I wrote about earlier.
The Foch line was practically the same value as the Curzon line and both Lithuanians and Poles crossed it when they saw such needs. This does not change the fact that in 1920 Lithuanian actions directly benefited the Soviets, possibly leading with them limited, but nonetheless, cooperation in the matter of rejecting Poles to the West. These are facts, not propaganda.
1917 Ukraine map is wrong.
Because as "anti-imperalist" as early Soviet Russia claimed to be, it had no problem invading what it perceived as "theirs" like Ukraine and Poland
It was not only Russia that was Soviet, such movements were spread throughout the territory of the Russian Empire. (The same Stalin was a Georgian communist in general, Dzerzhinsky was a Pole, Trotsky was born in Ukraine ). And Ukriana at that time was not a whole, a single state because it was in a state of civil war of the Russian Empire, because it was previously part of it, and therefore the Bolsheviks, who consider themselves the government of Russia, considered it necessary to establish their power on its territories. And they interfered in the affairs of Ukraine, in which the unrest itself took place because of the Ukrainian communists, and the same Nestor Makhno and his "free territory". Please do not apply the current realities to the events of a CENTURY ago. At that time, Ukraine was for the Entente countries, as Abkhazia and South Ossetia are now. Separatist countries that, guarded, kept hostile to them.
And, the concept of "imperialism" and the accession to its composition committed by the Communists are different things.
before WW1 it was actually Russian territory but it was taken after the defeat in the great war
@@FederationMapping It was IMPERIAL TERRITORIES. Communists said that they are anti-imperialists, and as Lenin said: "Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot." Communists and Lenin went through cognitive dissonance.
@@liveforever141 These territories were the territories of RUSSIA ( It's like saying that Scotland is an IMPERIAL territory EXCLUSIVELY of Britain under the rule of a monarchy, and not in principle a Nation) , and they had already been under the control of the "provisional government" for some time, which were democrats, and Tsar Nicholas II at that time had long ago renounced.
@@liveforever141 what most russians seem to forget is how many russiand lenin and his secret police killed to suppress opposition to the bolshevik rule. Basically only those who support were left. Dictators are always the biggest hypocrites
I am surprised that you help Ukraine, Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya suffer what is this racism. We are not human
What,
when it's Afghanistan or iraq being bombed by the US it isn't an ocean of sadness good to clarify that westerners think of them as lesser
I DO NOT GIVE A F*CK about what did USA do in Iraq.
Every single time when someone with a lot of followers writes something in support towards my homeland (Ukraine), you guys start to blabling about “USA does destroy Muslim countries” like if it was Ukraine who “is doing that”!
Question. Is the highlighted map of Ukraine in the beginning of the video correct? Isn't Crimea a gift to Soviet Ukraine in 1954, Novorussia in 1918 and the westmost part in 1945?
Actually Galicia (western Ukraine) had a majority Ukrainian population in 1918, so it wasn't a gift. As for Crimea and Novorussia the question is why were they given to Ukraine in the first place?
On 19 February 1954, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree on the transfer of the Crimean region of the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. This Supreme Soviet Decree states that this transfer was motivated by "the commonality of the economy, the proximity, and close economic and cultural relations between the Crimean region and the Ukrainian SSR".
gift but not for free ... it was compensation for holomodor because stalin killed over 7 m ukrainains back then ... we have way more population than spain / and bigger than france back them ...
@@dragosstanciu9866 the so-called "Novorossia" was created only after the abolishment of the autonomy of the Hetmanate in 1764, the destruction of the Zaporižžian Sič in 1775, and the annexation of the Crimean Khanate's lands in 1783 by the Russian Empire.
before that, it was part of either Ukrainian Cossack entities or the Crimean entities. the territories were sparsely populated. the territories of the Sič were inhabited by Ukrainians, while the territories under Crimean control were populated by Crimeans and Nogais, as well as to a smaller extent Ukrainians, and to an even smaller extent Romanians (Moldovans).
the relations between the Ukrainian Cossacks and the Crimeans during that time were better than their usual depiction as "always hostile" (however they were not easy either). for example, according to the treaty of Bakhchisaray (1681), Zaporižžian Sič territory was nominally independent, and Ukrainians could continue settling and building their fortresses there. Zaporižžian Cossacks had rights to free navigation across the Dnipro river. also, the Oleškivśka Sič, one of the historical Zaporižžian Sičes, existed from 1711 to 1728 on the Crimean Khanate's territory, near the modern-day town of Olešky.
after the Novorossia Governorate was created, the region was settled by different people, but still primarily Ukrainians. for example, in 1851, Ukrainians comprised 70% of the population of the Kherson Governorate, Romanians (Moldovans) 7%, and Russians only 3%. there are different statistics for different governorates (Yekaterinoslav, Taurida, Kherson) existing in that territory in different periods, which you can check by yourself. number of Russians grew with time, but Ukrainians still remained a majority in all of them.
the Ukrainian history in the region is thus much older than Russia tries to show.
@@dragosstanciu9866 lviv didnt any parts also didnt have a ukrainian majority. It was pretty much 50/50 between the poles and the ukrainians. Ukrainians weren't majority in any city, only in villages.
There was still the Western Ukrainian People's Republic
I'm desapointed by your Ukrainian map. Crimea was integreted to Ukraine by Khrouchtchev in 1954. But you're showing the current Ukrainian map as timeless all the video long. It is not reflecting the reality. It might shift dangerously your work from History to Propaganda. Important detail I guess, I enjoyed nevertheless your video.
He added Crimea because of propaganda,I mean he's an westerner
The map is very inaccurate. There was no Ukraine east of the Dnieper
Ukraine had crimea that time. The germany gave it to them. And yeah this map is not accurate because Ukraine had larger territory how a city of belgorod and other
Ukraine had crimea that time. The germany gave it to them. And yeah this map is not accurate because Ukraine had larger territory how a city of belgorod and other
@@endmonster5087 we get it. You don't need to say it twice. We all make mistakes, because we're human.
"This conflict would carry on until 1923"
*December 1922
It's because in world war 1 (at the end of it) ukraine was declared independent during the revolution, same with other nations in russia, the Bolsheviks declared war on other countries along with ukraine, they were declared a soviet Republic
You have omitted the Western Ukrainian Peoples Republic part, the Unification Act of 1919 and how that story ended. Also you did not mention about the Russian White Army part
Charity doesn't work.
For Croatia was even harder than Ukraine.
Ah backstabbing a time honored part of history
The history of Ukraine extremely simplified. Ukraine had its own anarchist movement that had power in large parts of the country from 1918-1922 which was in konflik first against the Austria-Hungary amry, so Polish forces, Ukrainian national movement and at last crushed by the Bolshevik-army.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhnovshchina
yes it's Russian history loosely
Knowledgia: no mention of Makhno?!
Thanks for your support!
Honestly depiction of 1918-1921 is one big false manipulation and understatement, especially about Poland's participation. The map is all wrong. Enough to say that someone really wanted to mute this grey piece of land between so called "republic" and Poland.
Crimea was given by Khruschev in 1956. Crimea has always been part of Russia
Crimea was a part of Ukraine at least 2,000 years, when muscovy didn't exist and muscovians spoke Ugro-Finian.
@@arturasandriusaitis8832 Not true. More than a half of modern day Ukraine is gofte by Russians tsars, politicians and others. Kyiv is also the first capital of Russian state
@@ktsmeb3859 Kyiv was a capital of Rus not russia , in russian , russia is Rossia , while in Russian Rus' is Rus. Crimea was given in 1954* and not 1956
@@gamer228r I know that Khruschev gave Crimea, in 1954 Stalin was alive
@@ktsmeb3859 nobody cares about Stalin, google exists , you making mistakes only discredits ur dubious claims of crimea "AlWaYS beINg RuSsIAn" and perhaps the whole world.
we are waiting for video about events in Volhynia 1943/1944
Facts
How about mentioning about Wisla operation?!
Stop demozining our people!
Stop justify ukrainephobia!
@@kunik61 they supplied terrorists
Wait the video about how Poland kills all Ukrainians that went to carpathian Ukraine but was killed. And the very important part is that it was 5 year before it
Wait the video about how Poland kills all Ukrainians that went to carpathian Ukraine but was killed. And the very important part is that it was 5 year before it
It got its independence. But the Soviets reconquered it.
I agree what you said but did someone ever care about those children who live in the countries that were invaded by the USA?
Facts for real. Russian crimes in Ukraine barely compare to conflicts of Israel, USA, and Saudi Arabia, yet none of them are receiving sanctions.
Go to hell with whataboutism.
No bcs they're not white
Everybody made videos about Ukraine today wow
Next video: Why Croatia didn't get independence after WW1?
It did. As South Slav Country. Wilson liked nationalism - deal with it
@@deutschermichel5807 I mean why Croatia didn't have territory of present day Croatia after WW1, fully recognized and was accepted as Ally?
@@markocroatia7630 what do you talk? Croatia was part of the little entente after WW1 as part of South Slav Kingdom. So it literally was ally
@@deutschermichel5807 Serbs and Italians says differently... they say we lose a war. Even France, UK, Russia and US at Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Why would Zadar, Rijeka and islands be given to Italy if we won?
@@markocroatia7630 because Croatia was allied to Italy and those spots can not belong to two countries both
Can we have a video on why Ukraine has killed 13.000 people in the Donbass since 2014 next?
STOP SPREAD A RUSSIAN FAKE PROPAGANDA.
yup, surely, Ukraine would kill its own citizens for no reason
Assault on injury is this video. While ukraine and russia are fighting to make this video is a slap in the face.
You are lying on this video. First, the Ukranian national republica didn't have the border the current Ukrainian state has. Second it was a state that laster for 3 years and that was only recognized by the russian provisional government. Lenin wanted to probe to the world that the communism was something that went further from borders. That's why the russian provisional government split different countries in the same Russia in order to the creat the Soviet Union. But that the Ukrainian national republic was just a creation of Rússia to generate a soviet or a union of Soviet republics.
What's that grey land between Ukraine, Poland, Hungary and Romania (7:07)
There are Eastern Galicia and the Carpathian Mountains. Poles and Ukrainians lived there. The Treaty of Versailles after the 1WW did not regulate to whom these lands should belong. So there was an armed struggle for these territories.
This is blatant propaganda. Contrary to the map used there, Crimea was not a part of Ukraine at that time.
Though extremely simplified, this serves as a decent summary of the Ukrainian revolution.
Let me add a few small corrections. First of all, it's not Ukrainian National Republic, it's People's (УНР - Українська народна республіка; народ = people, nation = нація). Second, a few pronounciation mistakes: it's PoltAva, not POltava; KhArkiv, not KharkIv; SiCH, not SiKH.
Good stuff👍
i was very curious seeing so many notifications of my favorite history channels pertaining to new videos on ukraine. then I saw that it was part of a bigger project. good initiative. pls expand this to other nations and states that may face or are facing an existentialist threat. like Palestine, taiwan, Kurdistan etc.
Kurdistan is not a country
@@ArabianZar it is an aspiring country, in fact it is the largest nation with no state.
It's Formsa not Taiwan, please don't use the Chinese name of on the Austronesian homeland.
People seem to forget just how cultured nations like Ukraine or even Russia really are nowadays, thanks for stating history for how Russia shaped the Slavs and how they grew to power.
Yeah, people seem to forget because Russia behaves like some barbaric Mongol horde rather a civilised European country
@@foresstovs1134 Russia isn’t all bad you know, is there anything good you can say about Russia? The mongols weren’t all that bad they brought gunpowder to Europe.
@@keimcpartlan7434 mongols conquered, raped, enslaved and committed countless genocides, but at least they brought gun powder so they're not that bad? Do you even hear yourself? And of course, no country is all bad, but Russia in majority is a terrible, dysfunctional shithole. The only good thing I can say about it is that they have some good food, and few old buildings that do not look like they were made out of garbage they found in Berlin
The five problems of enforcing a no fly zone over Ukraine are....
1. It would get NATO and the west involved in a third world War.
2. Just like previous no fly zones enforced over Iraq, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Libya; it would need approval from the UN Security Council.
3. Most of the Russian military aircraft are launching their weapons at Ukrainian targets in Russian and Belarusian airspace and over the Caspian Sea.
4. It would be difficult to issue warnings to any Russian combat aircraft that violates the no fly zone over Ukraine.
5. The Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and armed civilian militias are now beating back the Russian Armed Forces, the Russian National Guard, Wagner Group, the DPR People's Militia, and the LPR People's Militia thanks to western made weapons supplied by NATO and the west.
7:45 aight nice that you didn't mention the fact that the russians made it right up to warsaw and the poles managed to defend and push back further than their interwar borders with barely any (nearly null) outside help.
He also didn't mention the fact that nationalism was fierce in poland and the fact that poland had recently invaded the west ukrainian people's republic in east galicia
@@axlr8deathpls294 русский тролл
watching this video during air raid
Very cool
Russia never changes, from empire to soviet to federation, same playbook, same serfs, same rich . Same oppression and attacking neighbours
Ahhh good thing USA, France, and GB have changed, and stopped attacking neutral small nations.
@@olefante380 lol
@@deutschermichel5807 it's true
The more things change the more they stay the same. Don't look at the speck in others eyes look at the log in yours. It's not Russia that never changes it's humanity.Wake up! Russia's emperor's were Germans just like queen Elizabeth 2. Trotsky was a Jew. Stalin a Georgian. Khrushev and Brezhnev were Ukrainians.
@@tekinet7958 ik
A bit of an innacuracy I noticed... Ukraine did not control Crimea or Kherson, unless this is the extent of their claims, in which they should also receive the Caucasus.
Overall though, a good video.
Crimea yes, but Kherson was part of Tairida okruga of UPR. 3rd Universal specifically referred to it as "mainland part of Taurida governorate"
I don't think rewriting history for Ukraine is why most people follow this channel
Facts
I do not think that the USSR somehow influenced the relationship between Ukraine and Russia. Until 2014 (when Russia occupied Crimea), Ukraine treated Russia very well.
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job.
A amazing collaboration
For somebody with chosen name Knowledgia you show distinctive lack of knowledge about realities of WWI.
About how ukraine [did not] control most of territory it claimed... Or about how Crimea was controlled by white russian army of Vrangel... after they took it from red army during summer of 1919. After red army took it from white army in spring of 1919. After white army got it from german occupation in 1918. After germans took it from red army. Just where UNR fits in this actual history of Crimea, eh?
Do a video about how the US and anti-Russia forces orchestrated a coup in Ukraine back in 2014, and how that led to war, and ultimately the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
Calling a popular revolution a 'coup' because you like the dictator being deposed is never a good look.
@@Debre. dont meddle in our countries EU rat. We defeated the french and germans, we will defeat you.
LOL your a pro Russian separatist, better migrate to Russia
WE ARE NOT AN AMERICAN PROJECT.
@@Debre. this idiot really out here trying to make it sound like they didn't coup a chosen government.
congrats on 1mill
Bravo! It is so impotant to make it known !!!
Deja aveți un milion?! Pfoai mă țineți-o așa!
E un videoclip plin de propaganda
It was a pretty well made video, in short, if you understand. Could you make a video about the independence of Estonia, Latvia from the war or the Baltic states in general?🇪🇪🙃❄
I watched a video about Estonia. It was very perfect
Russia... Russia never changes
Ох уж эта злая раша, которая всегда всех хотела завоевать, и конечно мы будем игнорировать историю, личности, и события, нет. Определённо, русские просто фашисто-нацисты которые хотят всех завоевать и уничтожить. И дети, и старики и женщины. Конечно это всё они
I wish I can, but I can’t 😢
Great info by Knowledgia...But you didn't pay attention to details in mapping Ukraine which shows you attempted to change the part of history that won't favor your agenda
Let's be clear that Ukraine map at that time in 1917 was very small and the current contemporary southern and Eastern Ukraine was part of the Ukraine then
In times like these, I happen to think that Russia is the worst thing that happened to the world.
Usa