Russian President Vladimir Putin needs the former Soviet republic Ukraine for his dream of returning superpower days.
That’s the question on many minds asThe answer involves a mix of history, geography, and Putin’s desire to return his country to the glory days of Soviet Union superpower.A former KGB operative, Putin has said the collapse of the Soviet Union was one of the greatest disasters of modern history. He says he does not regard the former Soviet republic of Ukraine as a real country, nor Ukrainians as separate people.
The Ukrainian people voted overwhelmingly in 1991, in a democratic referendum, to leave the Soviet Union and become independent. Much of the West, probably unwittingly, bought into part of the narrative by referring to Ukraine as “the Ukraine,” the way Putin and Russian nationalists do. It’s similar to how Americans refer to “the South” or “the Midwest,” parts of the U.S., not separate countries.
To understand how Putin views Ukraine, and why it’s so entangled in his national mythology, first look at a map.Belarus, Ukraine and Georgia — in that order, north to south — are former Soviet Union republics that broke away into ostensibly independent nations after the communist power collapsed in 1991. They sit like a massive land barrier between Russia and Europe to the west.Tiny Georgia was invaded by Russia in 2008, and the two fought a brief war.
Thousands of demonstrators march in Odessa, Ukraine, to mark the anniversary of the 2014 Maidan revolution.Belarus, along with several other former Soviet republics, have, or had, Kremlin-friendly leaders. But Ukraine broke from the pattern in a 2014 revolution that seated democratically elected officials and moved the country solidly toward the West.
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