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10 sats \ 5 replies \ @kristapsk 17 Apr 2024 \ parent \ on: "Should Congress Stop Funding the War in Ukraine?" Yes! econ
Yes, around 1920. He also served in general stuff of Ukraine before that.
In 1918/1919, they fought for independence, but didn't succeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_State
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic
They also had attempt to create first anarchist country in the world back then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhnovshchina
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Ukraine lost independence during the Russian Civil War between the Reds and the Whites.
Reds defeated Whites who had support from USA and Europe
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Whites who had support from USA and Europe
Also Japan. It was purely economic thing, Russia owed a lot of money to them, so they didn't want bolsheviks to take over, as they would not pay their debts.
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True but the bigger reason was ideology and geopolitics. The west did not want communism to spread
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Yes, that was also reason. For bolsheviks idea was to go to the West and spread revolution. Poles did miracle and stopped them at Warsaw. Fear of bolshevism was the main reason why fascists in Italy, nazis in Germany and falangists in Spain came to power.
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