Russia Has Been Terrorizing Ukraine For Hundreds of Years - Trying To Destroy The Ukrainian People

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia is not an out of the blue event of violence and aggression. Russia has had a violent past towards Ukraine for hundreds of years especially during the time of the USSR.

From 1918-1921 Russian Bolsheviks waged war against the Ukrainian People's Republic and started the USSR occupation of Ukraine.

Since 1929 Russia has practiced forced collectivization which led to 1-2 million people killed or deported to gulags.

In 1921-1923 and 1946-1947 artificial famines claimed the lives of anywhere from 1-5 millions victims.

From 1930 to around 1950 the Great Purge clamed the lives of 200k victims.

From 1932-1933 Holodomor the Genocide of Ukrainians claimed the lives of 4-5 million people. An artificial famine where all food and grain was destroyed or taken.

In 1939-1941 Russia had a forced deportation from Western Ukraine into remote regions of Russia which saw 300k deported and 24k killed.

In 1942-1959 Russia waged war against the Ukrainian Insurgent Army which led to the deaths of 153k Ukrainians and 132k Ukrainians repressed.

In 1944 Russia deported 200k Crimean Tatars from native Crimea.

From 1960-1989 Russia conducted political imprisonment of Ukrainian dissidents. Ukrainian political prisoners comprised at least 65% of USSR's concentration camps which numbered around 1000 people.

The number of Ukrainian victims is not a final number and does not included those persecuted for their religion.

So these aren't the total numbers, and Russian has killed somewhere of almost around 10 million Ukrainians in the 20th century alone.

So who is the aggressor in this equation? Who has the history of violence and brutality in it's DNA going back all the way to Ivan the Terrible?

It's sad that a majority of the world does not know this history. Being born in Ukraine and my family persecuted for our religious beliefs, I know first had the impact.

The statistics come from the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance and the Center for Research of Liberation Movement.

I have heard and read a few people say that "most people in Ukraine speak Russian anyway".

Yes, they do. Here is why.
1720 – Peter I's decree banning printing in the Ukrainian language and the seizure of Ukrainian church books.
1729 – Peter II ordered all government decrees and orders written in Ukrainian to be rewritten in Russian.
1763 – Catherine II banned teaching in Ukrainian at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
1764 – Catherine II ordered the Russifcation of Ukraine.
1769 – The Russian Orthodox Church order the confiscation of Ukrainian primers and church books.
1775 – The destruction of the Zaporozhian Sich and closing of Ukrainian schools at the offices of the Cossack regiment.
1804 – according to a special royal decree in the Russian empire, all Ukrainian-language schools were banned, which led to the complete degradation of the Ukrainian population.
1832 – Reorganization of education in Ukraine transformed all teaching into Russian language
1847 – Increased persecution of the Ukrainian language and culture, the prohibition of the best works of Taras Shevchenko, Panteleimon Kulish, Mykola Kostomarov among others.
1862 – Closing of Ukrainian Sunday schools for adults in the Russian part of Ukraine.
1863 – Valuev Circular – a secret decree that prohibited censors from giving permission to the publication of Ukrainian spiritual and popular educational literature. It referred to Ukrainian as "a separate Little Russian language [that] never existed, does not exist, and shall not exist, and their [Little Russians] tongue used by commoners is nothing but Russian corrupted by the influence of Poland".
1864 – Adoption of a Charter which stated primary school education was to be conducted only in Russian.
1870 – Minister of Education of Russia states that "the ultimate goal of education for all inorodtsy (non-Russians, literally "people of other descent"), is unarguably their Russification
1876 - Alexander II’s decree banning the printing and import from abroad of any Ukrainian literature, and to ban Ukrainian stage performances and Ukrainian lyrics in music scores and folk songs.
1881 – Prohibition of teaching in the public schools and conducting church sermons in Ukrainian.
1884 – The ban by Alexander III of Ukrainian theater in all the provinces of “Little Russia”.
1888 – A decree by Alexander III banned the use of the Ukrainian language in official institutions and of Ukrainian given names.
1892 – Prohibition to translate books from Russian into Ukrainian.
1895 – Prohibition by the Main Administration of Printing to
publish Ukrainian-language children's books.
1914, 1916 – Russification campaign in western Ukraine, the prohibition of the Ukrainian word, education, church.

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