HOW UKRAINE WAS DRAGGED INTO THE SOVIET UNION

Abstract

The collapse of the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century allowed Lenin's Bolshevik Party, which until then had constantly proclaimed slogans about the right of nations to self-determination, to seize power and begin the process of a new revival of Moscow's hegemony over the nations once enslaved by it.  The efforts of the Bolshevik neo-imperialists were directed primarily at the subjugation of the revived Ukrainian state, from where it would be possible to continue to extract all material means and human resources. Since the Ukrainian People's Republic refused to supply its products to the industrial centers of Russia free of charge, the Soviet Russia declared war, which it qualified as the protection of the interests of the working masses. In addition, the Russian Bolsheviks created a puppet UPR in Kharkiv, under the cover of which they carried out their aggression. The so-called worker-peasant government of the Ukrainian SSR became the leading center of the full-scale occupation of Ukrainian lands, and after the suppression of the national liberation movement, it played the role of the final transfer of the forms of Moscow state government to them due to the illegitimate declaration of the USSR.