If a war began with the invasion of Ukraine launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022 at dawn, the dispute between the two countries does not go back to this date, nor even to the annexation of the Crimea in 2014.
It is a tormented, conflicting history, from the beginnings of the USSR. Thus, in the 1930s, Stalin left the Ukrainian people in the grip of a gigantic famine.
A complex past, an instrumentalized history
During the Second World War, part of the Ukrainians will see with a good eye the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, finding there the occasion to get rid of Soviet tutelage. A complex past, full of bitterness. A story exploited today by Vladimir Putin.
Dive deep into the roots of the war that has just broken out on the European continent, with this document from the magazine “1:15 p.m. on Sunday” (Twitter, #1:15 p.m.)signed Stéphane Dépinoy, François-Julien Piednoir, Vincent Martin and Alexandru Sechilariu.
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