Why are there so many Russians in Ukraine?

On the one hand, the distribution of a certain ethnic group has nothing to do with national boundaries. For example, there are Mongolians, Koreans and Russians in China.

On the other hand, there are many Russians in Ukraine today, which has a lot to do with the history of Ukraine.

Around the 10 century, the tribes of the Eastern Slavs merged in today's Ukraine to form the Gullas tribe, and established the Russian State of Kiev. 12-14th century, the political, economic and cultural center of Gullas moved from Kiev to Vladimir in the northeast, and entered the separatist era in Russian history. Gullas tribes gradually split into three branches: Russians (big Russians), Ukrainians (little Russians) and Belarusians. /kloc-in the 3rd century, Kiev Russia was occupied by the Mongolian Golden Horde.

From about14th century, Ukrainians began to leave Gullas and become a single nation with unique language, culture and customs. After Kiev was defeated by Mongols, Ukraine on the left bank (east) of Dnieper River gradually evolved into a no-man's land. /kloc-After the reunification of Russia in the 5th century, the oppressed Russian peasants fled to this region and formed the Cossack of Ukraine.

In the following hundreds of years, Russia in the northeast of China embarked on the road of reunification alone, forming modern Russia; Under the rule of Lithuania and Poland, modern Belarus and modern Ukraine were formed in southwestern Russia. Specifically, the modern Ukrainian nation was formed in the 17 to 19 century, in the middle reaches of the Dnieper River, with Kiev, poltava and chernigov as the center.

/kloc-in the 0 th and 7 th centuries, Ukrainians, under the alliance of Orthodox Church and faith, opposed the Catholic movement in Poland, and then launched an uprising. 1654, Ukrainian cossack leader Bogdan Khmelnitski signed the Treaty of Peleyaslav with the Russian czar, inviting the czar to rule. Since then, East Ukraine (the left bank of Dnieper River) has been formally incorporated into the Russian Empire, and the history of alliance between Ukraine and Russia has begun.

/kloc-During the Great Northern War in the early 20th century, the relationship between eastern Ukraine and Russia was once loose. However, after Peter the Great defeated the invading Swedish army, the centripetal force of eastern Ukraine towards the Russian Empire was greatly enhanced, and more and more people recognized themselves as Russians.

/kloc-At the end of 0/8, Russian Queen Catherine II carved up Poland three times, bringing Russia's native Ukraine and Belarus into the territory of the Russian Empire. At the same time, in 1783, she defeated Ottoman Turkey, annexed the Crimean khanate, a vassal country of Turkey, and a large number of Russians began to immigrate to Crimea.

By 1795, except Galicia (1772- 19 18 belongs to Austria), the rest of Ukraine was under the rule of czarist Russia. However, most of the middle and small aristocrats in western Ukraine are eastern Catholics (although most farmers are Orthodox Christians), so that westerners in Ukraine (and many Catholics in Poland) have a weak sense of identity with Orthodox Christianity and Russia, which led to the seesaw and identity problems between the east and the west (Ukraine) in the 2/Kloc-0 century.

In order to cope with the conflicts and struggles between Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Eastern Europe (with western Ukraine as the center) in the late18th century, after 1795, the Russian czar began to carry out the policy of russianization throughout Ukraine and vigorously promoted the use of Russian.

19 17 The October Revolution broke out, tsarist Russia was overthrown, and then the Soviet regime was established in eastern Ukraine, and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was established. 19 18 to 1920 During the Russian civil war, western Ukraine (East Galicia and West Warren) was occupied by Poland. The Soviet Union was founded in 1922, and eastern Ukraine joined the Union and became one of the founding countries of the Soviet Union. According to the Riga Treaty signed by Poland and the Soviet Union, western Ukraine became Polish territory.

1939165438+1October, World War II broke out, Poland was divided and occupied, and western Ukraine merged with eastern Ukraine (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic).