The one map you need to understand Ukraine’s crisis

Post by solyanyk » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 10:44 AM UTC

bombarolo wrote: post #27

xiadzpl wrote: post #24

The parts where the heaviest protests take place correlate with the pre-WW II Polish borders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon_Line Being from Poland I wish our politicians tried to use this situation as an opportunity to re-annex western part of Ukraine. Maybe not entire half of it, but f.eg. Lvov used to be a beautiful Polish city before the war.

... and an Austrian city long before that

Post by vdaniuk » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 10:49 AM UTC

Post by randomafrican » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 12:02 PM UTC

Post by mohawk » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 12:58 PM UTC

xiadzpl wrote: post #24

The parts where the heaviest protests take place correlate with the pre-WW II Polish borders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon_Line Being from Poland I wish our politicians tried to use this situation as an opportunity to re-annex western part of Ukraine. Maybe not entire half of it, but f.eg. Lvov used to be a beautiful Polish city before the war.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 1:19 PM UTC

bluekeybox wrote: post #9

saym wrote: post #3

This article helped me understand the conflict in ways I hadn't before. My constructive critique: The analogy of red states and blue states to Ukrainian language and Russian language regions doesn't fit entirely. A state is red or blue with 51% of the vote. these regions have a much larger gap between majority and minority opinion by region.

The dividing line roughly corresponds to the spread of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at its peak in the 1600s: http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/deut/EU1559.jpg In other words, one could argue that the root of the conflict is a cultural clash between Polonized Ukrainians vs Russified Ukrainians.