Nadene Goldfoot
Russia became part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922. The USSR was established on December 30, 1922, following the Russian Civil War. That happened 103 years ago! Russia became part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922.
Do you remember USSR time in your reading program in grade school? We had it, and it stood for: "Uninterrupted Silent Sustained Reading." My advice: Read to learn more. ....I just learned something !!!!!
Actually, it really stood for The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, which was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. All these states belonged to Russia, a Communist country. Their religion was Secular (de jure) and it was a State atheism (de facto).
On 30 December 1922, along with the Russian, Byelorussian and Transcaucasian republics, the
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, triggering WWII.
On September 17, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland and occupied Galician lands inhabited by Ukrainians, Poles and Jews adding it to the territory of the Ukrainian SSR. The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of Russia.
Germany attacked from the west;
Therefore, Germany's invasion of Poland directly led to the Soviet invasion.
In 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region, lands inhabited by Romanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Bulgarians and Gagauz, adding them to the territory of the Ukrainian SSR and the newly formed Moldavian SSR. In 1945, these lands were permanently annexed, and the Transcarpathia region was added as well, by treaty with the post-war administration of Czechoslovakia.
Ukraine officially declared itself an independent state on August 24, 1991, when the communist Supreme Soviet (parliament) of Ukraine proclaimed that Ukraine would no longer follow the laws of the USSR, and only follow the laws of the Ukrainian SSR, de facto declaring Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union.
The primary difference between the laws of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and an SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic) is that the USSR laws were overarching and applied to the entire Soviet Union, while the laws of an SSR were specific to that individual republic, but still had to adhere to the broader USSR legal framework; essentially, an SSR's laws could not contradict the USSR's laws, and in most cases, the USSR laws took precedence.
The USSR comprised several federal republics with borders defined on the basis of the demographic distribution of a ‘people’, in its Soviet definition. The Lenin-Trotsky Constitution of 1924 enshrined, in formal terms, the union of sovereign nations with equal rights. It granted to the SSRs the right of secession (Article 4) as well as allowing new Socialist Republics to join the Union (preamble). During the 1920s many territorial changes occurred with borders being redrawn and the formation of several ASSRs inside the SSRs. In addition, three new federal republics were created (the SSRs of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, previously part of the RSFSR, then the SSR of Tajikistan, which was separated from Uzbekistan).
Amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine votes for independence in a referendum, with 92 percent of Ukrainians supporting independence, and elects Leonid Kravchuk as president. Ukraine had the second-largest population and economy of the fifteen Soviet republics.
On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.
In late September 1941, SS and German police units and their auxiliaries perpetrated one of the largest massacres of World War II. It took place at a ravine called Babyn Yar (Babi Yar) just outside the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv.
Babi Yar is a ravine outside Kiev, Ukraine where tens of thousands of Jews were killed in September 1941. The horror of the massacre together with the fact that no memorial was erected until the 1980's in memory of the Jewish victims turned Babi Yar into a symbol of anti-Semitism. It was used by the Soviet poet Evgeni Yevtuschen;ko in his poem, "Babi- Yar" in 1962, later incorporated by Shostakovitch into his 13th symphony. It was also the subject of a novel by Anatoly Kuznetzov.
Along with a large part of German-occupied Ukraine, the city was incorporated into the Reichskommissariat Ukraine which had been established on September 1 with Erich Koch as administrator (Reichskommissar).
Before the German invasion, some 160,000 Jews resided in Kyiv. This was approximately 20 percent of the total population of the capital. Following the start of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, approximately 100,000 Jews fled Kyiv or were already serving in the Soviet military. By the time the Germans occupied Kyiv, there were about 60,000 Jews remaining in the city. Most of those who remained had been unable or unwilling to flee earlier. This included mostly women, children, the elderly, and those who were ill.
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After Russia has treated Jews so badly, I find this hard to believe. In 2020, Russia had 155,000 Jews, making it the world's seventh-largest Jewish community. According to available data, Jews make up approximately only 0.1% of Russia's population, representing a very small percentage of the overall population. We Jews make up 2% of the USA population.
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which had started in 2014. The invasion, the largest and deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II, has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties. The threat of Ukraine joining NATO is the excuse Russia is using for a pre-empt attack on Ukraine.
As of 2025, Russian troops occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II.
Putin is now saying that Ukraine started the war. The naivety of Trump shows up by believing Putin's false claim that Ukraine started the war. Read the history to know the truth.
Resource:
Update: 2/23/25 9:30am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kiev-and-babi-yar
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