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No, We Don’t Care About The Ukrainian Flag in Your Twitter Bio
It’s so complicated, and sometimes you don’t have to pick a side
It’s been two weeks since Russia invaded the Eastern part of Ukraine and destroyed thousands of lives and families, and tensions are running high in the whole world.
People are having opinions about everything nowadays, even when they don’t really have a clue.
To understand this conflict and to form an opinion, you need to start from the beginning and see where this started — from the fall of the Soviet Union to the Russian invasion.
The Fall of the Soviet Union
Officially, the Soviet Union was founded in 1922 after a lot of revolutions in the Russian Empire — Tsar Nicolas II was killed by revolutionaries and not long after, Lenin became the leader of the union.
The communist country suffered under the regime of Lenin and mostly Stalin — it was isolated from the world and nobody really knew what was going on there.
Propaganda was business as usual, and the people that lived there were like aliens when compared to the ‘free world’.
On the 25th of December 1991, the Soviet Union fell apart. Gorbachev resigned that day, and the Republic of…
