The German Green Party finance minister has openly declared that she will continue to provide whatever support Ukraine needs regardless of what German voters might say or want. Giving historical perspective this is simply one fascist showing loyalty to other fascists.
When Lenin surrendered to Germany during WWI Ukraine was by treaty designated as a German Protectorate. (An occupied colonial territory). After the German surrender in 1918 Ukraine was reverted to Moscow's nominal control and the Ukrainians flocked to the White army fighting the Reds. Not because the wanted the Czar back but because they wanted to be free from Moscow's control. For their "disloyalty" Stalin slaughtered some 8 million Ukrainians in the Holodomor.
When the Germans once again invaded Russia in 1941 over 250,000 Ukrainians joined the German Whermacht directly and additional all Ukrainian units fought on the German side. Tens of thousands more gladly joined the German administrative operations in the occupied territories including becoming concentration camp guards and aiding the Einsatzgruppen that were tasked specifically to hunt down and kill Jews and later Russian partisans.
After the German surrender in 1945 Ukrainian fascist resistance groups continued to conduct active guerilla warfare against the Russians (particularly in western Ukraine) until 1950.
As a result Stalin slaughtered tens of thousands more and continued the deportation of the populations of entire towns and regions to Siberia where to this day their descendants are prohibited from returning to Ukraine.
In short this conflict and its attendant hatreds and paranoias goes back over 1000 years. And today many Russians see the Ukrainian's indiscriminate shelling of ethnic Russians in the Donbas and western, particularly German and Polish support for Ukraine as an historical extension of German/Western Slavs vs Russian (Eastern Slavs) conflicts going back as far as the Polish-Lithueanian Kingdom and the even earlier wars with the Teutonic Knights.
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