mercoledì 9 marzo 2016
Ucraina, Russia, Europa e una mistificazione accademica della guerra della Nato per il controllo della piattaforma continentale
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve
its territorial integrity and political independence. But today’s
conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine’s
territory and its existence as a sovereign nation. As the award-winning
historian Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine’s past in order to understand its present and future.
Situated
between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine was shaped
by the empires that used it as a strategic gateway between East and
West—from the Roman and Ottoman empires to the Third Reich and the
Soviet Union. For centuries, Ukraine has been a meeting place of various
cultures. The mixing of sedentary and nomadic peoples and Christianity
and Islam on the steppe borderland produced the class of ferocious
warriors known as the Cossacks, for example, while the encounter between
the Catholic and Orthodox churches created a religious tradition that
bridges Western and Eastern Christianity. Ukraine has also been a home
to millions of Jews, serving as the birthplace of Hassidism—and as one
of the killing fields of the Holocaust.
Plokhy examines the
history of Ukraine’s search for its identity through the lives of the
major figures in Ukrainian history: Prince Yaroslav the Wise of Kyiv,
whose daughter Anna became queen of France; the Cossack ruler Ivan
Mazepa, who was immortalized in the poems of Byron and Pushkin; Nikita
Khrushchev and his protégé-turned-nemesis Leonid Brezhnev, who called
Ukraine their home; and the heroes of the Maidan protests of 2013 and
2014, who embody the current struggle over Ukraine’s future.
As
Plokhy explains, today’s crisis is a tragic case of history repeating
itself, as Ukraine once again finds itself in the center of the battle
of global proportions. An authoritative history of this vital country, The Gates of Europe provides a unique insight into the origins of the most dangerous international crisis since the end of the Cold War.
Riccardo Michelucci Avvenire 9 marzo 2016
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