If we want to understand how such a huge country came to this situation, we have to go back to 1932, in the years of Holodomor (translation: death by starvation); this was the Stalin’s political plan aimed at the requisition of any food reserve in the East Ukraine to exterminate the Ukrainian population, so that the Soviet Union could let the population from Russian countryside settle in this area.

With cruel far-sightedness, Stalin had to intent to obstruct the raising of Ukrainian nationalism, infiltrating Russian people into the society.

Today Ukraine has a very strong minority of Russians; this part of the society is composed by the most convinced voters of Ukrainian Communist Party and Party of Regions.

The political projects of these two parties are strictly characterized by Moscow influence and despite of Nato and Ue.

The official ideals of these parties can be represented by communism and socialism, but it is really hard to find common aspects between these Ukrainian parties the European socialist Party; the politicians of Ukrainian Communist Party and Party of Regions, considering our European parameters, can be considered nostalgic and usually they are financially and politically supported by industrialists of the east regions of Ukraine.

The pool of voters of this reactionary parties is composed by citizens from east regions, Russian ethnic groups, with an age from 40 years old to over 60.

On the other side of the politic conflict, we have pro-Europe and pro-Nato party, most of this organizations claim to be center-right (Our Ukraine, Block of Yulia Timoshenko, People Self-defense). Their pool of voters can be defined as follows: citizens from west regions, catholic and orthodox churchgoers, with an age from 20 years old to 50.

The two different political plans also correspond to different economic backgrounds: the east of Ukraine, with a perceptible presence of heavy industry sector and mines; the west of Ukraine, that is more characterized by the small-medium business, tourism which is no more strictly dependent on Russian citizens that go to Crimea, and, in the end, an intensive trade with the central European countries.

The solution for this conflict?

In the Ukrainian society many ideas or projects for the future have been discussed like splitting up the country to create two different nations or trying to find a compromise aimed to the neutrality of the country between the Nato and Russian blocks.

But the options that is considered the most realistic one, also by the undersigned, is continuing the long and difficult path of creation of a national feeling that is still missing in Ukraine (the independence was reached only in 1991); of course this is a long process that cannot solve any question in the short period, but, in the history, when we analyzed problems of conciliation between two ethnic groups, no one ever found any better solution.

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