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Omicheese — Ukrainian-Russian Relations 2

Published: 2010-06-06 21:00:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 2299; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 12
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Description These comics are based on my term paper for my Europe After 1945 class.

After the Soviet Union broke apart in 1991, Ukraine had a difficult time deciding what to do with all the nuclear weapons that the USSR had stationed on its soil. No one in Ukraine liked nuclear weapons very much, since they had a pretty bad history with nuclear fallout. The USA wanted them to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and get rid of them. Ukraine was quite willing to do this--except that Russia was right next to them, and many people considered that extremely threatening. For a long time, Ukraine dithered over whether to sign the treaty or hold onto the weapons (both as a deterrent against Russia and as a way to keep people from forgetting about them on the global stage), and the USA was growing quite sick of it. Ukraine finally signed the treaty in 1996 and gave the nukes back to Russia.

Axis Powers Hetalia belongs to Himaruya Hidekaz.

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Page-Mistress [2011-02-21 03:51:07 +0000 UTC]

I told a friend of mine about this, and then she said, as America "Goddammit, Russia!"
And now, looking at it again, that so has to be what he's thinking.

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Neo-Byzantium [2010-12-24 00:26:11 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, it's strange that after the Soviet Union collapsed that suddenly, Ukraine was one of the world's major nuclear powers by default and had a nice set of military fangs to bear in case anyone messed with her. It's interesting that many nations would do a great deal to be in Ukraine's position in having nukes along with a good amount of mineral resources and infrastructure to use it yet she didn't want to have them thanks to Chernobyl.

Betcha nations like Iran and North Korea were all like "WTF are you doing Ukraine?! We'd kill to be in your position!".

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