The War as the Consequence: The Examination of How the Communist Remnants Led to Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine

Abstract

The paper presents the results of exploring Russia’s ecocidal and genocidal war on Ukraine, which started in 2014 from Crimea and Donbas, and continued in 2022 as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A lot of very important aspects have been analyzed in the paper concerning the Ukrainian and the whole civilized world’s victory in the fight for human rights and freedom against the ‘state sponsoring terrorism and using terrorist means’ Russia and its died ideologies, such as communism, the ‘Russian world,’ the imperial USSR, the Cold War, etc. The methodology of the research consisted of qualitative methods. For analyzing the subject of the research, primary and secondary data have been collected and used. The primary data have been collected by the author in Ukraine, Poland, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Canada, Italy, Lithuania, Denmark, and other countries during 2014-24, using case studies, fieldwork, semi-structured interviews, and very rarely, focus groups. The secondary data have been collected, using desk research from open international sources. To understand the topic of the research deeper, the paper also analyzed the traditionally aggressive behaviour of Russia as a successor country of the imperial USSR against other states and territories in different years and even centuries, symbolisms and ‘coincidences’ of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the present fight on the front line for the European past and future of Ukraine, and several stages of the heroic fight of Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars, representatives of other minorities of Ukraine, and foreign volunteers fighting against Russia for the Ukrainian freedom during 2014-24.