The Story of Ukraine in the 1990s

The Baltic republics Latvia Lithuania and Estonia that were also a part of the Soviet Union since 1945 is a very different story from the story of Ukraine in the 1990s. These were countries that very much perceived themselves as European that had deep ties through diaspora populations to Western Europe and the United States. The predicament of Ukraine then is how to be autonomous safe secure independent when you are not a part of one of these larger clubs, says Peter Bergen.