Ukraine is a constitutive part of the soviet union from its establishment in 19 22 to its disintegration in 19 91. The back and forth of how the ukranian question is treated continues after the second world war, if in a less violent way. When stalan dies, there's a certain loosening on the ucranian question which comes to its apex in the 19 sixties. But when brene takes control, from the late sixties onwards, you have a policy of a very deliberate russification in ukraine. After that, ukraine has to build everything anew it has to build ha state. Has to build an economy. It has