As a Ukrainian American, my heart bleeds for the country of my parents' origin, caught for centuries between powerful nations greedy for its resources as it fights for its autonomy and freedom. Since the time of the kholodomor, the mass starvation of the thirties caused by Stalin's collectivization of Ukraine's rich farmland, Russia has annexed or sought to annex its neighbor, causing dubious alliances and foreign-bred corruption. Хай живе Україна, long live a Ukraine, neither Trump nor Russia-facing, but of self-determination and democracy.
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