I’m finding myself a little stymied by my ignorance; don’t really know Ukraine’s pre-1917 status. Was it part of czarist Russia? I’ll say this, of the long excerpt I put in above from Churchill , the last line is the most salient for us in 2014. Then we can can have the confidence of the moral authority that did inspire the bloodless revolutions of the early 90’s in the USSR and even put the Chinese students in Tianamen Square with their replicas of the Statue of Liberty.
I would say we “HAD” the moral authority that inspired. but we give guns to drug cartels, overthrow governments and install Muslim theocracies of our choosing, demand the world worship gays and kill our own children by the millions.
We need to sit down and shut up until we regain something resembling morality and justice before we demand it from others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8OEuj6-pVg
Was a part of Russia, at least on the map , for a long time.