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The Last Train to Vienna
Rudolph Chelminski
其他書名
The Twisted Tale of How Ukraine Suddenly Became the Central Nerve Point of International Contention
出版Independently Published, 2020-04-29
主題History / General
ISBN17010045509781701004559
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ekuUzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Crossroad of history and marvel of nature, Ukraine should be a land of milk and honey, but it is a shambles. Blame the Russians for that, and the Mongols and Tatars and Poles and Lithuanians and Germans and all the many others who have cast covetous eyes on this prime chunk of real estate lying at the pivot of civilizations. The epic story of how a bizarre noble caste built the biggest state in Europe, dominated it for four centuries then threw it all away through pride and arrogance. A cautionary tale being played out today still as a nation assaulted and exploited for centuries struggles to survive in face of the land-hungry ambitions of the Great Russian Empire, reborn under neo-tsar Vladimir Putin. How this cup of grief captured the world's attention in 2020 and and brought U.S President Donald Trump to impeachment is a strange and tangled story.