Ukraine

Україна
Capital and largest city	Kyiv
Dominant mode of production	Capitalism
Government	Unitary republic
• President	Volodymyr Zelensky
• Prime Minister	Denys Shmyhal
Area
• Total	603,628 km²
Population
• Estimate	41,487,960

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. Originally part of the Russian Empire, it was split into varying districts over its history. The concept of Ukraine has only come into being since the beginning of the Soviet Union, when the Soviet government decided to unite what had previously been 9 separate districts in the Russian Empire. The region was named after the term "Ukraine" ("borderlands" in Russian). Much of the western part of Ukraine was part of Poland, annexed for the first time into either Russia or Ukraine during World War 2. Crimea was incorporated into Ukraine for the first time in 1954, after having been in the Russian SFSR since the start of the Soviet Union, and having been part of different districts since before even the Tsardom.

Current socialist and communist political parties in Ukraine include the Communist Party of Ukraine, and the Union of Communists of Ukraine.

2014 coup d'état

In 2014 the United States of America helped finance and arm a coup d'état to overthrow the government of Ukraine, because of its allegiance to Russia. As a result there has been a subsequent rise of Nazism in Ukraine, especially in the government of Ukraine, two regions have seceded to form their own governments, and Crimea has voted to rejoin the Russian Federation.