Like I wrote in my previous post, January is full of commemorative events for Ukraine. Tomorrow should be the day of unity of Ukraine. (Den’ Zluky in Ukrainian) This marks an event in 1919 (22 January), when the Ukrainian People’s Republic in the formerly Russian territories joined with West Ukrainian People’s Republic formed in the former Austrian territories. The Wikipedia page says this union was symbolic because both of these states existed largely on paper. Much like with the cyborgs, this is another celebration of a complete fuck up that better be forgotten.

Ukrainians in Prague have unfurled a huge flag of Ukraine on the Charles’ Bridge.

19 January has seen some dramatic events in 2014.

Now I remember that the Battle of Kruty happened on 16 January 1918. Kruty was something like the Donetsk airport. The government of Hrushevsky was under pressure from the Bolsheviks from the East, so they mustered a force composed of mostly Cadets from a military school in Kiev. Hrushevsky and the rest of the lot fled westwards to the Germans, and the Ukrainian force was annihilated by the Bolsheviks. When the Germans occupied Kiev, Hrushevsky returned to Kiev and created a PR stunt with the burial of the fallen. Shitshow cyborgs!