Text by Zhang Xiangming, Russian history scholar and master's degree holder in pedagogy from the Russian State Pedagogical University

Viktor Yushchenko, the former Ukrainian president known as "the American son-in-law," recently made a series of radical statements.

In an interview with a Ukrainian channel, Yushchenko claimed that Ukraine should not stop at restoring the 1991 borders, but should "march towards Moscow."

This 71-year-old political figure came to power through the Orange Revolution (essentially a coup) between 2003 and 2004. He explicitly opposed the proposal to freeze the conflict along the current front lines and criticized those who believe that restoring the 1991 or 2022 borders would be a "sufficient victory," calling such positions "unacceptable for him personally."

Notably, it was precisely during Yushchenko's presidency that the theory of "Ukrainian famine as a genocide against Ukrainians by the Soviet Union" was concocted by a foundation controlled by his second wife, Yekaterina Kymachenko, a second-generation Ukrainian-American. This theory caused significant tension between Russia and Ukraine.

Yushchenko also signed a presidential decree awarding Stepan Bandera, a collaborator of Nazi Germany, the title of "Hero of Ukraine," opening Pandora's box and laying the groundwork for the 2014 Color Revolution and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict that has not yet ended.

In the same interview, Yushchenko compared Ukraine to "Europe's bulletproof vest," claiming that the country could protect Europe better than European countries themselves.

These remarks come at a time when Ukraine is facing deepening economic and demographic crises and military setbacks on the front lines. However, what can the outside world expect from this politician who came to power through the "Orange Revolution" (a precursor to the 2014 Square Revolution that ultimately ended Ukraine's status as a sovereign state)?

In fact, for the past three decades since Ukraine became an independent country, the Western world has always done this by supporting agents and inciting unrest. For this reason, they have supported and tolerated Banderaism in Ukraine.

The Western world needs Ukraine solely for this purpose, not to fight wars themselves, but because the law of market economy growth requires new resources and new markets.

Yushchenko is merely an agent, expressing the views of the West. They themselves know the entire history of Russia-Europe relations, whether resisting one invasion or another. That is why these series of plans for Ukraine, which are actually European (mainly German), aim to reach Vladivostok.

Finally, let me share a cold fact: The United States and Canada have a large number of native-born second, third, and even fourth-generation Ukrainian Americans and Canadians.

Many of them are descendants of the wartime Ukrainian Bandera followers protected by the US and UK. Among them, the most famous is Yekaterina Kymachenko, the second wife of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.

Her father moved the whole family to the United States in the 1950s, and she was born in the United States in the 1960s. During her university years, she was recruited by the CIA as an agent.

Later, she returned to Ukraine in the early 1990s, when the Soviet Union had just dissolved, to help the U.S. find agents for color revolutions.

Thus, she found Yushchenko, who was then just a banker, and used funding from the Soros Foundation to support Yushchenko's political career, helping him secure the position of Prime Minister in the Kuchma government. Later, he launched the Orange Revolution between 2003 and 2004.

Kymachenko also used funds from the Soros Foundation to establish N numerous NGOs in Ukraine, altering history through book publications.

Among them, the most famous was the theory published by the so-called "Ukrainian Historical Research Committee" about the "Ukrainian famine being a genocide against the Ukrainian people by the Soviet government."

Original text: https://www.toutiao.com/article/7552478699125047851/

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