Passato e presente della crisi ucraina, 1914-2014
Journal: Nuova rivista storica
Year: 2014

For most of the second half of the 20th century, the Soviet Union controlled Eurasia from central Germany to the Pacific, as far south as the Caucasus and the Hindu Kush. When the Soviet Union collapsed, its western frontier moved east nearly 1000 miles, from the West German border to the Russian border with Belarus. Russian Power has now retreated farther east than it has been in centuries. After the Soviet Union dissolved, Ukraine moved into an alignment with the United States and away from Ru