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The economic hardship following the collapse of the Soviet Union hit the Donbas particularly hard due to its non-competitive industries in the global market
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The starkly different views of the Soviet past between eastern and western Ukraine have laid the groundwork for potential conflict, although they did not make it unavoidable
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The Holodomor (1932-1933 famine) is revered in western Ukraine as a genocide against Ukrainians and nationalist guerrillas like Stepan Bandera are celebrated as national heroes
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