The meme is a reference to a speech Putin gave on Monday in which he claimed that Ukraine was a creation of the Soviet Union.
where he claimed that Ukraine was a creation of the Soviet Union and part of Russia's historic territory.
Though it's true that Ukraine and Russia have a close history, Putin has offered a distorted, ahistorical representation of their shared past.
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