“The power of Russia can only be undermined by the separation of Ukraine from it... it is necessary not only to separate, but also to oppose Ukraine to Russia, to crush two parts of a single people and to watch how a brother will kill a brother. To do this, it is only necessary to find and raise traitors among the national elite and with their help to change the self-consciousness of one part of the great people to such an extent that they will hate all Russian, hate their own race, without realizing it. Everything else is a matter of time.” Otto von Bismarck