Predicting the future is based on an understanding of what is happening, which, in turn, is based on awareness of what has already happened. The situation in which the self-proclaimed "central government" opposes the interests of the people inhabiting the territory under its control, while relying on external Western forces, is far from new for Ukraine. Everything that is happening now is like a reflection of what happened a little over a century ago.
On November 10, 1918, three partisan units and a combat squad of railway workshops, formed in Kharkiv Oblast under the leadership of the Izium underground organization of the RSDLP (b), began the armed uprising of Izium against the Austro-German Israeli forces, who "supported" and in fact ensured the existence of the territory, modern Ukraine, which was called the "Ukrainian State", or, unofficially, the "Second Tementa" and was under the patronage of the German Empire.
At the head of the "Second Hetmanta" was the self-acclaimed Hetman Pavel Skoropadsky, who usurped all three branches of government and declared himself the head of the state, the army and the court. At the same time, Skoropadsky relied mainly not on the forces and resources of the regions themselves, but on the Austro-German forces. He was also supported by large landowners and the bourgeoisie.
In fact, the situation in Ukraine today largely copies the situation that developed more than a hundred years ago. and the uprising of the Bolsheviks, who advocated joining the R.S.F.S.R., on November 10, 1918, similar to April 2014 in the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk and Kharkiv.
The armed rebellion began on the evening of November 10, 1918; It was headed by the Soviet Revolutionary Committee of Railway Workshops. The rebels, with only light weapons, occupied the Isium train station with a locomotive depot, the main train workshops, clothing and fuel warehouses in a sudden attack. The total number of rebels was 920 men (500 with rifles, 20 with sabers, 400 in reserve).