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Civil-military relations in Ukraine today are heavily influenced by the historical inheritance of the Ukrainian armed forces, in particular the fact that they developed from elements of the former Soviet military. The dissolution of the Soviet Union left a sizeable proportion of the Soviet armed forces — over 700000 men — on Ukrainian territory.1 After independence, the new government in Kyiv nationalized these, transforming them into the Ukrainian armed forces. This formal transformation, however, was not enough to immediately effect deep changes in the culture, ideology and traditions of the Ukrainian armed forces. These remained thoroughly Soviet. As a result, the establishment of the post-independence civil-military relationship in Ukraine took place against a background of a strong Soviet and communist legacy.
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Perepelitsa, G. (2002). The Development of Civil-Military Relations in Post-Soviet Ukraine. In: Cottey, A., Edmunds, T., Forster, A. (eds) Democratic Control of the Military in Postcommunist Europe. One Europe or Several?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403905239_13
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