How Ukraine came to exist as a state doesn't nullify its right to exist as a sovereign state independent since 1991.

How Slovakia came to exist as a state doesn't nullify its right to exist as a sovereign state independent since 1993.

How USA came to exist as a state doesn't nullify its right to exist as a sovereign state independent since 1776.

How Israel came to exist as a state doesn't nullify its right to exist as a sovereign state independent since 1948.

Read Robert Service's biography of Lenin if you don't get what "unreconstructed Leninist" means.

I don't supply historians' training wheels for those who can't ride on their own.