I have been to Ukraine many times and love the country. One thing that really hit home was how immensely proud of their country Ukrainians are and indeed proud to be Ukrainian. God bless Ukraine.
@@florinadrian5174 I totally agree! Flag of Ukraine is a flag of Lower Austria, the coat of arms they stole from the town Old Ladoga - the first capital of Rus in Leningrad oblast. Ukrainians live on Russian land, in Russian cities, their ideology is Nazi, their history is fake, 30 years of corruption lead to elimination of first rate science, technology, industry, they stole gas, debts, now they sell their soil. But now Russian land is liberated and Mariupol has become really amazing city with beautiful block of flats and schools! ♥
The fact that many or most Ukrainians speak Russian, even those for whom it's a first language, doesn't make them Russian any more than the French speaking Belgians or Swiss, are French, or English speaking Irish people of Eire are English.
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Thanks for posting this video. The way I found your channel was from a recommendation from Anna from Ukraine on her Community page. Anna recommends, I watch. Professor Anna never disappoints in either her content or her recommendations. I, your new subscriber from Texas, USA, look forward to watching many more of your videos. It will take some time because I see you already have lots of content. I have lots of catching up to do, but that was also the case for me when I found Anna's channel. As Anna frequently says, "....the world needs to know more about Ukraine."
The comparison between the Ukrainian and Russian vs Spanish and French was really interesting. As an anglophone, I'll admit I had no idea how different the two languages actually are, and since I have difficulty distinguishing between the two accents I had always assumed they were very similar and more akin to separate dialects than entire separate languages. I guess that just goes to show how how much more there is for me to learn about Ukraine and it's people. I look forward to doing so. Slava Ukraine.
We are glad you found this video interesting. It's not uncommon for people to assume that languages that share similarities in their writing systems or pronunciations are more closely related than they actually are. It's great that you're interested in learning more about Ukraine and its people. Thank you.
Have a look on the Indo-European language family and its Germanic branch. There you are. Maybe for speakers of another language family, English (or later developed American) and German sound similar. Ukrainian and Russian do not sound similar and it is not about accent. They are different languages.
Lexical similarity is a bad measure. I can speak and understand Spanish well but can't really understand French other than a word here and there. I have barely intermediate Russian but can understand about 50 percent of Ukrainian speech and about 75 written. Even when a word is different in standard Ukrainian there is most often a related Russian word. For example peremoga for victory in Ukrainian has the cognate verb peremogit' ...to overcome..in Russian
@@mitchyoung93 the languages are very similar. and lexical similarity is indeed a weak metric. even if words aren't the same if is often the case that the ukrainian word has different but similar meaning in russian, so with little training you can easily deduct the meaning from the context it is used in. heck, even russian and polish are similar enough to somewhat understand one another, but you really need an agile and open mind to do that since the pronounciation is extremely different.
American born of a Western Ukrainian immigrant to the USA, after the second world war. Great job on this video. I was a member of СУМ as a youth and learned these historical facts as stated. My father lived through the Гололомор and fought against the Soviets to free Ukraine. He was a proud, strong Ukrainian man.
Best, most clear pronunciation of "Kyiv" I have yet heard. Been struggling not just with saying it right, but HEARING it right, for months. браво, і з нетерпінням чекаємо на наступну частину.
Since Vikings first sailed downstream on the Dniepro, the area has been invaded by different Empires. Austria, or Poland, are recent ones, but Romans, and Greeks as well as Turks and Persians appear in Ukraine History. The influence of Americans buying a Puppet Government with a mere $22 billion in IMF Cash, seemed to be one more nation that created hardship for the Humans who live in the Ukraine Area. The program this Video presents, appears to overlook the efforts of the US to introduce Bandera Philosophy to the area. The CIA has admitted to introducing former Nazi Soldiers to Ukraine, the BBC did a lovely documentary about some of the nice Hitler Youth style Summer Camps that were created by that effort. It is also fascinating how many Empires have fought over Ukraine since the 1200's..... I am an admirer of the Kyiv Musical group Dakhabrakha. They display many of the cultural influences that perhaps Stalin might not have enjoyed. We do need to face the fact that the conflict in Ukraine is an economic one, not the Russkie Expansionist theory that the Kyiv Government presents. You are correct in saying that the Golden Horde was a major influence.
Kyivan Rus had a lot of cultural influences from both the Scandinavians and Eurasian steppe peoples. Russia in it’s institutions are more reminiscent of the Byzantine empire than the Mongols.
You, like a Polish dog, are a disgrace to us by writing this comment. But there are many idiots in the Polish nation. There's nothing we can do about it .
I,starting to get that Russians are more than correct about their former Soviet Repúblics,in fact,they are a fascist Ruthenian Repúblic. What a waste of oxigen and cells of this SS wanabees.Disgusting ! 🤢🤮
@@svarog8253 sure I'm joking, they love dictatorship just like we all do, and they are definitely not brave, they are fighting against giant enemy because they're cowards, right? ... you are genius 🤣
Complex. I definitely identify w/Ukrainian tenacity to hold on to their history, culture. To the very innermost core of their soul, which identifies w/centuries of cultivation of fertile land. If half of its soldiers died in WW2, to defend against the Nazi threat, I pray this will never happen again. And that in this war against Russia, we. the friends of Ukraine, will actively prevent that. This loss & the loss of millions deprived of their sources of nourishment by Stalin, in the Holodomor, imposed famine, surely motivates & galvanizes Ukrainians not to give up against bitter odds, & to pass over into true freedom & liberation from the yoke of oppression. It is an impressive story with chapters yet to be written. Slava Ukraina.
I grew up in a Connecticut city with a substantial Ukrainian-American presence and I knew some of that community. I never heard a hint that they considered themselves the same as Russians. We had a Ukrainian Orthodox church and a Russian Orthodox church--not interchangeable! Western Ukraine language and customs somewhat resemble those of Poland next door (my heritage), but the Ukrainians use the Cyrillic alphabet, not the Roman, and are mostly Orthodox, not Catholic. On that note, the Ukrainian alphabet has letters not found in the Russian alphabet and verb tenses not used in Russian.
As far as Bandera goes, the crimes of the OUN shouldn't be glossed over. Despite his repeated falling-out with Nazi Germany, the guy was still a war criminal whose followers joined the SS and slaughtered an estimated 50k people for the crime of being Poles. I was glad to hear that Zelenskyy is allowing Polish investigators to excavate bodies in Wołyń/Volyn, where the OUN carried out a massacre of Poles (not to distract from retributory pogroms against Ukrainians by members of the Armija Krajowa) It's only right to have proper reconciliation, especially at this current crossroads in history
Yeah, I think this is one of a couple areas where the piece came off a bit myopic. One-hundred years ago here in eastern Galicia there was a war between Ukrainians and Poles. I realise for brevity's sake not every aspect of a complex history could be addressed, but this was one where it could have either ignored Bandera, or at least make clear his idealogical position.
Yes, it is very important not to try to cover up or even glorify the dark sides of one's own history. Only by openly dealing with one's past can one make the present and future more livable. I mean this particularly as a German, as we still have a lot to work through in this regard.
I hope Poles will condemn war criminal Pilsudski who was responsible for killing thousands of Ukrainians, genocidal politic of polonization of Ukrainians and so much more crimes.
@@ggg-cf9zl I'm not sure that what you're suggesting is commonly supported by historians, as far as I know. Pilsudski didn't take command of the Polish forces until the summer of 1919, and I'm aware of no war crimes by either side during the war. There certainly were crimes conducted by paramilitaries, but not either of the uniformed armies. What's more, Ukrainian and Polish forces later united against the Bolsheviks under Pilsudski's command. Typically when people use the term "war crimes", they're not aware that there are specific rules about them, and those that we use today (ones Russia violates daily) were laid out decades after the 1918-19 war.
сердечно дякую! Excellent episode, the story and history of courageous Ukrainian people needs to be widely known. Thank you so very much for creating this important series “Ukraine’s True History.” 💙💛 Слава Україні! Героям Славa!
AND don’t forget the Lend-Lease program of millions of tons of tanks, bomber and fighter aircraft, food and other weapons without which Stalin would have not have survived.
Thank you for this great video! Victory, Freedom, Full Reparations, and all of Ukraine's Land for Ukraine, this includes Donbas and Crimea! 💙💛 Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava!
Re Myth 7, let's not forget the Ribbentrop-Molotov and that USSR was full on best buddies with Nazis Germany, until hitler decided he didn't like them. Russia only fought nazis because it got attacked.
I am so glad that you started this channel with history of Ukraine....this was so necessary! Most importantly it is in English which can be shared and spread world wide !
The cultural aprobation of Kievan Rus into their own history by Russia is very striking. Once you take that away it's hard to think what else Russia has apart from a succession of despotic tsars and centuries of serfdom. Even the great flowering of culture in the nineteenth century was not inherently Russian, but European in origin. In fact even Marxism that led to the disasterous social experiment that followed was European. Are we surprised at Putin's paranoia when faced with the reality of what his great motherland really is - or rather isn't?
I wrote my dissertation on the Troubles in the north of Ireland and it’s really interesting to see how similar Ukrainian and Irish people were portrayed by their colonizers.
Very sharp production, folks, and engrossing for those of us familiar with the history. I do think you weakened the piece by making it seem like Ukraine's history was always one pitted against Russians and not others. I comment elsewhere about Bandera, so I'll bring up this point. The Holodomor, as I understand it, involved the starvation of millions from Ukraine across Russia into Kazakhstan. It was, I believe, primarily a result of the failings of a planned economy during the communist regime of Stalin (who himself was no Muscovite). It was an attack on a whole class of people across a "classless" society, the majority of whom were Ukrainians. With that, I applaud your tackling the communist question at the end. We seem to be moving far enough away from the 20th century where many people fail to recognise how absolutely awful communism is/was, and how its effects play out in the economic geography of Europe to this day.
Thank you for the feedback! It's not easy to make a short explanation of complex processes- and still this video turned out to be almost twice longer than it was supposed to be. There will be separate videos about some of these topics, including national movements and Bandera.
Loved the video!!!! More please!! As far as the Holodomor is concerned, it was specifically targeted at Ukrainians. Stalin starved various countries in and around the Soviet Union, and for different reasons. The decades-long competition between Mao’s China and Stalin’s Russia often resulted in some of these famines. Perhaps these other famines are what you are referring to, because the Holodomor was specifically targeted against Ukrainians and Cossacks. I say this as an Iranian-American who majored in European History - and whose people were starved and killed in the millions by the Russians during World Wars I and II. Just don’t want to downplay Russian crimes, at any point in history. As a world, we’ve all done that for too long.
Brilliant. Thanks for your accessible, open and honest way of addressing the key narratives that have been flowing from the Moscow regime my whole life. It gives me the elevator talk that I needed to counter the propaganda. Folks, let's keep up the pressure on our own governments to back up their kind words and promises with action. And I look forward to the transformation of the largest country in Europe into a leader. So much to be done, folks, so ket's keep our eyes on the goal: Victory for Ukraine.
the US appears to have created the mess that Ukraine now experiences. The CIA efforts to promote Bandera supporters since 1950, appear to be just one more Empire poking it's nose into Ukraine history. The area is very ripe with History being written by the victorious in conflicts. Ukraine is not experiencing any actual benefit from the US encouraging corruption in the area. The ability to overlook the savage images of the Trade Union Building Fire seem to be one feature of the West invading the area once again. There will be no victory for dead folks.....
Yes that is my thoughts of UKRAINE also, I was nevee in UKRAINE, but I follow there History and I cannot believe that such selfish person wants something from another one that are so well , the Ukraine's are so lovingly people and, God Blesthem
Ukraine is now forced to FIGHT AND IS WORKING HARD to fix a historical injustice to its linguistic and cultural heritage and at the same time fight the sovieticus mentality of corruption left over by the Russian controlled USSR and if that was not enough, it is also being forced to defend the land from Moskali Russian evil underhand war/attack and annexation of the lands of the Ukrainian nations.. In Ukraine, they don’t have bilingualism - it’s diglossia,”. (Diglossia is a term that describes when two or more languages are used under different conditions within a community, often by the same speakers.) One language is termed “high,” and the second “low” referring to their status or prestige in society. in Kyiv, the Russian Sovieticus idea of Russian being the “high,” still shows among the older generation is still to some part considered to be prestigious but this is getting slowly rubbed out… In Ukraine, Russian language and its status are both consequences of the genocide done to the people of Ukraine and an imperialistic of the Soviet Union in Ukraine . Due to its post-colonial status, the Ukrainian language was pushed to the margins of all areas of life. In Tsarist Russia, the Ukrainian language suffered from numerous prohibitions. For instance, in 1863 Valuyev Circular, a decree suspending the publication of many religious and educational texts in Ukrainian, or as the Russians called it, Little Russian, denied its existence. The younger Ukrainian generation is now taking back their culture and finding their way back to Ukraine's own roots and they are staring to be proud of their own true history (without Kremlins propaganda and myths ) and are now asserting their national identity and own language as it is their god-given the right to do so . According to polls by the Razumkov Center, in 2017 some 68 percent of Ukrainians said Ukrainian was their native language. Only 14 percent consider Russian to be their native language, while 17 percent said they were native speakers of both Ukrainian and Russian. Russian propaganda likes to misrepresent Ukraine as a country sharply divided geographically, ethnically and politically along linguistic lines for Kremlins agenda and propaganda needs: there are ethnic Russians in the east and south and in Ukraine’s Crimea who speak Russian, and ethnic Ukrainians in the west who speak Ukrainian, the story goes. But at same time Kremlin propaganda will pump out the Russian propaganda MYTH that Ukrainians and Russians are at the same time “one people,” (meaning Ukrainians are Russians as there is acceding to the Kremlin no such thing as Ukrainians ) the Kremlin’s incoherent and false narrative continues. It is a narrative that is sometimes picked up and lazily repeated by Western media. The real situation is much more complicated than the Kremlin’s propaganda, of course. Many people in the east speak Ukrainian as their native language (mainly in rural areas), and many people in the west speak Russian as their native language (mainly in urban areas). Some speak a blend of the two languages, called “surzhyk” combining elements of the vocabulary and grammar of the two languages in a variety of mixes, depending on the locality. Surzhyk is most prevalent in east-central Ukraine but can be heard in all parts of the country, especially in areas adjacent to big Russian-speaking cities. This complex linguistic landscape has been shaped, mainly, by centuries of Russian imperialism - first under the Russian Tsardom and Empire, and later under the Russian dominated Soviet Union. The Russian government has in the history and are still today underhandedly and covertly promoting the spread of the Russian language and Russian dominance over Ukraine. Russia even promotes this idea of a justifiable and rightful dominance over Ukraine not just to its own Russians and the world in general but among the native Ukrainian population as well... They do this by actively refusing to acknowledge the historical facts and the existence of the Ukrainian language and take every opportunity to belittle Ukrainian history by calling it a myth; this way Moscow is indirectly saying that Ukrainian history never existed and Ukrainian people are just nothing more than confused little Russians.. If we look back in time this is nothing new, the Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Pyotr Valuev in 1863 issued a secret decree that banned the publication of religious texts and educational texts written in the Ukrainian language Emperor Alexander II expanded this ban by issuing the Ems Ukaz in 1876 (which lapsed in 1905). The Ukaz banned all Ukrainian language books and song lyrics, as well as the importation of such works. Furthermore, Ukrainian-language public performances, plays, and lectures were forbidden During the Soviet times, the attitude to Ukrainian language and culture went through periods of suppression (during the period of Stalinism) While officially there was no state language in the Soviet Union until 1989, Russian in practice had an implicitly privileged position as the only language widely spoken across the country From around the 1960s nearly all dissertations were required to be written in Russian That caused most scientific works to be written exclusively in Russian. Studying Russian in all schools was not optional, but the requirement. SO DO NOT COME SCREENING about Russian language rights in UKRAINE Mr Putin after Russia has forcefully been running a linguistic genocide on the Ukrainian language for years. Language is the soul of a nation and this is why Russians are pushing Russian in Ukraine to destroy the soul of the Ukrainian nation ... The Russian language is a sign of a "low-born" person a sovieticus dimwit that directly or indirectly is by using Russian in Ukraine supporting the linguistic genocide The Kremlin has been running a linguistic genocide on the Ukrainian language for years.. Russian should not be taught in Ukrainian kindergartens and schools "not to spoil child's speech." and the future sole of the Ukrainian nation and that is what Russian is really trying to do by attacking the Ukrainian language .. "Russian" really should be called 'Muscoviyan " was created in 17 century, and many Russians 'Muscovians "speakers don't understand this fact ! Under Peter the Greats Russia , (let's call it what it really is Muscovy ) and during the the reign of Peter the Great lots of words were borrowed not only from German, but also from Dutch, heavily. So, 11 century Ukrainian (found as a graffiti on Sophia of Kyiv) example: Maty ne khotjachy ditychja bizhja gеt In modern Ukrainian, it is Maty ne khotjachy dytyny bizhytj hеtj (pronounced the same as written) In modern Russian, it is Matj nje khotja (no "chy") rjebjonka bjezhyt prochj (written) Matj nji khatja (no "chy") rjibjonka bjizhyt prochj (pronounced)
I would be so happy if we were isolated from Russia as much as Switzerland or even Sweden is! But, unfortunately, Ukraine has to defend itself like centuries ago because Russia keeps following it's imperial ambitions
IMHO the video fails at one point that isn't stressed often enough. History does not make countries, people make history. I fully support all the points that were mentioned here, but the fact is that Ukraine is a MODERN DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY. And as such it has the working mechanics in place to choose to do whatever they wish as long as they respect the democratic will of the people and the rights of the minorities. So if tomorrow they collectively decide they want to, regardless history, call themselves New Segovia and start speaking Spanish, so be it. No neighbour has any part in that decision. The instant that anyone gives HISTORY, be it fake or true, the power to rule one should start speaking Latin as one has descended into human history thousands of years. The battle between Ruzzia and Ukraine is not one of Russia vs Ukraine, it is one of a MODERN DEMOCRACY vs an OUTDATED TOTALITARIAN EMPIRE.
The ban of opposition Parties might exclude Kyiv as a Democracy? I feel that like former President Carter of the US, that that government is not any actual Democracy. I have participated in Electoral events since 1972, and the appearance of democracy may have been sold in 1948, so apparently I missed a lot of the effects of democracy influencing decisions? Modern Democracy is an institution that benefits the profits of a small group of wealthy Investors, and selling their decisions to the populations..... You do need to temper your propaganda a bit?
@@danielhutchinson6604 I did not say that Ukraine was a perfect democracy, every country is placed somewhere in a gradient with probably NK at the absolute bottom and some nordic country at the very top of both civil freedom and political freedom. Even banning parties is acceptable, and has been done in many countries over time, if those parties advocate for the dissolution of the democratic system (i.e. communist parties) or even terrorist objectives (i.e. muslim extremism). Ukraine has been advancing a lot since Maidan and it certainly shines in that geographical area, especially if you compare them against the ruZZians who are always walking in the opposite direction sinking in the gradient faster and faster. As for your rant against capitalism, it is really out of place, and seems mostly centered in the US and perhaps UK, please know that those two systems are probably the most democratically flawed while still clinging to the democracy gradient, and they are definitely not the lighthouse to search for goals. Finally, you definitely have not addressed the main point, that history is not the goal, and crazy greedy neighbours should stay out...
@@TheAlchaemist I am far from the ranting stage..... I am simply entering into discussions about topics that do interest my personal history. I do have Norske ancestors as well as Polish and some Irish heritage, so please do not expect rational or even common sense answers from me? I do enjoy a response that can take the conversation beyond simple propaganda levels that have been present for centuries. I do enjoy an exchange of opinions. But I do have to take a Tractor Tire to town and the Pickup is not responding. Perhaps we can continue later?
@@danielhutchinson6604 If there is something that YT has taught me is that it is impossible to have any lengthy exchange outside of perhaps 3 or 4 replies at most. At that point the thing will simply not tell you that there was an answer to your last message. To add some value to the comment, my point is broad and simple, far from propaganda. History should not be a guide to develop a modern working country. The base for a modern country is a democratic system, with proper representation, respect to human rights and the rights for minorities with as much freedom as possible without incurring in harming the rights of people nor the social tissue. In that context Ukraine represents yet another Eastern European country desperately trying to get out of the harmful Ruzzian Empire, meaning going in the right direction, climbing that gradient. Meanwhile, Ruzzia is exactly the opposite, a country whose population desperately wants the lost glory of the empire to come back, ready to subjugate neighbours as pleased, in a genocidal and propagandistic way (you should see Russia 1 channel to sense what the people consume), while in the process they loose every single freedom they briefly gained in the 90s. They are back into a new Stalin era. All of that is summarized into my phrase at the original comment "MODERN DEMOCRACY vs "OUTDATED TOTALITARIAN EMPIRE"
@@TheAlchaemist Modern Democracy appears to be an illusion that is not based on facts but has its roots in modern advertising methods. I have had some extended discussions that appeared to be uncut by censors. I assume that Zelenskyy banning opposition Parties was one authoritarian move. The fact that Victoria Nuland seems to select the Candidates is one more feature that appears to present Kyiv as a Puppet Colony. The distribution of funds from IMF "Loans" is another reason that appears to demonstrate that Money Talks..... I do appreciate any response that makes it past censors.....
Very interesting history of Ukraine 👍 speaking on the Tartars in the video. I don't know much but it sounds like besides the Ukraine people being repressed and taken advantage of by Russia and others over the years, the Tartars also appears to be abused too. What do you think, would it be possible to make Crimea a neutral country? Maybe someone smarter than me can explain if that is possible. Great video 👍
I don't think it would be possible because Russia sees Crimea as a "historically Russian land" but most importantly, it turned the penninsula into a strategic military base
Вообще-то первоначальное самоназвание украинцев - русины, русские. Украинцы не всегда были украинцами. И сейчас есть русины в Закарпатье. И никакой " Киевской Руси" не существовало. Государство называлось Русь и русская земля.
It's funny how this pro-Ukrainian video contradicts even Western history books. 1. Russia is the heir to Russia, as are Ukraine and Belarus. Only in Ukraine they shout that Ukraine is true Russia. 2. We are not one people, no one in Russia talks like that. For some reason, I only hear this statement in Western media and only Western media refute it. Yesterday, at a press conference, Putin openly stated to the whole world that Ukrainians are related and fraternal people, but we are different and respect differences. 3. Of course, Crimea, like any territory, passed from country to country. At different times, its population changed. Here, as a resident of Crimea, I will say that Russians have been living here since imperial times, and Ukrainians have only begun to come here since 1954. Even the UPR did not claim Crimea in 1918. Then my grandparents talked about how in 1954 and the following years, the USSR suppressed any Russian dissent. What you show is 54% of the votes are in favor of Ukraine's independence. And the subsequent referendum on Crimea's independence in 1992, 1996 and 1998 was suppressed by repression. In 1998, my father was tortured by the Ukrainian special services simply because he did not know Ukrainian. 4. Nobody in Russia denies the Holodomor; they deny that it was directed against Ukraine. Russia and Kazakhstan also suffered from the Holodomor. Moreover, Kazakhstan has lost more population than Ukraine. But are poor Ukrainians anyway? If you think with your head and simply read the economic program of the USSR of that time, you will immediately understand why the famine began. By the way, at 4:28am, you show a map of the UPR in 1922, which was drawn by Ukrainian members of the SS divisions based on the claims of the UPR itself in 1918 and the idea of the superiority of Ukrainians over Poles, Belarusians, Russians and Tatars. If you knew history or at least knew how to read it and discovered Wikipedia, for example, you would learn 2 things. The first is that the UPR has never owned these territories, and at the Paris Conference, Western countries directly stated that they do not support the UPR's claims, as these are the territories of the Russian Republic and Poland. Second, the fact that the UPR did not exist in 1922, the UPR existed from 1918 to 1920. And in 1921, under the Riga Treaty, the former territory of the UPR was divided between the Ukrainian SSR and Poland. In 1924, the USSR would become part of the USSR together with the RSFSR (Soviet Russia). 5. There was no communism in the USSR. The dictatorship of the proletariat in the USSR is already in itself contrary to the idea of communism. It is ridiculous to watch you say that communism is bad when Social Democrats are former Mensheviks. The difference between a Bolshevik and a Menshevik is that the Bolshevik goes to communism through revolution, and the Menshevik through reforms. The Mensheviks, by the way, fought on the side of whites in the civil war. 6. Again, as a former Ukrainian citizen, this is true. preview.redd.it/ukraine-does-not-have-a-nazi-problem-v0-5zk3l9io6fva1.jpg?auto=webp&s=9459b8b0970df78d4be48f3a288f912416197223 pbs.twimg.com/media/FMhOw5BaUAQ8ixu.png 7. Russia has complaints only against Ukraine. We are not interested in what kind of government and regime you have. The West's conflict is that the West imposes its ideology on us, and this is not democracy, but “tolerance” towards minorities. 8. Ukraine is really divided. Just look at Ukrainian bloggers. Only nationalists from the West are shouting about unity. I watched the blog of a refugee from eastern Ukraine. She was against Russia, but when she came to western Ukraine, she was simply denied housing and services because she is from eastern Ukraine and she is not Ukrainian enough. 9. Isn't it? During WWI, Germany openly announced the creation of a vassal kingdom of Ukraine. After the outbreak of the Civil War in Russia, France and England signed an agreement on the division of Russia. Ukraine was supposed to become a dependent country on France. uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%BE-%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE_%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%96%D0%BB_%D1%81%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%B2%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B2%D1%83 10. Again, only the West talks about this and refutes it itself. In Russia, monuments to Ukrainians have stood and are still standing. St. Petersburg, for example, has a monument to Mannheim, who fought against the USSR.
hahaha actualy ukrainians,are pronbably more related with bulgarians ,by blood, alfabet and clergy(after Basil the Bulgarslayer,most of bulgarian priests and bulgarian books(first slavic literature),run in Kiev i Volodimir Sozdal,where they are translated into russian and spread among ukrainians and russians
Soviet era not was about political ideology, but about totalitarian imperialism. Chechen wars and other Russian barbarism all about this Russian people very barbaric, western ukrainians always was civil nation and pro freedom
3:15 "however Crimea had zero ties to Russia" Thats like saying, Ukraine today had historically no ties to Crimea, Donbass etc. If Russia had no ties to Crimea but Tatars are still Rus today how does Ukraine have ties to Crimea?
@@RZakelis gifting a friend his land does not make it historically yours. It could have been part of Ukraine but you can't force ethnic Russians to cheer for Bandera, to stop speaking Russian to stop living their culture. Ukraine made a mistake and forever lost Crimea. Now Ukraine should re-think if they want to do the same mistake with Lwiw and other historically not Ukrainian cities. Don't think Poles will accept Bandera forever. They just wait for their chance. Hungary will do the same. If Ukraine would have accepted the diversity and stayed neutral, there would be no war. Now it has lost its sovereignty, they will never be able to pay off the debt. Blackrock owns it.
@@RZakelis Tatars are Russians and still live in Crimea as well as in Tatarstan. They can practice their culture and religion in Russia just as Chechens, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Avars etc. Something Ukraine needs to learn.
@web30web Tatars are Russians?Sorry, but it doesn't make any sense. Hundreds of thousands of Tatars were relocated from Crimea and now they are minority there. Russians can't practice their religion in Ukraine? But both nations are orthodox :) I'm hearing that Russians complain about learning Ukraine language, it is weird to my ears. When we all were part of Soviet Union, we had learn Russian, it was mandatory doesn't matter Ukrainians, Estonians or Kazakhs, we all could speak Russian. And now Russians somehow complain that they have to learn local languages where they live?
Some valid points on history, for sure, but some not. Saying Crimean Tartars are the rightful heirs if Crimea, then saying it belongs to Ukraine shoots one’s argument in the foot. If you are using the “let’s peel back years of history to see who the ‘good’ guys are” you will always be disappointed. For that matter, you might as well suggest reviving the Ostrogoths (ancient Germans), Greeks, Venetians, and Turks as rightful heirs. Turkey lost Crimea in a war that ended in the 1700s, and it has been ethnically Russian since, else a) the population of Crimea was largely Russian with a large portion of Jewish Russians (which explains why are there no Ukrainian WWII cemeteries there) 2) the referendum to return to Russia was overwhelming, 3) if the Crimea, Donetsk, and Lugansk are so pro Kiev, why are they being forced versus volunteering to give up their mother tongue? I could go on, but no need. To say that the Soviet Union mistreated Ukrainians would be an understatement, but that awful system did that to everyone, primarily Russians. So Stalin who was not Russian, like Hitler, who was not German, and Napoleon who was not French, exploited their power over subservient populations, with predictable results. As far as ancient history if the back and forth between Muscovy and the Kievan Rus, I think it is more complicated than this post suggests. The spread of Orthodoxy, the common faith of both countries, at least in name, is a major historical unifier. One point I totally disagree with is the take on the Maidan coup and the west. You’d have to be a moron not to see the hand of the CIA, the MIC, the Nulands, the Pyatts, the Kirbys, the Sullivans, the Bidens and their crooked, woke co-travelers as instrumental in all of this. They do this all the time, as did their precursors from Viet Nam and the Cold War, through all their little adventures since. No one, but no one advocates for peace here.
Instead of calling people morons, it would substantiate your claims if you'd provide credible sources. Personally, encountering the word 'moron' amidst an argument startles me in such a way that I tend to forget pushing the record button on my hippocampus.
"Most of the deaths from starvation in Europe were in the Soviet Union and Poland, countries invaded by Germany and occupied in whole or part during the war. A central focus of Germany's war policy was overcoming chronic food deficits by conquering Poland and the fertile chernozem, or "black earth," region of Ukraine and neighboring republics of the Soviet Union, and expelling, starving, or killing the native populations. German farmers were to be resettled on the vacated lands, thus assuring Germany self-sufficiency in food and enabling Germany to take a secure place alongside the United Kingdom and the United States as a world power. "
Yeah, there were quite a few unvalid points/"facts" in this video, for sure. Unfortunally, that seems to be the case with a lot of videos, made by Americans (who have had their own fair share of propaganda) So getting a neutral view on history, can be pretty difficult..
Crimea got it’s independence before the Ukraine… 😂 they even had a president and a constitution from their 1991 referendum. Ukraine invaded in 1995, deposed the president and abolished their constitution. It was still called the Autonomous Republic of Crimea until 2014.
The "successor to the Kyiven Rus" is a nonsensical title. In reality it was just dynastic infighting by the Rurikovids and Polish expansion which determined the centers of eastern european power after the Mongol invasions. The Rus as previously known simply ceased to exist.
This is a great video coming from total ignorance except recently learning (a lot) about the Einsatzgruppen and Babyn War (&c.) I doubt it is unbiased being from a channel called for the biggest city - but it comes welcome to have such a barrage of history so well presented in such a short time.
So, Crimea was Russian between 1783 and 1954 and as Ukraine was still part of the Russian-controlled USSR in 1954, that end date could even be 1991? Did I understand that correctly?
08:20 "Ukraine suffered some of the heaviest losses in WW2" This is if you assume that everybody who lived in today's Ukraine was ethnic Ukrainian which is totally wrong. Because as we also remember parts of West-Ukraine was Poland/Hungary. Already forgot that part?
Ok, so if Ukrainians define themselves as Zap-Cossacks how does Ukraine as we know it today is also not Polish, Hungarian or Rus? It would be interesting to know the % of ethnic Zap-Cossacks. So far I understand, Ukrainians wants to keep the land which they historically didn't own and where other ethnic groups are majority.
@@web30web ur life is false. Cossacks are not an etnicity, Zap sich is a military organization. U literally know nothing about Ukraine, so better just stfu
Absolute lies. Kossacs did NOT have land. Belarussian Russian and ukrianian people is same people! Russians NEVER destroyed ukrianian culture. Unlike the ukriane does. Crimea is RUSSIA, it never ever had to do anything to do with the ukriane. Crimea voted 97% in favor of Russia. Golodomor was across ALL COUNTRIES!!! Not just the ukriane.
@@oleglilu5003Referendum 1991 was approved by the west because they wanted the fall of USSR. Referendum 2014 was ignored, 2022 was criticized. Why can't Ukraine/West allow DPR/LPR to be independent? If they know the struggle of being independent they should understand But every time UA talks about the war, they talk about getting territory back, they don't want ethnic Russians to be part of UA. They started ethnic cleansing a while ago.
Sometimes a country? I thought for the first time since 1991? War of ineldepedence? Yes for east Ukraine. But Ukraine has lost its independence long time ago. Don't think the west is spending billions for free. UA is sold out. The west want the land back (because they invested too much) , Russia won't give it back and UA people are dying.
While I side with Ukraine and condemn the Russian attack, you're criticism of Marxism and socialism is merely your opinion. You can critique the Soviet regime with facts without resorting to sweeping generalizations and opinions.
07:45 "Ukrainians president is a jew" 1. Does Zelensky practice Jewish religion? 2. George Soros is also a jew, he does not practice it and he worked with Nazis which he does not even feel bad about it (his words in BBC interview). Soros also said, Ukraine was his most successful project.
This is a false illustration everything is turned around. Look up Captain the Great and Peter the Great not saying that these two people were any better than any. Colonial empires
Tatars are Asians. From Turkish than Slavic. Not natives of Crimea. They entered the region during Kazharia Khaganate. Around the 8th century, I believe. Crimea was Gothic before that. So it should technically go to Germany 😅😂😂.
1:30 odnoszenie się do Rusi Rosji jak i Ukrainy jest mocno naciagane choc to w Rosji przetrwala gałąź rodu Rurykowiczow ktora stworzyła i zachowala państwowość. Dajej widze propaganda sie zaostrza. Pozdro
Yes, Ukrainian people the majority of the people there voted to become part of Ukraine after the USSR collapsed. Virtually every poll taken there indicates pro-Ukrainian sentiment was stronger than pro-Russian sentiment. Only after Russia took it in 2014 did the polls show stronger pro-Russian sentiment, likely because they rig it like they rig their elections.
While this was good, there were several topics that are actually much simpler to understand. First, the Holodomor is best explained by the USSR stealing all crops and food from peasants, whor refused to have their farms collectivized, because Ukraine was the only nation at the time, in which farmers owned their own property, as opposed to being peasants working on someone else's land, or tenant farmers. This famine only occurred win the countryside, but not in cities. It's difficult to blame a harvest, when cities have food, but farms do not, and those cities are sealed off to not allow anyone to enter to get food. Next, Ukrainians are nazis is my favorite. Yes, some Ukrainians were more then thrilled at the prospect of Germany attacking the USSR, but that was because Ukraine wanted to be free of the USSR, because they were mostly farmers who owned their own land and didn't want to turn it over to the State, as indicated above, not because they liked the NAZIs. After the Holodmor, Ukraine was so weakened that the only hope was that if another nation attacked the USSR, Moscow would need to move troops from Ukraine to protect Moscow, which might have allowed Ukraine to force Soviet troops out of Ukraine. Germany was the only nation that openly threatened the USSR, to the point that the Kremlin signed a non-agression pact with the NAZIs, and only fought the NAZIs after Germany ignored that pact and attacked anyway. Up until German attacked, the Kremlin was more than happy to appease the NAZIs. While there were some people in Ukraine who fought on the side of the NAZIS, almost all of them were fighting against them by the end of the war, when it became better known what they were doing. Bandera was an example of this, who was even in a NAZI concentration camp by the end of the war. While there were NAZIs in Ukraine in recent years, most of them relocated to Moscow, on or around February 2022. Ilya Kiva is a wonderful example of this.
The true origin of “Rus” The Vikings developed an existing city which is nowadays Kiev in the 9th century. They were called “Kiev Rus”. This city was prosperous for centuries and was destroyed by the Mongols. It took several centuries to rebuild and flourish as before. Moskovia (Moscow) developed 5 centuries later, in the 14th century - it was NOT called Russia. Catherine the Great decided to call Moskovia “Russia” at the end of the 18th century. They stole all original historic documents from Kiev, changed them and from then on, Moskovia became Russia. So Russia stole its name from Ukraine. So Ukraine is the real Russia. Nowadays “Russia” is Moskovia. ua-cam.com/video/B6b7WQy1Y3Q/v-deo.html
I have been to Ukraine many times and love the country. One thing that really hit home was how immensely proud of their country Ukrainians are and indeed proud to be Ukrainian. God bless Ukraine.
I'm jealous I want to go mainly to see the museum of corruption
They have every right to be proud. While other countries' glory lies in the past, Ukraine is amazing the world now.
@@florinadrian5174 I totally agree! Flag of Ukraine is a flag of Lower Austria, the coat of arms they stole from the town Old Ladoga - the first capital of Rus in Leningrad oblast. Ukrainians live on Russian land, in Russian cities, their ideology is Nazi, their history is fake, 30 years of corruption lead to elimination of first rate science, technology, industry, they stole gas, debts, now they sell their soil. But now Russian land is liberated and Mariupol has become really amazing city with beautiful block of flats and schools! ♥
@@Kerys23a How is it that you don't know that the museum of corruption, theft, kidnapping, and genocide is in Moscow? Its address is the Kremlin.
@@sviat9729 what
The fact that many or most Ukrainians speak Russian, even those for whom it's a first language, doesn't make them Russian any more than the French speaking Belgians or Swiss, are French, or English speaking Irish people of Eire are English.
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Thank you consice, to the point and honest. Keep up the great work. Slava Ukraine 💛💙🇺🇦
Awesome video!
I believe some of the myths (if not all) could be expanded into whole separate videos!
@@DusanPavlicek78 that’s the plan! Please, subscribe and don’t forget to put notifications for the next episode. Thank you for your feedback
Found it in a link on Mastodon, glad you're on there! Sharing w/ friends.
Thanks for posting this video. The way I found your channel was from a recommendation from Anna from Ukraine on her Community page. Anna recommends, I watch. Professor Anna never disappoints in either her content or her recommendations. I, your new subscriber from Texas, USA, look forward to watching many more of your videos. It will take some time because I see you already have lots of content. I have lots of catching up to do, but that was also the case for me when I found Anna's channel. As Anna frequently says, "....the world needs to know more about Ukraine."
The comparison between the Ukrainian and Russian vs Spanish and French was really interesting. As an anglophone, I'll admit I had no idea how different the two languages actually are, and since I have difficulty distinguishing between the two accents I had always assumed they were very similar and more akin to separate dialects than entire separate languages. I guess that just goes to show how how much more there is for me to learn about Ukraine and it's people. I look forward to doing so.
Slava Ukraine.
We are glad you found this video interesting. It's not uncommon for people to assume that languages that share similarities in their writing systems or pronunciations are more closely related than they actually are. It's great that you're interested in learning more about Ukraine and its people. Thank you.
Have a look on the Indo-European language family and its Germanic branch. There you are. Maybe for speakers of another language family, English (or later developed American) and German sound similar. Ukrainian and Russian do not sound similar and it is not about accent. They are different languages.
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Lexical similarity is a bad measure. I can speak and understand Spanish well but can't really understand French other than a word here and there. I have barely intermediate Russian but can understand about 50 percent of Ukrainian speech and about 75 written. Even when a word is different in standard Ukrainian there is most often a related Russian word. For example peremoga for victory in Ukrainian has the cognate verb peremogit' ...to overcome..in Russian
@@mitchyoung93 the languages are very similar. and lexical similarity is indeed a weak metric. even if words aren't the same if is often the case that the ukrainian word has different but similar meaning in russian, so with little training you can easily deduct the meaning from the context it is used in. heck, even russian and polish are similar enough to somewhat understand one another, but you really need an agile and open mind to do that since the pronounciation is extremely different.
American born of a Western Ukrainian immigrant to the USA, after the second world war.
Great job on this video.
I was a member of СУМ as a youth and learned these historical facts as stated.
My father lived through the Гололомор and fought against the Soviets to free Ukraine. He was a proud, strong Ukrainian man.
so you are proud to be a descendant of a nazi? Hope your ancestors burn in hell with Bandera
Best, most clear pronunciation of "Kyiv" I have yet heard. Been struggling not just with saying it right, but HEARING it right, for months. браво, і з нетерпінням чекаємо на наступну частину.
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It's fascinating just how much of an impact the Mongol invasions had on Europe, which lasts even to this day.
Since Vikings first sailed downstream on the Dniepro, the area has been invaded by different Empires.
Austria, or Poland, are recent ones, but Romans, and Greeks as well as Turks and Persians appear in Ukraine History.
The influence of Americans buying a Puppet Government with a mere $22 billion in IMF Cash, seemed to be one more nation that created hardship for the Humans who live in the Ukraine Area.
The program this Video presents, appears to overlook the efforts of the US to introduce Bandera Philosophy to the area.
The CIA has admitted to introducing former Nazi Soldiers to Ukraine, the BBC did a lovely documentary about some of the nice Hitler Youth style Summer Camps that were created by that effort.
It is also fascinating how many Empires have fought over Ukraine since the 1200's.....
I am an admirer of the Kyiv Musical group Dakhabrakha.
They display many of the cultural influences that perhaps Stalin might not have enjoyed.
We do need to face the fact that the conflict in Ukraine is an economic one, not the Russkie Expansionist theory that the Kyiv Government presents.
You are correct in saying that the Golden Horde was a major influence.
Kyivan Rus had a lot of cultural influences from both the Scandinavians and Eurasian steppe peoples. Russia in it’s institutions are more reminiscent of the Byzantine empire than the Mongols.
You, like a Polish dog, are a disgrace to us by writing this comment. But there are many idiots in the Polish nation. There's nothing we can do about it .
I,starting to get that Russians are more than correct about their former Soviet Repúblics,in fact,they are a fascist Ruthenian Repúblic.
What a waste of oxigen and cells of this SS wanabees.Disgusting ! 🤢🤮
If such invasions existed, there would be evidence of it today, for instance, there is about 0% of Mongolian gene among Ukrainians today.
We love you Ukraine.... your actions are proof of a brave freedom loving nation 🇪🇺♥️🇺🇦
Ukraina is NAZI🇺🇦😈👎👎👎
So much lies in a short vídeo,it doesnt matter.God not blind,they can go for Naziland,but for Donbass or Crimea,its very complex to go ! 🤕🕳️🔥😎🇷🇺
| brave freedom loving nation| Lol nice joke
@@svarog8253 sure I'm joking, they love dictatorship just like we all do, and they are definitely not brave, they are fighting against giant enemy because they're cowards, right? ... you are genius 🤣
@@MrKlipstarmoscovia is the Naziland
Complex. I definitely identify w/Ukrainian tenacity to hold on to their history, culture. To the very innermost core of their soul, which identifies w/centuries of cultivation of fertile land. If half of its soldiers died in WW2, to defend against the Nazi threat, I pray this will never happen again. And that in this war against Russia, we. the friends of Ukraine, will actively prevent that. This loss & the loss of millions deprived of their sources of nourishment by Stalin, in the Holodomor, imposed famine, surely motivates & galvanizes Ukrainians not to give up against bitter odds, & to pass over into true freedom & liberation from the yoke of oppression. It is an impressive story with chapters yet to be written. Slava Ukraina.
Your thoughts and sentiments are deeply valued. Thank you for watching.
I grew up in a Connecticut city with a substantial Ukrainian-American presence and I knew some of that community. I never heard a hint that they considered themselves the same as Russians. We had a Ukrainian Orthodox church and a Russian Orthodox church--not interchangeable! Western Ukraine language and customs somewhat resemble those of Poland next door (my heritage), but the Ukrainians use the Cyrillic alphabet, not the Roman, and are mostly Orthodox, not Catholic. On that note, the Ukrainian alphabet has letters not found in the Russian alphabet and verb tenses not used in Russian.
As far as Bandera goes, the crimes of the OUN shouldn't be glossed over. Despite his repeated falling-out with Nazi Germany, the guy was still a war criminal whose followers joined the SS and slaughtered an estimated 50k people for the crime of being Poles.
I was glad to hear that Zelenskyy is allowing Polish investigators to excavate bodies in Wołyń/Volyn, where the OUN carried out a massacre of Poles (not to distract from retributory pogroms against Ukrainians by members of the Armija Krajowa) It's only right to have proper reconciliation, especially at this current crossroads in history
Yeah, I think this is one of a couple areas where the piece came off a bit myopic. One-hundred years ago here in eastern Galicia there was a war between Ukrainians and Poles. I realise for brevity's sake not every aspect of a complex history could be addressed, but this was one where it could have either ignored Bandera, or at least make clear his idealogical position.
Thank you both for your comments on this. We appreciate the valuable feedback as we continue to refine this series.
Yes, it is very important not to try to cover up or even glorify the dark sides of one's own history. Only by openly dealing with one's past can one make the present and future more livable.
I mean this particularly as a German, as we still have a lot to work through in this regard.
I hope Poles will condemn war criminal Pilsudski who was responsible for killing thousands of Ukrainians, genocidal politic of polonization of Ukrainians and so much more crimes.
@@ggg-cf9zl I'm not sure that what you're suggesting is commonly supported by historians, as far as I know. Pilsudski didn't take command of the Polish forces until the summer of 1919, and I'm aware of no war crimes by either side during the war. There certainly were crimes conducted by paramilitaries, but not either of the uniformed armies. What's more, Ukrainian and Polish forces later united against the Bolsheviks under Pilsudski's command. Typically when people use the term "war crimes", they're not aware that there are specific rules about them, and those that we use today (ones Russia violates daily) were laid out decades after the 1918-19 war.
GLORY to Ukraine 🌻
I am going to like any comment that says that.
Thank Anna for directing me here. 🌻
Who is Anna, what channel?
сердечно дякую! Excellent episode, the story and history of courageous Ukrainian people needs to be widely known. Thank you so very much for creating this important series “Ukraine’s True History.” 💙💛 Слава Україні! Героям Славa!
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This is an excellent video and I learned quite a lot!!
thank you!
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AND don’t forget the Lend-Lease program of millions of tons of tanks, bomber and fighter aircraft, food and other weapons without which Stalin would have not have survived.
Looking forward to more videos like this!
Thank you for this great video!
Victory, Freedom, Full Reparations, and all of Ukraine's Land for Ukraine, this includes Donbas and Crimea! 💙💛
Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava!
Brilliant 👏 thank you Slava Ukraine 💛💙🇺🇦
I'm very pleased to have seen this video. Russia must get out of Ukraine, they don't belong there.
The Ukrainian people holding light sabers is so cool 😁👍.
Awesome and clear! Thank you for your work KI!
thank you for watching!
Щіро дякую за цей чудовий епізод🫶🏻💛💙‼️ Слава Україні🇺🇦‼️
Thanks for your work. We have to spread the truth about ukraine 🇺🇦
Thank you!
No wonder Ukraine people are so strong and determined. They have hd to fighter their existence for a very long time.
Thank you very much! 100% hidden trues.
Very interesting! thank you😃
Re Myth 7, let's not forget the Ribbentrop-Molotov and that USSR was full on best buddies with Nazis Germany, until hitler decided he didn't like them. Russia only fought nazis because it got attacked.
Great video, very well made.
Will forward to all my friends..
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Thank you!
I am so glad that you started this channel with history of Ukraine....this was so necessary! Most importantly it is in English which can be shared and spread world wide !
thank you!
Shared.
Very good video about Ukraine. You've suffered so much. It is time for you. Victory and Peace!
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Very informative, thank you!
Interesting video, thank you.
Thanks for this informative video
Oh this is so Excellent!! Very well done! I’ll be sharing this with people who have mentioned these lies to me! Thank You! Дякую!! 💙🙏🏽💛🥰🇺🇦🌻💪🏽☮️
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The cultural aprobation of Kievan Rus into their own history by Russia is very striking. Once you take that away it's hard to think what else Russia has apart from a succession of despotic tsars and centuries of serfdom. Even the great flowering of culture in the nineteenth century was not inherently Russian, but European in origin. In fact even Marxism that led to the disasterous social experiment that followed was European. Are we surprised at Putin's paranoia when faced with the reality of what his great motherland really is - or rather isn't?
I wrote my dissertation on the Troubles in the north of Ireland and it’s really interesting to see how similar Ukrainian and Irish people were portrayed by their colonizers.
I was thinking about this unfortunate similarity too
Very sharp production, folks, and engrossing for those of us familiar with the history. I do think you weakened the piece by making it seem like Ukraine's history was always one pitted against Russians and not others. I comment elsewhere about Bandera, so I'll bring up this point. The Holodomor, as I understand it, involved the starvation of millions from Ukraine across Russia into Kazakhstan. It was, I believe, primarily a result of the failings of a planned economy during the communist regime of Stalin (who himself was no Muscovite). It was an attack on a whole class of people across a "classless" society, the majority of whom were Ukrainians.
With that, I applaud your tackling the communist question at the end. We seem to be moving far enough away from the 20th century where many people fail to recognise how absolutely awful communism is/was, and how its effects play out in the economic geography of Europe to this day.
Thank you for the feedback! It's not easy to make a short explanation of complex processes- and still this video turned out to be almost twice longer than it was supposed to be. There will be separate videos about some of these topics, including national movements and Bandera.
Holodomor was genocide of Ukrainian people. I see what you're trying to do by manipulating. Shame on you!
@@imatviyishyn ~The length was perfect...look forward to seeing what else you do
Loved the video!!!! More please!!
As far as the Holodomor is concerned, it was specifically targeted at Ukrainians. Stalin starved various countries in and around the Soviet Union, and for different reasons. The decades-long competition between Mao’s China and Stalin’s Russia often resulted in some of these famines. Perhaps these other famines are what you are referring to, because the Holodomor was specifically targeted against Ukrainians and Cossacks.
I say this as an Iranian-American who majored in European History - and whose people were starved and killed in the millions by the Russians during World Wars I and II. Just don’t want to downplay Russian crimes, at any point in history. As a world, we’ve all done that for too long.
@@MaryamofShomal thank you for your feedback
Let's keep broadcasting this type of content. Enough oppression from ruzia over Ukraine.
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Excellent information
Brilliant. Thanks for your accessible, open and honest way of addressing the key narratives that have been flowing from the Moscow regime my whole life. It gives me the elevator talk that I needed to counter the propaganda. Folks, let's keep up the pressure on our own governments to back up their kind words and promises with action. And I look forward to the transformation of the largest country in Europe into a leader. So much to be done, folks, so ket's keep our eyes on the goal: Victory for Ukraine.
the US appears to have created the mess that Ukraine now experiences.
The CIA efforts to promote Bandera supporters since 1950, appear to be just one more Empire poking it's nose into Ukraine history.
The area is very ripe with History being written by the victorious in conflicts.
Ukraine is not experiencing any actual benefit from the US encouraging corruption in the area.
The ability to overlook the savage images of the Trade Union Building Fire seem to be one feature of the West invading the area once again.
There will be no victory for dead folks.....
Why the f does my government not recognise the holodomor
Very informative. Thanks
bad information! Propaganda!
Thanks
07:02 "Bandera is controversial figure" that's it? Just controversial? How does Poles feel about it?
Yes that is my thoughts of UKRAINE also, I was nevee in UKRAINE, but I follow there History and I cannot believe that such selfish person wants something from another one that are so well , the Ukraine's are so lovingly people and, God Blesthem
Slava ukraini 🇺🇦❤️🇬🇧
SLAVA UKRAINI 🇺🇦🇺🇦
Ukraine is now forced to FIGHT AND IS WORKING HARD to fix a historical injustice to its linguistic and cultural heritage and at the same time fight the sovieticus mentality of corruption left over by the Russian controlled USSR and if that was not enough, it is also being forced to defend the land from Moskali Russian evil underhand war/attack and annexation of the lands of the Ukrainian nations..
In Ukraine, they don’t have bilingualism - it’s diglossia,”.
(Diglossia is a term that describes when two or more languages are used under different conditions within a community, often by the same speakers.)
One language is termed “high,” and the second “low” referring to their status or prestige in society. in Kyiv, the Russian Sovieticus idea of Russian being the “high,” still shows among the older generation is still to some part considered to be prestigious but this is getting slowly rubbed out…
In Ukraine, Russian language and its status are both consequences of the genocide done to the people of Ukraine and an imperialistic of the Soviet Union in Ukraine . Due to its post-colonial status, the Ukrainian language was pushed to the margins of all areas of life.
In Tsarist Russia, the Ukrainian language suffered from numerous prohibitions. For instance, in 1863 Valuyev Circular, a decree suspending the publication of many religious and educational texts in Ukrainian, or as the Russians called it, Little Russian, denied its existence.
The younger Ukrainian generation is now taking back their culture and finding their way back to Ukraine's own roots and they are staring to be proud of their own true history (without Kremlins propaganda and myths ) and are now asserting their national identity and own language as it is their god-given the right to do so .
According to polls by the Razumkov Center, in 2017 some 68 percent of Ukrainians said Ukrainian was their native language. Only 14 percent consider Russian to be their native language, while 17 percent said they were native speakers of both Ukrainian and Russian.
Russian propaganda likes to misrepresent Ukraine as a country sharply divided geographically, ethnically and politically along linguistic lines for Kremlins agenda and propaganda needs: there are ethnic Russians in the east and south and in Ukraine’s Crimea who speak Russian, and ethnic Ukrainians in the west who speak Ukrainian, the story goes. But at same time Kremlin propaganda will pump out the Russian propaganda MYTH that Ukrainians and Russians are at the same time “one people,” (meaning Ukrainians are Russians as there is acceding to the Kremlin no such thing as Ukrainians ) the Kremlin’s incoherent and false narrative continues. It is a narrative that is sometimes picked up and lazily repeated by Western media.
The real situation is much more complicated than the Kremlin’s propaganda, of course. Many people in the east speak Ukrainian as their native language (mainly in rural areas), and many people in the west speak Russian as their native language (mainly in urban areas).
Some speak a blend of the two languages, called “surzhyk” combining elements of the vocabulary and grammar of the two languages in a variety of mixes, depending on the locality.
Surzhyk is most prevalent in east-central Ukraine but can be heard in all parts of the country, especially in areas adjacent to big Russian-speaking cities.
This complex linguistic landscape has been shaped, mainly, by centuries of Russian imperialism - first under the Russian Tsardom and Empire, and later under the Russian dominated Soviet Union.
The Russian government has in the history and are still today underhandedly and covertly promoting the spread of the Russian language and Russian dominance over Ukraine.
Russia even promotes this idea of a justifiable and rightful dominance over Ukraine not just to its own Russians and the world in general but among the native Ukrainian population as well...
They do this by actively refusing to acknowledge the historical facts and the existence of the Ukrainian language and take every opportunity to belittle Ukrainian history by calling it a myth; this way Moscow is indirectly saying that Ukrainian history never existed and Ukrainian people are just nothing more than confused little Russians..
If we look back in time this is nothing new, the Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Pyotr Valuev in 1863 issued a secret decree that banned the publication of religious texts and educational texts written in the Ukrainian language Emperor Alexander II expanded this ban by issuing the Ems Ukaz in 1876 (which lapsed in 1905). The Ukaz banned all Ukrainian language books and song lyrics, as well as the importation of such works. Furthermore, Ukrainian-language public performances, plays, and lectures were forbidden
During the Soviet times, the attitude to Ukrainian language and culture went through periods of suppression (during the period of Stalinism) While officially there was no state language in the Soviet Union until 1989, Russian in practice had an implicitly privileged position as the only language widely spoken across the country From around the 1960s nearly all dissertations were required to be written in Russian That caused most scientific works to be written exclusively in Russian. Studying Russian in all schools was not optional, but the requirement.
SO DO NOT COME SCREENING about Russian language rights in UKRAINE Mr Putin after Russia has forcefully been running a linguistic genocide on the Ukrainian language for years.
Language is the soul of a nation and this is why Russians are pushing Russian in Ukraine to destroy the soul of the Ukrainian nation ... The Russian language is a sign of a "low-born" person a sovieticus dimwit that directly or indirectly is by using Russian in Ukraine supporting the linguistic genocide The Kremlin has been running a linguistic genocide on the Ukrainian language for years.. Russian should not be taught in Ukrainian kindergartens and schools "not to spoil child's speech." and the future sole of the Ukrainian nation and that is what Russian is really trying to do by attacking the Ukrainian language ..
"Russian" really should be called 'Muscoviyan " was created in 17 century, and many Russians 'Muscovians "speakers don't understand this fact ! Under Peter the Greats Russia , (let's call it what it really is Muscovy ) and during the the reign of Peter the Great lots of words were borrowed not only from German, but also from Dutch, heavily.
So, 11 century Ukrainian (found as a graffiti on Sophia of Kyiv) example:
Maty ne khotjachy ditychja bizhja gеt
In modern Ukrainian, it is
Maty ne khotjachy dytyny bizhytj hеtj (pronounced the same as written)
In modern Russian, it is
Matj nje khotja (no "chy") rjebjonka bjezhyt prochj (written)
Matj nji khatja (no "chy") rjibjonka bjizhyt prochj (pronounced)
Now I can understand better, because I had in my mind that Ukranians and Russians were the same.
We're happy we helped you to debunk this myth :)
Ukraine should have followed the examples of Switzerland or Sweden - neutrality. What do you think about that idea?
I would be so happy if we were isolated from Russia as much as Switzerland or even Sweden is! But, unfortunately, Ukraine has to defend itself like centuries ago because Russia keeps following it's imperial ambitions
What do you think about stopping to support serial mass murders?
IMHO the video fails at one point that isn't stressed often enough. History does not make countries, people make history. I fully support all the points that were mentioned here, but the fact is that Ukraine is a MODERN DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY. And as such it has the working mechanics in place to choose to do whatever they wish as long as they respect the democratic will of the people and the rights of the minorities. So if tomorrow they collectively decide they want to, regardless history, call themselves New Segovia and start speaking Spanish, so be it. No neighbour has any part in that decision. The instant that anyone gives HISTORY, be it fake or true, the power to rule one should start speaking Latin as one has descended into human history thousands of years. The battle between Ruzzia and Ukraine is not one of Russia vs Ukraine, it is one of a MODERN DEMOCRACY vs an OUTDATED TOTALITARIAN EMPIRE.
The ban of opposition Parties might exclude Kyiv as a Democracy?
I feel that like former President Carter of the US, that that government is not any actual Democracy.
I have participated in Electoral events since 1972, and the appearance of democracy may have been sold in 1948, so apparently I missed a lot of the effects of democracy influencing decisions?
Modern Democracy is an institution that benefits the profits of a small group of wealthy Investors, and selling their decisions to the populations.....
You do need to temper your propaganda a bit?
@@danielhutchinson6604 I did not say that Ukraine was a perfect democracy, every country is placed somewhere in a gradient with probably NK at the absolute bottom and some nordic country at the very top of both civil freedom and political freedom. Even banning parties is acceptable, and has been done in many countries over time, if those parties advocate for the dissolution of the democratic system (i.e. communist parties) or even terrorist objectives (i.e. muslim extremism). Ukraine has been advancing a lot since Maidan and it certainly shines in that geographical area, especially if you compare them against the ruZZians who are always walking in the opposite direction sinking in the gradient faster and faster. As for your rant against capitalism, it is really out of place, and seems mostly centered in the US and perhaps UK, please know that those two systems are probably the most democratically flawed while still clinging to the democracy gradient, and they are definitely not the lighthouse to search for goals. Finally, you definitely have not addressed the main point, that history is not the goal, and crazy greedy neighbours should stay out...
@@TheAlchaemist I am far from the ranting stage.....
I am simply entering into discussions about topics that do interest my personal history.
I do have Norske ancestors as well as Polish and some Irish heritage, so please do not expect rational or even common sense answers from me?
I do enjoy a response that can take the conversation beyond simple propaganda levels that have been present for centuries.
I do enjoy an exchange of opinions.
But I do have to take a Tractor Tire to town and the Pickup is not responding.
Perhaps we can continue later?
@@danielhutchinson6604 If there is something that YT has taught me is that it is impossible to have any lengthy exchange outside of perhaps 3 or 4 replies at most. At that point the thing will simply not tell you that there was an answer to your last message. To add some value to the comment, my point is broad and simple, far from propaganda. History should not be a guide to develop a modern working country. The base for a modern country is a democratic system, with proper representation, respect to human rights and the rights for minorities with as much freedom as possible without incurring in harming the rights of people nor the social tissue. In that context Ukraine represents yet another Eastern European country desperately trying to get out of the harmful Ruzzian Empire, meaning going in the right direction, climbing that gradient. Meanwhile, Ruzzia is exactly the opposite, a country whose population desperately wants the lost glory of the empire to come back, ready to subjugate neighbours as pleased, in a genocidal and propagandistic way (you should see Russia 1 channel to sense what the people consume), while in the process they loose every single freedom they briefly gained in the 90s. They are back into a new Stalin era. All of that is summarized into my phrase at the original comment "MODERN DEMOCRACY vs "OUTDATED TOTALITARIAN EMPIRE"
@@TheAlchaemist Modern Democracy appears to be an illusion that is not based on facts but has its roots in modern advertising methods.
I have had some extended discussions that appeared to be uncut by censors.
I assume that Zelenskyy banning opposition Parties was one authoritarian move.
The fact that Victoria Nuland seems to select the Candidates is one more feature that appears to present Kyiv as a Puppet Colony.
The distribution of funds from IMF "Loans" is another reason that appears to demonstrate that Money Talks.....
I do appreciate any response that makes it past censors.....
Magnifique travail !
Excellent video, thank you
Krutchev was Ukranian,thats why,but Russian SSR had protested. alot,include the people.Many cities in East Ukraine been founded by thr Rissians,too.
What do you want to say by this?
Very interesting history of Ukraine 👍 speaking on the Tartars in the video. I don't know much but it sounds like besides the Ukraine people being repressed and taken advantage of by Russia and others over the years, the Tartars also appears to be abused too. What do you think, would it be possible to make Crimea a neutral country? Maybe someone smarter than me can explain if that is possible. Great video 👍
I don't think it would be possible because Russia sees Crimea as a "historically Russian land" but most importantly, it turned the penninsula into a strategic military base
IIRC Crimea was already an Autonomous Region with special privileges and delegation of powers.
Вообще-то первоначальное самоназвание украинцев - русины, русские. Украинцы не всегда были украинцами. И сейчас есть русины в Закарпатье. И никакой " Киевской Руси" не существовало. Государство называлось Русь и русская земля.
Well done 👍
Слава Україні
Чудово, дякую!
Slava Ukraini from 🇬🇧 and 🇫🇷
It's funny how this pro-Ukrainian video contradicts even Western history books.
1. Russia is the heir to Russia, as are Ukraine and Belarus. Only in Ukraine they shout that Ukraine is true Russia.
2. We are not one people, no one in Russia talks like that. For some reason, I only hear this statement in Western media and only Western media refute it. Yesterday, at a press conference, Putin openly stated to the whole world that Ukrainians are related and fraternal people, but we are different and respect differences.
3. Of course, Crimea, like any territory, passed from country to country. At different times, its population changed. Here, as a resident of Crimea, I will say that Russians have been living here since imperial times, and Ukrainians have only begun to come here since 1954. Even the UPR did not claim Crimea in 1918. Then my grandparents talked about how in 1954 and the following years, the USSR suppressed any Russian dissent. What you show is 54% of the votes are in favor of Ukraine's independence. And the subsequent referendum on Crimea's independence in 1992, 1996 and 1998 was suppressed by repression. In 1998, my father was tortured by the Ukrainian special services simply because he did not know Ukrainian.
4. Nobody in Russia denies the Holodomor; they deny that it was directed against Ukraine. Russia and Kazakhstan also suffered from the Holodomor. Moreover, Kazakhstan has lost more population than Ukraine. But are poor Ukrainians anyway? If you think with your head and simply read the economic program of the USSR of that time, you will immediately understand why the famine began.
By the way, at 4:28am, you show a map of the UPR in 1922, which was drawn by Ukrainian members of the SS divisions based on the claims of the UPR itself in 1918 and the idea of the superiority of Ukrainians over Poles, Belarusians, Russians and Tatars. If you knew history or at least knew how to read it and discovered Wikipedia, for example, you would learn 2 things. The first is that the UPR has never owned these territories, and at the Paris Conference, Western countries directly stated that they do not support the UPR's claims, as these are the territories of the Russian Republic and Poland. Second, the fact that the UPR did not exist in 1922, the UPR existed from 1918 to 1920. And in 1921, under the Riga Treaty, the former territory of the UPR was divided between the Ukrainian SSR and Poland. In 1924, the USSR would become part of the USSR together with the RSFSR (Soviet Russia).
5. There was no communism in the USSR. The dictatorship of the proletariat in the USSR is already in itself contrary to the idea of communism.
It is ridiculous to watch you say that communism is bad when Social Democrats are former Mensheviks. The difference between a Bolshevik and a Menshevik is that the Bolshevik goes to communism through revolution, and the Menshevik through reforms. The Mensheviks, by the way, fought on the side of whites in the civil war.
6. Again, as a former Ukrainian citizen, this is true.
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7. Russia has complaints only against Ukraine. We are not interested in what kind of government and regime you have. The West's conflict is that the West imposes its ideology on us, and this is not democracy, but “tolerance” towards minorities.
8. Ukraine is really divided. Just look at Ukrainian bloggers. Only nationalists from the West are shouting about unity. I watched the blog of a refugee from eastern Ukraine. She was against Russia, but when she came to western Ukraine, she was simply denied housing and services because she is from eastern Ukraine and she is not Ukrainian enough.
9. Isn't it? During WWI, Germany openly announced the creation of a vassal kingdom of Ukraine. After the outbreak of the Civil War in Russia, France and England signed an agreement on the division of Russia. Ukraine was supposed to become a dependent country on France.
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10. Again, only the West talks about this and refutes it itself. In Russia, monuments to Ukrainians have stood and are still standing. St. Petersburg, for example, has a monument to Mannheim, who fought against the USSR.
hahaha actualy ukrainians,are pronbably more related with bulgarians ,by blood, alfabet and clergy(after Basil the Bulgarslayer,most of bulgarian priests and bulgarian books(first slavic literature),run in Kiev i Volodimir Sozdal,where they are translated into russian and spread among ukrainians and russians
Soviet era not was about political ideology, but about totalitarian imperialism. Chechen wars and other Russian barbarism all about this
Russian people very barbaric, western ukrainians always was civil nation and pro freedom
Kyiv independent you used the wrong picture for pol pot you guys used the picture of the ex Cambodian king instead of the picture of pol pot
What abot 1,5 milion Jews killed by Ukraine nazi in the WWII?
It is mentioned at 08:20, and there's more on it in the 6th episode
3:15 "however Crimea had zero ties to Russia"
Thats like saying, Ukraine today had historically no ties to Crimea, Donbass etc.
If Russia had no ties to Crimea but Tatars are still Rus today how does Ukraine have ties to Crimea?
Ukrainians have ties from 1994 Budapest Memorandum.Russia recognised Crimea as a part of Ukraine, and Ukraine gave up their 1800 nuclear warheads.
@@RZakelis gifting a friend his land does not make it historically yours.
It could have been part of Ukraine but you can't force ethnic Russians to cheer for Bandera, to stop speaking Russian to stop living their culture. Ukraine made a mistake and forever lost Crimea.
Now Ukraine should re-think if they want to do the same mistake with Lwiw and other historically not Ukrainian cities. Don't think Poles will accept Bandera forever. They just wait for their chance. Hungary will do the same.
If Ukraine would have accepted the diversity and stayed neutral, there would be no war. Now it has lost its sovereignty, they will never be able to pay off the debt. Blackrock owns it.
@web30web it's funny.Russians deported local tatar population from Crimea, and you are saying that Ukrianians can't use force. It's soun hypocritical
@@RZakelis Tatars are Russians and still live in Crimea as well as in Tatarstan. They can practice their culture and religion in Russia just as Chechens, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Avars etc.
Something Ukraine needs to learn.
@web30web Tatars are Russians?Sorry, but it doesn't make any sense. Hundreds of thousands of Tatars were relocated from Crimea and now they are minority there. Russians can't practice their religion in Ukraine? But both nations are orthodox :) I'm hearing that Russians complain about learning Ukraine language, it is weird to my ears. When we all were part of Soviet Union, we had learn Russian, it was mandatory doesn't matter Ukrainians, Estonians or Kazakhs, we all could speak Russian. And now Russians somehow complain that they have to learn local languages where they live?
Some valid points on history, for sure, but some not. Saying Crimean Tartars are the rightful heirs if Crimea, then saying it belongs to Ukraine shoots one’s argument in the foot. If you are using the “let’s peel back years of history to see who the ‘good’ guys are” you will always be disappointed. For that matter, you might as well suggest reviving the Ostrogoths (ancient Germans), Greeks, Venetians, and Turks as rightful heirs. Turkey lost Crimea in a war that ended in the 1700s, and it has been ethnically Russian since, else a) the population of Crimea was largely Russian with a large portion of Jewish Russians (which explains why are there no Ukrainian WWII cemeteries there) 2) the referendum to return to Russia was overwhelming, 3) if the Crimea, Donetsk, and Lugansk are so pro Kiev, why are they being forced versus volunteering to give up their mother tongue? I could go on, but no need. To say that the Soviet Union mistreated Ukrainians would be an understatement, but that awful system did that to everyone, primarily Russians. So Stalin who was not Russian, like Hitler, who was not German, and Napoleon who was not French, exploited their power over subservient populations, with predictable results. As far as ancient history if the back and forth between Muscovy and the Kievan Rus, I think it is more complicated than this post suggests. The spread of Orthodoxy, the common faith of both countries, at least in name, is a major historical unifier. One point I totally disagree with is the take on the Maidan coup and the west. You’d have to be a moron not to see the hand of the CIA, the MIC, the Nulands, the Pyatts, the Kirbys, the Sullivans, the Bidens and their crooked, woke co-travelers as instrumental in all of this. They do this all the time, as did their precursors from Viet Nam and the Cold War, through all their little adventures since. No one, but no one advocates for peace here.
Instead of calling people morons, it would substantiate your claims if you'd provide credible sources. Personally, encountering the word 'moron' amidst an argument startles me in such a way that I tend to forget pushing the record button on my hippocampus.
Fact is Tatars are not Ukrainian, meaning Crimea never had ties with Ukraine.
"Most of the deaths from starvation in Europe were in the Soviet Union and Poland, countries invaded by Germany and occupied in whole or part during the war.
A central focus of Germany's war policy was overcoming chronic food deficits by conquering Poland and the fertile chernozem, or "black earth," region of Ukraine and neighboring republics of the Soviet Union, and expelling, starving, or killing the native populations. German farmers were to be resettled on the vacated lands, thus assuring Germany self-sufficiency in food and enabling Germany to take a secure place alongside the United Kingdom and the United States as a world power. "
Yeah, there were quite a few unvalid points/"facts" in this video, for sure. Unfortunally, that seems to be the case with a lot of videos, made by Americans (who have had their own fair share of propaganda) So getting a neutral view on history, can be pretty difficult..
Crimea got it’s independence before the Ukraine… 😂 they even had a president and a constitution from their 1991 referendum. Ukraine invaded in 1995, deposed the president and abolished their constitution. It was still called the Autonomous Republic of Crimea until 2014.
there should be more such videos on youtube
Thank you!
Slava Ukraine
The "successor to the Kyiven Rus" is a nonsensical title. In reality it was just dynastic infighting by the Rurikovids and Polish expansion which determined the centers of eastern european power after the Mongol invasions. The Rus as previously known simply ceased to exist.
This is a great video coming from total ignorance except recently learning (a lot) about the Einsatzgruppen and Babyn War (&c.)
I doubt it is unbiased being from a channel called for the biggest city - but it comes welcome to have such a barrage of history so well presented in such a short time.
So, Crimea was Russian between 1783 and 1954 and as Ukraine was still part of the Russian-controlled USSR in 1954, that end date could even be 1991? Did I understand that correctly?
0:05 where is Spain and Portugal?
08:20 "Ukraine suffered some of the heaviest losses in WW2"
This is if you assume that everybody who lived in today's Ukraine was ethnic Ukrainian which is totally wrong.
Because as we also remember parts of West-Ukraine was Poland/Hungary. Already forgot that part?
Ok, so if Ukrainians define themselves as Zap-Cossacks how does Ukraine as we know it today is also not Polish, Hungarian or Rus?
It would be interesting to know the % of ethnic Zap-Cossacks.
So far I understand, Ukrainians wants to keep the land which they historically didn't own and where other ethnic groups are majority.
The entire territory of modern Ukraine, except the Crimea, is its ethnic territory, where Ukrainians make up the majority of the population.
@@КітБезЧобіт that's false
@@web30web you're just an idiot🤷
@@web30web ur life is false. Cossacks are not an etnicity, Zap sich is a military organization. U literally know nothing about Ukraine, so better just stfu
LIER!!!
Absolute lies. Kossacs did NOT have land.
Belarussian Russian and ukrianian people is same people!
Russians NEVER destroyed ukrianian culture. Unlike the ukriane does.
Crimea is RUSSIA, it never ever had to do anything to do with the ukriane.
Crimea voted 97% in favor of Russia.
Golodomor was across ALL COUNTRIES!!! Not just the ukriane.
Cossacks state exist! russian and ukrainian not the same! dont spread lies!
@@oleglilu5003show us the map of Cossack State! I don't see Crimea or Donbass on it.
@@oleglilu5003Referendum 1991 was approved by the west because they wanted the fall of USSR. Referendum 2014 was ignored, 2022 was criticized. Why can't Ukraine/West allow DPR/LPR to be independent? If they know the struggle of being independent they should understand
But every time UA talks about the war, they talk about getting territory back, they don't want ethnic Russians to be part of UA. They started ethnic cleansing a while ago.
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The ukriane was created in 1922.
Kievskaja Rus has NOTHING to do with the ukrianian.
What about 60.000 Ukrainian children disappeared last years?!
do you mean children forcibly deported by Russia from Ukraine?
@@imatviyishyn Where are their parents?
@@TheBobVovait's a warcrime. Even if a child was in an orphange it is still a WARCRIME.
@@JNosewicz7569 What is it?
Ukraine has always been a nation, and sometimes a country, but this is its war of independence.
Sometimes a country? I thought for the first time since 1991?
War of ineldepedence? Yes for east Ukraine. But Ukraine has lost its independence long time ago. Don't think the west is spending billions for free.
UA is sold out. The west want the land back (because they invested too much) , Russia won't give it back and UA people are dying.
While I side with Ukraine and condemn the Russian attack, you're criticism of Marxism and socialism is merely your opinion. You can critique the Soviet regime with facts without resorting to sweeping generalizations and opinions.
07:45 "Ukrainians president is a jew"
1. Does Zelensky practice Jewish religion?
2. George Soros is also a jew, he does not practice it and he worked with Nazis which he does not even feel bad about it (his words in BBC interview).
Soros also said, Ukraine was his most successful project.
1. Russia never said Ukraine has no common with Rus.
2. Ukraine is always saying Russia has no common with Rus.
That's the difference.
Liar.
@@signorasforza354 No you
@@TheBobVova Ukraine is right
@@signorasforza354 It's not
@@TheBobVova Where is your bottle ivan?
FACT: Tatars are not UKRAINIAN.
We love you Ukraine
WE LOVE RUSSIA!!!
Tell us about #Lebensraum
This is a false illustration everything is turned around. Look up Captain the Great and Peter the Great not saying that these two people were any better than any. Colonial empires
Read about Volynhia genocide.
Tatars are Asians. From Turkish than Slavic. Not natives of Crimea. They entered the region during Kazharia Khaganate. Around the 8th century, I believe. Crimea was Gothic before that. So it should technically go to Germany 😅😂😂.
Are Tatar Ukrainian.
1:30 odnoszenie się do Rusi Rosji jak i Ukrainy jest mocno naciagane choc to w Rosji przetrwala gałąź rodu Rurykowiczow ktora stworzyła i zachowala państwowość. Dajej widze propaganda sie zaostrza. Pozdro
I have no idea why you've chosen this weird jokie editing style. It does not match the content!
Argument on Crimea is very weak, to say the least. Talking about it being Tatar and then suddenly at the end it is Ukrainian.
Yes, Ukrainian people the majority of the people there voted to become part of Ukraine after the USSR collapsed. Virtually every poll taken there indicates pro-Ukrainian sentiment was stronger than pro-Russian sentiment.
Only after Russia took it in 2014 did the polls show stronger pro-Russian sentiment, likely because they rig it like they rig their elections.
While this was good, there were several topics that are actually much simpler to understand. First, the Holodomor is best explained by the USSR stealing all crops and food from peasants, whor refused to have their farms collectivized, because Ukraine was the only nation at the time, in which farmers owned their own property, as opposed to being peasants working on someone else's land, or tenant farmers. This famine only occurred win the countryside, but not in cities. It's difficult to blame a harvest, when cities have food, but farms do not, and those cities are sealed off to not allow anyone to enter to get food. Next, Ukrainians are nazis is my favorite. Yes, some Ukrainians were more then thrilled at the prospect of Germany attacking the USSR, but that was because Ukraine wanted to be free of the USSR, because they were mostly farmers who owned their own land and didn't want to turn it over to the State, as indicated above, not because they liked the NAZIs. After the Holodmor, Ukraine was so weakened that the only hope was that if another nation attacked the USSR, Moscow would need to move troops from Ukraine to protect Moscow, which might have allowed Ukraine to force Soviet troops out of Ukraine. Germany was the only nation that openly threatened the USSR, to the point that the Kremlin signed a non-agression pact with the NAZIs, and only fought the NAZIs after Germany ignored that pact and attacked anyway. Up until German attacked, the Kremlin was more than happy to appease the NAZIs. While there were some people in Ukraine who fought on the side of the NAZIS, almost all of them were fighting against them by the end of the war, when it became better known what they were doing. Bandera was an example of this, who was even in a NAZI concentration camp by the end of the war. While there were NAZIs in Ukraine in recent years, most of them relocated to Moscow, on or around February 2022. Ilya Kiva is a wonderful example of this.
@ Что было не так? Объяснять забыла.
The true origin of “Rus”
The Vikings developed an existing city which is nowadays Kiev in the 9th century. They were called “Kiev Rus”.
This city was prosperous for centuries and was destroyed by the Mongols. It took several centuries to rebuild and flourish as before.
Moskovia (Moscow) developed 5 centuries later, in the 14th century - it was NOT called Russia.
Catherine the Great decided to call Moskovia “Russia” at the end of the 18th century. They stole all original historic documents from Kiev, changed them and from then on, Moskovia became Russia.
So Russia stole its name from Ukraine. So Ukraine is the real Russia. Nowadays “Russia” is Moskovia.
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