A Brief History Of Ukraine (And Why Russia Wants To Control It)
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- Опубліковано 20 бер 2022
- A Brief History Of Ukraine (And Why Russia Wants To Control It)
In this animated video, historian Matt Lewis tells the story of Ukraine's turbulent and often surprising history. Beginning over a thousand years ago with the formation of the Kyivan Rus state, Matt tracks the development of Ukraine during the Mongol invasions, its incorporation into the Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth, and eventually it's allegiance with the tsars of a newly formed Russia.
The ongoing crisis in relations between Russia and Ukraine is threatening to engulf eastern Europe in a war on a scale not seen since 1945. The eyes of the world are focussed on the military activity as politicians scramble to encourage a diplomatic solution that will deescalate the conflict.
Ukraine was known as the breadbasket of Soviet Russia. It remains politically, militarily, and economically important to Russia today. Precisely why there is a dispute over the sovereignty or otherwise of Ukraine is a complex question rooted in the region’s history. It is a story more than a thousand years in the making. For much of this story, Ukraine did not
exist, at least not as an independent, sovereign state, so the name Ukraine will be used to help identify the region around Kyiv that was so central to the story. The Crimea is an important part of the story too and its history forms a part of the history of the relationship between Russia and Ukraine.
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In this video there aren't mentioned such vital points of Ukraine's history as the principality of Halych-Volyn, the emerge of Cossacks and their uprisings (which didn't have joining Russia as their main goal), the Cossack Hetmanate and Zaporozhian Sich. It wouldn't be so difficult to tell about that. However, a part of video is dedicated to the Crimean War, which relates to Russia's history, not that of Ukraine. Ukraine itself didn't fight the Crimean War, the Russian Empire did. I understand this is called 'brief history' but 'brief' doesn't mean 'inaccurate' or 'partial'.
There was no independent Ukraine back then, so how else can you relate. History of Ukraine is history of Russia, even if you don't like it. Even the name comes from the word "outskirts", which implies it was the border region.
@@doktorkoka So, I see you are claiming you can relate more than me? First of all, the history of Ukraine is the history of the free people of Ukraine, it belongs primarily to them. We inhabit this land for centuries, so we own it. Everything that has been done by our ancestors on their (and our) land is our history. It's quite simple. And we know our history. However, we don't arrogate neighboring countries' history. People must know what is theirs and what belongs to others. Ignorance causes historical delusions and wars.
Concerning the word 'Ukraine'. The fact that it sounds similar to a Russian word 'outskirts' ('okraina') is not a linguistical or historiografical evidence of its meaning. The language was quite different in times when the word 'Ukraine' emerged. Initially, it was used to describe different lands of Rus bordering with other non-Rus territories. I haven't heard people using the word 'outskirts' to call any land that has an external border but I don't reject the fact that such border territories could have a specific term. Also, the word 'ukraina'/'ukrayna' was frequently synonymous to the word 'land' in different historical documents. In historical letters of the Cossack period, besides the word 'Ukraina' itself, the expression 'Ukraine of Little Rus' ('Ukrayna Malorossiyskaya') is used. Thus, it meant literally 'the land of Little Rus', not 'the outskirts of Little Rus'. The word 'Ukrayna' was used then as a name of the country and had nothing to do with 'outskirts'. If we even try to judge about the word 'Ukraine' through modern languages, I can mention some very similar words from Slavic languages. Here you go:
UA: країна - country
BY: краіна - country
SK: krajina - country
CZ: krajina - land
PL: kraina - land
SI: pokrajina - landscape
... and there is 'окраина', which corresponds to 'outskirts' in Russian. Only in Russian.
I think it's clear now.
@@kostiamarich but no one takes your land, the problem is the government, you can still be proud of your history and ancestors even being included in other state. Real Ukraine (I mean historically) and the territories that belong to the state now are totally different territories. It's a complex thing, and the border between two countries shows nothing but the borders. Historically most people living in modern Ukraine are russian people, as were cossacks, I believe they called themselves russian.
@@doktorkoka Firstly. It's not true that no one takes our land. I can't get to many places in Ukraine where I was before because these places are now invaded by Russia. I can't see my acquaintances there due to the same reason. Don't pretend you have no clue what's going on. Russia is the biggest country in the world. So I genuinely cannot understand: why is Russia so obsessed with gaining new territories? Secondly. It is very ignorant to say people in Ukraine are actually Russians. Actually, it offends me but I see you believe in your words sincerely. Ukrainians in the past called themselves with different names, such as 'ukrainskiy narod', 'rus'kiy narod', 'ukrainskie malorossiyane', 'savromaty', 'kozakorussy', 'kozaki', 'rusyny' and many other. The Ukrainians are East Slavs, so they are heritors of Slavic tribes of Southern and Western Rus as well as of nomadic tribes of the steppe (but not so much). We have our own unique gene pool which differs from that of Russia (containing more Finnic and Central Asian elements) and Belarus (sharing more common with Baltic peoples). We have our own language, folklore, political traditions, national heroes and the most important - national self-consciousness that has been existing for centuries. It didn't emerged once independent Ukraine appeared on the map. Ukrainians have always known they are not the same as Russians, even if it's obvious we share some similarities and the common source - Kyivan Rus. You just have to accept that history is moving. We don't want to fight with anybody but we have to because someone always doesn't like our existence as a separate independent nation. But we are so. You don't speak Ukrainian, you don't know Ukrainian folk songs, you haven't read Ukrainian literature, you know not much about Ukrainian mentality, you probably haven't been to Ukraine. But this is ours, and it's not Russian. If we are East Slavs too and our ancestors had a similar ethnonym deriving from the word Rus, it doesn't mean we don't exist but only you do. Just accept that and stop looking for a trick.
@@kostiamarich Why, I accept your existence and respect your independence as a person. It's just that state is not the real face of the nation. Ukraine as a state has little to do with real ukrainian people, same as Russian Federation is not russian people. Politicians always use people. Same as inquisition was not the true face of christianity. Speaking of that you can't visit many regions (and there are much worse problems) - it's fucking sad, man, I feel for you. Still, it's not the territory expansion war, it's a result of an obvious american plot. No western country is saving Ukraine with those weapons and "help", they're choking the country and people in it's blood, feeding the war. RF won't stop even if they drawn own people in blood. I wish the government could just yield and let RF put it's own people in charge, so no blood would be shed, but the situation wouldn't appear in first place (I mean the war) if they were not american puppets already. The war is a desperate move, and it was provoked by the american (and british) deep state, same as other slavic conflicts. As if everyone forgot already. I'm aching for everyone who have to fight though they never wanted violence, regardless of their beliefs or nation and side in the conflict. Both sides are sending people to die for their interests, and the people is the lamb. This is mad.
Much is not said, some things are mixed up and changed. It seems that the author read a couple of short articles about different aspects of the Ukrainian history, then tried to combine them without delving into the topic and important details
Agreed - gotta love it when idiots merely google search a topic whilst throwing in stock footage, claiming they're subject matter experts. Disgusting.
Lol this is true for most UA-camrs that talk about Muslim history!
Can you please be specific?
Well said. Lazy.
@@sonah9126 He is too young to be an expert. Listen to his voice.
Stalin was a Georgian and his first deputy in Soviet Occupied Ukrainian was Lazar Kaganovich a Jew......Kaganovich was the architect behind the Holomodor. I honestly and genuinely felt that this was worth stating!
What’s the point you’re trying to make..?
@@friedrichs753 You can't figure that out for yourself?
@@markfenwick4956 Surely you aren’t implying that Jews are behind everything are you?
I can’t watch a single thing related to history without someone making some asinine implication about Jewish people being in some evil global conspiracy.
Unless I’m mistaken about your point, as per my first comment..?
@@friedrichs753oy vey!
@@friedrichs753his point is that he's a bigoted anti-semite.
I learned just this year that I have Ukrainian in my history and culture. I am 64 years old. my 87 y o dad emailed me a map of farmland showing 1 plat of farm land to have our last name. It had something to do with Czar Katerina offering farmland to German settlers. I was told since my earliest days that I and my 4 siblings were 100% German. Apparently when a folllowing czar kicked them off the land, they came to the United States. My fa, landed in S Dakota. Im trying to learn more about the post- Roman, pre-Christian Germanic/ medieval history of my German culture.
*Empress Catherine the Great (Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg)
1. Catherine the Great invited Germans, German know-how to Russia. Not Ukraine.
2. If your ancestors were expelled by the Czar, they were expelled from Russia, not Ukraine.
3. I have never learned or heard that the Czar expelled Germans from Russia. They expelled Jews... But Germans?
4. Post-Roman Germanic areas became Christian very, very quickly. (became a part of Holly Roman Empire). And in the Middle Ages they were already Christian for about 900 years.
So what post-Roman pre-Christian thing are you looking for?
Russia not only wants to control Ukraine, it controls already its new/old territories (Dotentsk, Luhansk, Herson, Zaporozhie). People oh those territories voted on Referendums for return back to Mother Russia. There is Russian rouble there in circulation which replaced Ukrainian Grivna. And children there are educated in Russian. Hi from USA 😁😁
My mom was born on a Sioux Indian reservation in Timberlake S.D. on land the US govt gave to my grandparents who were from Russia, near Odessa. My grandparents left Russia not from pressure from the Russian government but because the lands the Russian govt. (Catherine the Great) gave German immigrants like my grandparents' ancestors had become scarce through consolidation of ownership over the course of a century, so by 1900 there was no place left for my grandparents to settle for themselves. In addition, the Tsar at the time wanted to draft my grandfather and his brothers into the Russian army to fight a war against Japan; another reason to leave. My family originated in Strassburg, Alsace before emigrating to Russia, and they still spoke German at home even with my mother's generation.
if one of your siblings is a woman and can suck the metal from a rail then it is a good chance you are.
My dad‘s family is Ukrainian; I’ve been able to trace our lineage back to the late 1700s. In 1926, my great-grandparents immigrated to Canada ahead of the Holodomor, but lost many family members in the intentional starvation of over 10 million people. Dido (my great-grandfather) lived to be 103, and so I grew up listening to his stories of his life in Ukraine. This video taught me even more than what I’ve read on my own about the history of Ukraine. Thanks for posting this! ❤️🇺🇦
It wasn't an intentional starvation, the exact same famine occurred in all of the central agricultural regions of the Soviet Union, at that time. It came as the cumulative result of years of civil war and political infighting, economic turmoil (widespread across all of Europe at the time as well) and enforced collectivisation of grain by the Soviet authorities, in order to help maximise exports and get the money needed to build Soviet industry, according to the Five Year Plan. Perhaps you're not aware of this fact, and it is actually one of the biggest errors and misconceptions of the public in general, who assume a famine only existed in present day Ukraine.
Russia never brought anything good to Ukraine; holodomor, communism, chernobyl...you name it
@@markeedeep Cool idea, but it is highly debated. Many believe that Stalin directed it at the Ukranian people and many countries view this to be the truth. The Ukranian people view it as a genocide. So be careful saying that it wasn't directly aimed at the Ukranian people because that is not know. What is known is that the Ukraine born the brunt of it and by far the most people died there.
Alberta?
@@wadopotato33 why ought I to believe it was aimed at any one group inside the SU, more than all of the others? Collectivisation of agricultural produce was universal, it was policy everywhere inside the SU.
Cossacks were fighting against moskovits together with lithuanians and treaty in 1654 was signed only because hetman had no choice he needed assistance in the war against poles and this decision was quite unpopular among elites. Cossacks were never favouring moscow. This page is so important in ukrainian history and this video says almost nothing about hetmanat, viisko zaporizske and cossacks.
You might also enjoy this one ua-cam.com/video/3I64qfy_qT0/v-deo.html
I think you men Zaporozhian Cossacks? There were multiple formations of Cossacks. Some Cossacks were later conquering Siberia for Russian Empire (although most of those territories were - and are to this day- uninhabited and some tribes agreed to join Russian Empire for protection).
Because it's a BRIEF history of Ukraine - can't go into every aspect of its history.
@@magpiegirl3783 as I said these points are quite important for understanding Ukraine's history
Thank you for your comment. It lead me to do some more reading on the situation, and has added to my awareness of more of the history of this part of the world.
In 1991 Ukraine voted 93% to be independent, with 84% of the population taking part in the vote. I think this says all I need to hear.
Slava Ukraine
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦❤️❤️❤️🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦❤️❤️
Lie
@@user-ly7yi3ip2l The word Lie doesn't cut it. Make your point tell us something we don't know. Surely.
prove your point or move on and let the potty-trained people talk...@@user-ly7yi3ip2l
Why when you had a choosing president he was shovels away back in 2014 by a coup?????
Because he was Russian minded and the NATO wanted control over this country!!!
With this willing of the NATO they didn’t hold on the agreement in the Minsk papers!
And what did the Ukrains back in 1950???, almost a Armageddon created!!!
And what did the Ukrains after 2014 with theire own people in the Donbas/crimea???
They are proving to be corrupt, why had Zelenski fired his generals????
So not slava ukrain, but slava freedom!
War never solved a problem!
@@saymyname3097there is so much you don’t know, so do we don’t know!
But do you’re research and the reason why you need to choose one side is totally ridiculous!
This war is not based only on a part of the country, Geo politics go way back to at least 1918 and up to the future!
The most people based theire conclusion on one part of the history and wave the previous history away!
Where two sides have a conflict both sides are responsible for this!
And where two dogs fight for the bone, Zelenski though he get away with it!😅
History is always written in the Blood of the Innocent. This current battle is just beginning 😔
Ukraine is far from innocent but okay, have fun with your lies. Russia and Ukraine both commit atrocities against each other since 2014, normal things.
you cannot write in blood, it's liquid.
@@rhino_force7679 Sorry Rhino. A lot of history has been written in blood. A common theme around the World.😔
thatb area belong to celtics not slavs.. its now a cursed land. !
well, Western Ukraine was annexed into USSR territory during WW2 after Soviet Invasion of Poland. Before that that western area was mainly a part of Austro-Hungarian Empire, so not Russia. That's quite important factor, as this part (around Lviv) is staunchly pro-Western.
@@jonathanr72 Poles did similar things as Stalin on those territories... polonization, destruction of Ukrainian language, heritage, culture, enslavement and denial of basic human rights... wild times
Ukraine was invaded by Russia during the Russian revolution almost right after it gained independence
In Habsburg times, Lviv was known by the German name Lemberg.
Your timeline is off. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved at the end of the First World War. There's twelve years between that dissolution and the Soviet invasion of Poland which you haven't accounted for.
Infact the nationalists and anti-russian come mainly from there, am I wrong? if they want a nazi Ukraine they can have it, but not with the borders of nowadays Ukraine because the people living in the east and in the south simply don't want them.
The video missed many important moments from the history of Ukraine. Even within the framework of a short retelling of the history and situation of Ukraine.
Aha. It tells nothing about inventing the gunpowder, the wheel, Jesus Christ beeing the Ukrainian and digging up the Black Sea. How dare they?! 😠
Such as? Just name e few. We really want to know.
Even mentioning the Holodomor on Reddit will get you banned as a far right conspiracy theorist extremist.
@@theobolt250 the most important moment from our history it is a The Ukrainian Revolution (1917-1921). In short, during those years, Ukrainians had their own state, the central bank, that is, the currency. There were many events in 4 years, managed by different people. The most important thing is that the Bolsheviks attacked our State and captured it and installed puppet governments of the so-called Soviet Ukraine.
Yes a few important key points are missing
Thanks for interesting and useful content. I am very interested in map reflected on 5:36. Where can I find it?
Bucovina cu Cernăuți,Hotin,Ismail,Cetatea Albă Akerman sunt România in urma tratatului Molotov Ribbentrop furate in 1940 din Basarabia de Hrusciov prin falsuri.Nu au aparținut niciodată UkraineiBucovina cu Cernăuți,Hotin,Ismail,Cetatea Albă Akerman sunt România in urma tratatului Molotov Ribbentrop furate in 1940 din Basarabia de Hrusciov prin falsuri.Nu au aparținut niciodată Ukrainei pana atunci.Rușine sa va fie.
Great summary, learned a lot from this vid.
"Cozaks... rebelled in favour of Russia". For one, "Russia" did not exist at that time. Russia got it's name "Russia" only in 1721. And two, no, you are factually wrong. Ukrainian cozaks wanted to be independent and fought dozens of battles against Moscow. It's only in the middle of 17th century that Ukrainian cozaks signed alliance with Moscow. A decision that a lot of cozaks did not agree with.
For starters, you're hair-splitting about the names. It is explicitly said at the beginning that MODERN place names are being used to avoid confusion, so who cares if they used "Russia" instead of "Muscovy". Second, the Cossacks lived on the frontiers and depending on which group you're talking about, some were temporarily allied to the Tsars, in an effort to screw over Poland or the Ottomans, others were integrated into the Russian military structure to exert greater control on the regions further east of the Dniper river, near modern-day Kharkiv. It is true that many Cossacks did resent the centralization of authority under the Tsars and fought against it, many more felt a greater affinity towards the Russians due to shared Orthodox traditions, and similarities in language---more so than with Poland and Lithuania.
@@matthewgillies7509 He's correct . Using the name "Russia" for muskovites , creates confusion , gives the impression that Moskow ever ruled Kievan Rus or inherited it's legacy . This is not the truth . By the time Moskow rose from the swamp to bargain with The Horde , Kiewan Rus was already splitted and was history . Moskow rose from under the tartars as an independent city state , not the capital of any Kiewan state . All the rest is conquered , annexed , aggressed etc . This is what characterizes today's wanna be Russians - the permanent aggression towards the neighbouring teritories, people , nations .
@@seaman5705 once again, incorrect. The Kievan Rus were not an unitary political entity, and the Rus/Ruthenian region was politically and military similar to the Italian city states, or the Swiss Cantons, or the contemporary Maya civilization. While there was a "chief" or paramount city for the cultural region, each major polis was ultimately administered separately and according to local custom. As Muscovy was the weakest, they submitted to the Mongols while Novgorod and Kiev did not. Subsequent history resulted in the slow drift of Rus culture into multiple groups, similar to the differences in language and traditions of various regions in China, Italy, and presently the English-speaking regions of the former British Empire. Russia has long claimed the mantle of "Rus" (about 500 years), so there is no inaccuracy or in describing the area as such in the video.
@@matthewgillies7509 I don't know what are you talking about . Kiewan Rus was an unitary political entity from 9th century, under Oleg , till 11th century , under Yaroslav . Then it splitted . Moskow , if I am not mistaken , was first metioned in the 12th century - no connection with Kiewan Rus . Don't really know how it became "grand dutchy" . because in the 14-15th century, was just a fortified village in a swamp - the swamp being the dutchy - no paramount city for the cultural region either . Actually there was no any culture in Moskow or arround it by that time - they where kind of savage swamp ogres like Shrek and they remained savage barbarians for another few hundred years .
There was no swift of Kiewan culture towards Moskow , but culture was asimilated and adopted with the conquering of teritories by this savage swamp people . Yes , some Rurikids moved to Moskow , but they ended in the blood bath of the swamp people . The swamp people , much like today , where not even slavic, but more finic , or balto-finic . See russian DNA today - finic and mongol more than slavic .
So there seems to be a propagated lie about the origins of today's Russia .
@@seaman5705 pardon if I listen to the expertise of Ukrainian with a PhD on the subject matter, over some random person online who takes exception to name place simplifications for a general audience.
The Rus were not a singular entity, and the strength of one Prince to subjugate his rivals does not translate into a unitary political system, particularly when multiple cities were Republics.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana (1863)
That's been disproved many, many times
those who cannot think of original comments are condemned to put pointless quotes instead
@@stronkserbia444 Better- those who do not LEARN from the past are condemned to repeat it. There's nothing pointless about it- IT IS TRUE.
@@Nancy-nc4sw I'm sure this is a repeat comment lol
They repeated it only because they remembered exactly how to. How would they invate my country if they didn't know it's possible?
Reading about the coincidence of Florence Nightingale and Count Leo Tolstoy being in Crimea at the same time, November, 1854. She to care for wounded British soldiers, He to fight in support of "Russia's expansionist ambitions." "Flight of the Wild Swan" by Melissa Pritchard"The more things change, the more they remain the same."
Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is following this very informative content cheers Frank 😊
Not even a word about Galician-Volyn principality. Not even a word about the king Danylo who was the rightful king of Rus and heir of the Rurik dynasty, who build a lot of cities in the eastern part of Rus like Lviv and who was the only ruler of so-called Rus states who kept on fighting the Golden hord unlike nothern states who just gave up and paid tribute.
Not even a word about Zaporozhian Sich and famous cossack hetmans. You could have mentioned Bohdan Khmelnitsky at least.
Ukranian identity began to emerge more fully in 19th century, really? And what in your opinion our ancestors were doing before that time?
They lived on this land and spoke their own language and were fighting for their identity.
You've made good short documentary, but I'm really pissed that after the destraction of Kievan Rus you have a blank space like ukranians never existed and then they suddenly "emerge" only in 19th century.
As I said to some others who were unsatisfied with the video: this isn't an academic paper or a Ken Burns documentary, it is a historical appetizer. It is for the layman, it is designed to foster some interest in the regions' history, not dump it all on them at once.
"who build a lot of cities in the eastern part of Rus like Lviv" since when is Lviv in EAST of any RUS??? Never was & never will be.
@@abominabelleddcadent5634 He may have mistaken - east instead of west , but otherwise he's right .
Don't worry. Soon Kiev will be renamed to Putingrad.
@@SJ-nl6xl Don’t worry. Soon Putin will join Zhirinovsky.
Completely disagree with the analogy that Ukraine to Russia is Cuba to the US. Russia always had the west at its doorstep. The US did not have the east at its - until Cuba received missiles.
Agreed- the US did not attempt to put nuclear weapons in Ukraine. This was about the basic right to self determination
Agreed- the US did not attempt to put nuclear weapons in Ukraine. This was about the basic right to self determination
Ukraine is Texas. If the US broke up and lost it.
Absolutely right ✅️
completely disagree with your analogy too: Poland, Ukraine, Baltic countries, Finland, Romania (Moldova) have nobody on their sides against Moscow expansionism. Has been that way even before US become superpower in 1945 or NATO was founded in 1949. Poland was even nearly incorporated into a Soviet state during Lenin's 1917-1920 war.
Slava Ukraini! A brave country and deserving of our help. Thank goodness we have given it.
There are gas reserves in the grounds of east and north-east Ukraine. Traces have also been found in the Black Sea.
West ukraine was also the first and the biggest suplier of gas in ussr
"Precisely why there is a dispute over the sovereignty or otherwise of Ukraine is a complex question rooted in the region's history"
And there was me thinking it had something to do with its huge riches in metals and massive untapped natural gas reserves that threaten EU dependency on Russian supply.
Self interest often requires some grand historic link to make rape, pillage and plunder appear less heinous.
My thoughts exactly. 🤔
@H G E So you know, I'm the OP and I thumbed up your comment. You're entirely right. Also, there is an idea of making the New Greater Russian Empire. But first it's theft, then it's fear of the power of democracy and then it's craving geopolitical power. In that order I suspect.
The EU is financially broke.. Russia wasn't....
Well said .
I like how you casually ignore how Ukraine wasn't so keen on being Soviet. There was an internal struggle. So it makes no impact that Ukraine was a founding state of the USSR as they were puppets of Russia.
I love how you casually ignore Russians themselves fought a huge civil war after WWI, which was borne precisely out of a nationwide anti-communist rebellion. So Ukrainians were not the only ones who hated the Soviet government, ya know?
@@markeedeep oh yes, my bad. It's unfortunate that those were denazified in Siberia.
Just like every Soviet country ever, USSR was never a proper country, it's a military occupation, it's shouldn't and can't exsist forever because it's illegal to begin with.
You offer a useful and important correction - that there was an internal struggle in Ukraine about whether or not to join the USSR - then undermine yourself by saying something that is a historical distortion - that they were "puppets of Russia." Once Ukraine joined the USSR, it was by no means a "puppet", it was quite a formidable and integral part of the USSR. Yes, autocratic rule from Moscow undermined the agency of soviet republics, particularly under Stalin. However, people easily forget that there were powerful bureocratic and governmental institutions in place within the USSR through which could be used to assert pressure on Moscow - not democratic pressure, but pressure nonetheless. In that sense, the Soviet Republic of Ukraine was a force to be reckoned with in Moscow.
I recommend that you separate your political views from your grasp of history. Ideology tends to just distort history and keep you from really seeing things clearly. (Just a tip from a friendly historian.)
Ukraine's relationship with Russia is extremely complex. It is a messy history, at the very least. But even if Ukrainians were wholly "Russian" (as Putin claims, citing the fascist philosopher Ilyin and others), it would not justify his recent attempt to invade and overthrow the democratically-elected Kiev government.
@@markeedeep "Anti-communist" is a loaded and imprecise word for the contingency you are referring to in the civil war that came after the Russian Revolution. The term "anti-communist" is from the Cold War and implies opposition to nation states run by totalitarian communist regimes like Maoist China or the USSR. For the Russian civil war, it is more accurate to use their own terms. "The Whites" opposed "the Reds." Or, "Anti-Bolshevik." Ideologically, the Whites were actually a loosely banded together group of Russians from all varieties of political orientations - monachists, republicans, conservatives, classic liberals, and even former Menshavik social democrats. (The Menshaviks were social democrats, a variety of socialism, who split into two camps at the start of the civil war.)
I recently learned that I am actually Ukrainian decent 🇺🇦 my dad was from a Jewish family 🇮🇱 but he came out atheist later in life so I didn’t grow up with the customs. I was always told our family came to america 🇺🇸 by boat 🚢 from 🇷🇺 during the revolutionary war 🔥 what ℹ didn’t know is that Ukraine was concurred by Cathrine the great herself centuries ago, and so for a long time Ukraine was part of the imperial Russian empire.
Anthem of the USSR starts with words:
The indestructible union of free republics was united forever by Great Rus'
Hmm very informative. This helps me have an idea of what is going on and why.
As it was mentioned in comments, no word about Galician-Volhynian principality (kingdom), no word about how cossacks appeared, about hutsuls (Oleksa Dovbush, Opryshky resistance), about Koliyivshchyna, unions with Poland and how was formed greek-catholic church, no word about spread of ukrainian language during Galician-Volhynian principality. The most important parts about our intelligence like: Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Ivan Kotlyarevskiy, Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrayinka, Myhaylo Drahomanov, Yevhen Pluzhnyk, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Myhaylo Hrushevskiy, Volodymy Sosura, Maksym Rylskiy, Vasyl Stus, Lina Kostenko. No words about "Executed Renaissance" shooted by soviets and Prague group "Prague school" (Olena Teliha) shooted by nazis in Kyiv in "Babiy Yar". No words about our national theatre and Solomia Krushelnytska. About our composers like Mykola Leontovych who wrote "Shchedruk" (Carol of the bells), Myhaylo Verbytskiy. About our producers like Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About our scienetists and engeeniers like: Ihor Sikorskiy, Illya Mechnykov, Mykola Amosov, Serhiy Korolev, Ivan Pulyuy, Volodymyr Vernadskiy. No words about Carpathian Ukraine in Czechoslovakia and resistance in Hust where was fight with hungarians when Hitler annexed Czechoslovakia. You missed these important parts of our history and make other people think that we always were part of russia (that stealed name Rus and named itself so in 18 century)
---- > I didn't get the impression that Ukraine was always part of Russia. My understanding is that the video referred to the Cosacks as mongols who invaded the Kyivan state, people, originally, from Sweeden, Finaland and tha Baltic states. It would seem that Russia has less of a claim to Ukraine than does the Norwegian and Baltic states.
The video explains that Russsia, Belsaus emerged from, formed after the Kyivan state(Ukraine). . To me, it seems that Russia wants to claim the culture of Ukraine even as they are destroying it. Russian culture, today, seems like the culture of Stalin.. Putin's recent seizure of Ukrainian grain seems no less horrific than Stalin's Holodomor of 1932-1933.
What Russia is doing is war crimes and genocide. I wouldn't want to see Russian civilian refugees but I think Ukraine should not be restrickted from returning fire that comes from inside Russia. I hope Ukraine can establish its independence permanently.
@@jannmutube thanks for understanding. We ukrainians wish collapse of russia, because without it this war would repeat in a few years and then again it will look like endless fight. But we don't want to annex some regions (even if they historically belongs to us: fully Slobidska Ukraine and Kuban regions), because we would recieve more problems from it. Also I would mention about our ukrainian intelligence during all history. In our ukrainian history books a great attention is concentrated at our intelligence and we learn about them on our ukrainian literature lessons and on our lessons of ukrainian history, but when I see some information or videos about our History there are no mentions about Taras Shevchenko, Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Ivan Kotlyarevskiy, Lesya Ukrainka, Ivan Franko, Yevhen Pluzhnyk, Vsevolod Nestayko, Maksym Rylskiy, Vasyl Stus, Mykola Khvyloviy or any other poets.
@@maksymkashchuk5420 --- > Historically, Russia has no special claim of origin or cultural heritage over Ukraine. Putin's effort to destroy Ukrainian culture is an effort to legitimize the Putin regime's lie of, itself, being"mother Russia" using genocide as a tool to establish revisionist history .
The ignorance of the media in general is disturbing. However, I was not aware of the history until I viewed this video
.... Putin, surely, knew that Ukraine would not be accepting of his "special military operation". Russia's current military tactics are steeped in its historical practice of genocide against the Kyiv Rus State (Ukraine).
.... @ 5: 43, 1804, a Russian separatist movement in Ukraine banned teaching Ukraine language;
.... @ 6: 52, 1876 , another ban on teaching Ukrainian language, also banned books, art, and public forums in Ukraine language;
....@ 7: 58, 1930s, the Holodomore - state sponsored famine by Stalin, stole grain and animals starved 4 million Ukrainians to death in order to finance his own agenda,
. . ..@ 13: 10, Kyiv appellate court convicted Stalin, posthumously, of genocide against Ukraine in 2010.
Excellent comment.
Nobody steal your history... belorussian ukrainians and russians have the same ancestors... deal with it. Bye the way, in the 15th century the Greeks call the people of Rus, rossija.
Totally miss the story about the energy resources in East and south Ukraine..
Yep, my thoughts too. Ukraine is full to the brim with unexploited(yet) resources AND they were moving towards the EU. They would have become russia's biggest competitor for oil, gas and all the other goodies they have in their soil or grow on it. No surprise russia wants to put a stop to this. ua-cam.com/video/BftqoZOryDo/v-deo.html
Clear and concise. Great thanks 👍
Very nice job. Complex history.
the map of ukraine from 1922 is not accurate, the territory was much smaller until 1945.
Until Stalin in 1945 and Nikita Khrushchev in 1954. Prior to that, Lenin, who allotted huge swaths of historically Russian territories to the Ukrainains.
@@calicocat8213 also hungarian, polish, romanian
@@Sashalexandros That, I think, was Stalin after 1945 (Yalta Conference). The fact is, the Ukrainians have never been known as kind or at least tolerant to minorities and/or cohabitants of any terrain. Any experiences or recollections, family history?
@@calicocat8213 Parts of Basarabia were attributed to USSR in 1940, when it was ocupied briefly by soviets. In fact, in the early soviet days the Party's leaders were ukraineans, theese 2 facts combined could allow to believe that the plan to divide romanian lands were at least made in the 30's. I can say only that in the attempt to destroy romanian population, my family name was ukrainized as an attempt to lower romanian the population number. Also I know that ukraineans have very cheauvenistic jokes about us, unbased. They didn't integrate well into society. In ukrainean history, they clame that they have been living here for hundres of years, yet the census of prior to russian ocupation shows that the percentage of foreign ethnicities was 11%, which became majority by 1918. It evolved into conflict with ukraineans who came on our lands as colonizers, they wanted to rip parts of our country and integrate into ukrainean state. Understandable sentiment, but don't tear pieces of other people's houses. Also search "ukrainean territorial demands at Paris peace conference 1919".
@@Sashalexandros Thanks, I'll make sure to look it up.
I could have missed it… but where is the root of the prominence of the Ukraine?? You just briefly mention the Cossacks and then from no where say the Ukrainian language was banned… but don’t shed any light on how Ukraine and its language came to be proliferated?? Feels like an important aspect of this history is missing.
About Ukraine: nation created in Lenin's time (not to be confused with the history of the city of Kiev and/or with Kievan Rus & its Rurik dynasty started by Prince Rurik of Novgorod; Novgorod is an ancient Russian city), but only theoretical/administrative terms, since it remained under Russian control in the Soviet era, the conformation of its territory today consists mainly of territories that have historically belonged to the Russians (from the center to the eastern and southern side) and the western side has historically belonged to Poland.
Important issue about Poland: the h4tred of the Poles towards the Russians is immense and it is they who have partly influenced the western part of Ukraine, this h4tred is historical, since Poland and Russia have had multiple w4rs for several centuries, even the Poles invaded Moscow at some point and were driven out by the Russians (look for the monument to Minin and Pozharsky in Moscow's Red Square). Now if you add this historical h4tred towards Russia with Neo-Naz1 elements (in western Ukraine) that by default relate Russia to the greatest enemy of the Naz1s, that is, the Soviets, who ended up destroying their beloved H1tler, you will have a gigantic anti-Russian national1sm, which the United States has been able to use as a geopolit1cal tool against the Russ1ans.
On the current crisis: The people of Donbass are ethnic Russians and they did not support the 2014 coup, as those who took control of Kiev (with US backing) are openly xenophob1c against the Russians, they even banned the Russian language in Ukraine, which is the native language of the people living in Donbass. Ethnic Russians have lived in Donbass for several centuries, so at the moment they are defending their families and the lands where they have lived for many generations. People living in Donbass voted in a referendum to gain more autonomy and stay inside Ukraine, the latter being important as it shows that the Western narrative that the Donbass conflict was started by "pro-Russian separat1sts" is not is so true and this was part of the typical western pr0paganda to confuse the world about reality and adapt everything to the western narrative of "it's Russia's fault", I repeat "the people of Donbass did not vote for independence from Ukraine and/or to join Russia, they voted to have more autonomy within Ukraine", in fact this is the basis of the famous Minsk agreements that Kiev and the West refuse to implement (accusing Russia of not complying with them, when Russia does not has obligations in the agreement), and it has to be repeated that the people of Donbass wanted this because they simply never accepted the 2014 coup, which brought to power people who h4te ethnic Russians.
The Ukrainian army launched an 4ttack on these regions in 2014, moving its entire 4rsenal against the civilians of Donbass, this topic is important since the w4r takes place in the lands of Donbass, therefore civilian v1ctims are always the civilians who live in the Donbass (usually the Western media always interviews Ukrainian civilians living in regions that do not suff3r the real consequences of these w4rs), the people of Donbass won practically all the b4ttles, there were a lot of material on youtube about these b4ttles, where they showed civilians f1ghting aga1nst the Ukrainian army, but youtube has cens0red almost everything. These victories should not really surprise us too much, since the people of Donbass were defend1ng their homes against people who h4te Russians (their ethn1city), any of us would fight with full force if you see that your family is thre4tened by crazy rac1sts that h4te your friends and family, today after all the 4ttacks they have received by Kiev, if they hold a new referendum it is very sure that they will vote to join Russia, they have already seen the true face of the Westerners and of those they control Kiev today.
It is true that Russ1a supports those Russ1ans who live in Donbass, in fact it has more right to do so than the illegal military presence of the Y4nkees in northern Syr1a ("support1ng" the K*rds and steal1ng Syrian oil along the way), the inhabitants from Donbass are ethn1c Russ1ans, they are in lands close to the Russ1an border (secur1ty issue), they have an obvious connection with Russ1an culture and above all they share many family members with Russ1ans, for this reason after 2014 many residents of Donbass have obtained a Russian p4ssport (Russian citizensh1p).
@@Dirtmiy what a bullshit you just shitted on the Internet 😅 go to the restroom please, Putler poppy
Everything that is said here cannot be denied (at least for a part or bigger part). But the Ukranian language is just the oldest form of Russian. Just as Belorus has also it's own variation thereof. The factors that do differentiate it from "regular" Russian are geographical, ethnical and maybe to some extend religious/political. Such a proces of differentiation is seen everywhere in the world. So, don't forget, Ukranian is OLDER than Russian!
And yes, you missed it! Like this video said it STARTED with the Duchy of Kyiv! They were dominant from the 10th up to the 13th century. In the beginning of the video. Can't miss it actually.
@@Dirtmiy 2014 wasn’t a coup bro… it wasn’t an organisation it was the people themselves… in dictionary terminology that’s known as a revolution, but please do go on about how Russia is the second country in history after nazi germany to invade a country based on existential threat horseshit. They’re not xenophobic either… you just keep threatening them to the point where they can’t stand you (can’t blame them)… and the US only backed them through infrastructure, nothing wrong with that… moral of the story if Russia wanted to avoid this… don’t threaten people, don’t starve people to death and don’t invade under horseshit accusations.
Great summary!
Excellent. Thank you.
Ukraine has been through a whole lot. damn
I agree with Lewis Fadipe 100 %. This fight has been going on for over 1000 years!!!
Ukraine has been a free nation for 30 years and has every right to remain free. Peace for Ukraine.
@@bluemoon6380 Free to murder their own citizens? They could've had peace. They chose war, or, to be precise, they allowed their leaders to drag them into war. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
@@bluemoon6380 it has not been free for a day, it is now in the hands of the USA as we speak. It will be free when the international world will leave it alone, that includes Russia.
@@bluemoon6380no free not own by corrupt oligarch Jews helping the cia who use Nazis in exile in Canada .
Decent compendium but role of Poland in Western Ukraine up to 17.09.1939 is completely neglected.
Polland was same as russia.....were killing Ukrainians and its language
Wasn't there 2 main rivals in the modern Ukrainian/Belarusian/Russian territories during the Viking age period? The Duchy/kingdom of Novgorod (Modern St. Petersburg) and the Duchy/Kingdom of Kiev? Both were founded by Swedish vikings when some decided to settle in these Slavic lands. You had ofcourse other smaller duchies/kingdoms like Moscow and others, but they were insignificant compared to these other 2 duchies/kingdoms at that time? Why wasn't that mentioned in this video and covered? From what I learn and understood, the novgorod/kiev rivalty conflict could be compared with the northern Egyptian kingdom vs the southern Egyptian kingdom in ancient times. Sometimes the other were more powerful than the other, sometimes they were separated as 2 individual entities and sometimes unified as one grand duchy/kingdom. I might be wrong about this, if anybody has more deeper knowledge about this, then let me know!
Basically, no. The rivalry was there but it was rather soft. Novgorod was the first capital until Rurik (the first ruler of Rus) died, then the capital was moved to Kiev and that was it. After the fracturing of Rus into several duchies (100 years before the Mongol invasion) there of course was rivalry between all of them, including Kiev and Novgorod.
@5:00 "Following war between Ottoman and Russian empires. Crimea was briefly independent before being annexed" The Crimean Khanate had some independence from 1774 till 1783 it was annexed.
But The Crimean Khanate Tatars had nothing in common with Ukrainian Cossacks living around Kiev.
It is very difficult to summarise a 1,000 plus history in 18 minutes but but overall you touched on many of the main events.
It's not difficult at all. Ukraine is Russian and has been for 1000 years. The only anomaly here is the 31 years apart from mother Russia. 1000 vrs 31, yeah we know the answer.
@@sandraleiva1633, Russia owned Crimea from the 1700s to 1991, when they stupidity gave it away.
@@sandraleiva1633 💯
No, it is missing important facts and there are some false information's like the whole today Ukraine was incorporated into the USSR since 1917. It was not, the west part was taken by Poland which created Banderities (it was anti-Polish movement and not anti-Russian as there were no Russians there). This and centuries of western Ukraine being not part of Russia led into the big split of West vs East Ukraine. This split was reason for the Donbas & Luhansk rebellion against western Banderities in 2014 because they do not understand why Banderities are so xenophobic to Russians. There is no mention that the Ukraine border after WW1 were different than now - right-wing Ukraine (Banderities) consider Poland and Belarus as illegal occupiers of part of their territory and have territorial claims against them. The Donetsk was not part of the Ukraine in 1918 but incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR by USSR. There is no mention that Crimea was never of Ukraine and wanted to proclaim independence 3 times since fall of USSR - in 1992, 1994 and 2014. However, every time the Ukraine blackmailed them with military pacification so the third time, they were forced to join Russia to avoid bloodbath like in Donbass. TL;DR - Ukraine was like former Yugoslavia, being in fact a joined state of 3 different nations formed by centuries (West Ukraine, Eastern Ukraine, Crimea).
Even mentioning the Holodomor on Reddit will get you banned as a far right conspiracy theorist extremist.
Nothing about the Natural gas reserves (including large, off-shore deposites around the Crimean peninsular) that were found not long before Ukraine moved to make closer ties with the EU in 2014, lessening the EU and most to NATO's reliance on Russia for energy & heating during the winter AND threatening the profits of an industry that makes up around 1/3 of the Russian economy?
This is the work of an individual who has google searched the history of the region within one day, before writing a quick transcript to some stock footage and adobe after effects. This is amateur to say the least and an insult to the Ukranian people. I'm suprised this pisstake is still online for viewing.
NATO reliance in energy? Why would a "Defensive Alliance" need energy in quantities it'd have to "rely on"?
As an American deprived of all European history, this video gave me more questions than answers. I need you to use accurate terms. Germany wasn’t Germany in WW1, I know that at least
I listened to an interview with Kryuschev’s son where he clearly stated that control over crimea was given over to Ukraine because it was one of the most impoverished regions at that time and needed a local government to start managing it.
Crimea was still massively ethnically Russian at the time, they lend their trust to keep their Russians safe, and well to Ukraine, and when the coup happened which put a Pro-Western, anti-Russian president in 2014, they obviously saw a great mistake there, and went to liberate their Russian lands, Donbass regions broke away for the same reason since they were ethnically Russian. The first Ukraine-Russo war was the most reasonable conflict ever in Eastern European history.
@@lch7732 ha ha bot
apparently, Crimea did not have a lot of sweat water and needed this water from the Donbas region that's why it moved from Russian SSR to Ukrainian SSR (among other logistic reasons)
@@lch7732 you right
@@lch7732 Yeah, but people on here are just going to call you a bot because they lack the historical knowledge and general brain capacity to deal with any of this.
It is a complicated history. But the bottom line seems to be the emergence of a unified new country with historical ties to Russia that seeks to retain both its independence and ties with the West. Many people in the US do not understand the richness of its agricultural resources and certain areas of manufacturing that have entwined it in the global economy. We are feeling the effects of that even in our own prices in the US as the economy of Ukraine is TEMPORARILY shut down.
I agree whole hearted. I have to admit that i strayed from the topic in a impressive way 😇
The only place in the world that have better soil than Ucraine is the furthermost part of Sweden (here). The Swedish 10+ lands is however tiny compared to the Ucrainian lands.
In the 19'th century, Sweden built railway tracks and stations allover this land and nowadays (i was against it 😇) we build windmills on everything that doesn't have outdated railway tracks.
This fact might be outdated but (last i heard, about a year ago) Sweden had 4850 active windmills. We have loads of hydro from northern Sweden, nuclear from the middle of Sweden and wind/sun from everywhere. I have a "environmentally friendly" energy subscription (not what i hoped for but we all know how voting function in a household).
Looking at my energy bills i (shockingly 🤡) learn that i had 0,0% of my energy usage from sunpower and between 0,8 and 2,0% from wind. This is obviously simplified numbers but the 98-99% of my needs is actually satisfied by hydro from the far north of Sweden.
To transport energy cost energy (that's how a radiator functions). Somewhat overkill statistics but an undisputable fact--> during WWII, Germany used four times as mush fuel to transport fuel, as they used to wage war (that Germany used coal to create the power needed to make gasoline from coal isn't something that the Greens mention every day 😨)
Spend 4 $, €, ¥, dog turds, something to get 1 in return. Vote Green.
We aren't really feeling anything that has to do with Ukraine. That's what the West blames to justify it's agenda. Food can easily be produced in many other places.
Because US aended to much weapon and Zelensky put the own country on SAIL. That he bekame an real Slaves of own and this part of sistem which he leaded himself.. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
The economy of Ukraine is dead and will never come back. Those who started this conflict between Russia and Ukraine are intrested in destruction of both countries. Stupid zelenski is a little dog on a leash. Insignificant actor who has been paid handsomely by scumbags of west, including grand Master Schwabb to bark loud and fancy. He is the first who will betray his own people.
Ukraine merged after WW2 with Russian influence. It was like the uk to Ireland and Scotland. If you had given the east a vote during the last 8 years. They would have left West Ukraine. West Ukraine wouldn't let them leave as the East Ukriane is rich of resources including wheat and gas. Also industry. The EU is trying to grab it.
Can bashers make their own version of Ukraine history please? I’ll be glad to watch your own version.
"Our version" of history, as you define it, is academic and fundamentally different from that offered by the Kyiv manipulators, in that it is based on an evidence base, on historical documents generally recognized by the world community.
I didn’t see anywhere your comments on the CIA and The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made?!!!
Even mentioning the Holodomor on Reddit will get you banned as a far right conspiracy theorist extremist.
@@kehenabeach4418 fool
@@chingizsalla is someone‘s feelings hurt?
The comparison to Cuba is a bad analogy. The United States has not considered Cuba to be a "Little America".
Therefore, they just staged a sanctions blockade there and literally supported the open state revolution (Bay of Pigs) lol
This is an interesting lecture but I find it difficult to focus while a concert is playing at the same time. It’s best to have one or the other, not both together.
Sorry, the end of the video is very wrong. Ukraine/Russia is not similar to Cuba/US. Cuba brought nuclear weapons to threaten US. Ukraine, on the other hand, gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange of recognition of its sovereignty by Russia, which is now deeply ignored. Cuba was escalating the conflict, Ukraine tried the exact opposite - they did try to calm the situation down. Obviously, once attacked on all fronts, you cannot do anything else that fight back, and Ukrainians have my respect for that.
Well, well, well; it is not as simple!!!
You are correct sir, I caught that mistake also.
And what can you say about the bay of pigs invasion just months before the Cuban crisis? You think America so good or?
That was just one of many disgraceful errors with this video - makes me sick to think this channel claims they're subject matter experts.
I was under the impression that some western parts of modern Ukraine were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of WW1. They then became part of the re-established nation of Poland, and didn't become part of the USSR until WW2, which likely made integration into a Russian - ruled Soviet Union even more difficult for the Ukrainian people in that part of the country. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
You are right Lviv = Lemberg. Lots of people from austria-hungary moved there due to cheap land, and vision of new start. Something like journey to amerika, but eastwards. Poles, czechs, slovakians most of them killed by banderistas in ww2
My grandparents are all from western Ukraine in what was as the time Austria-Hungary. At the end of WWI the Ukrainian part became the West Ukrainian People's Republic for less than a year before losing to Poland. Western Ukraine and southern Poland are part of an area once known as Halychyna (Galicia). Poles and Ukrainians have had some bad history between them (like many neighboring peoples) but the common, centuries' old enemy of Muscovy/Russia unites them.
No you're not mistaken. The USSR was created by forcefully annexing all those Western territories, including 3 independent Baltic states. Only Finland resisted and managed to remain independent although at a very high price. Russia during it's entire history was conducting aggressive wars instead of developing it's own resources and building prosperity for itself. The main premise for Russian empire and the USSR were based
@@annavorobiev5081 that was not the question anna, no reason to mixed in your xenophobia hatred here. And those aggressive wars are compare to of those of colonial britain, spain, regime changes of usa, or what we talking about here?
Even mentioning the Holodomor on Reddit will get you banned as a far right conspiracy theorist extremist.
The history of Ukraine and Russia is convoluted like most countries history . Nothing is static.
The country of Ukraine is undergoing another stage in its history, the people of Ukraine are determined to have their own Country, and are paying with the blood of their people.
From the very beginning
My sympathy was with Ukraine, and I feel even stronger now.
Russia is a large Country, it doesn’t need the land, but it just wants it, because it thinks it can.
Slava Ukraini .
I learned some more about Ukraine history today, I don’t know if it was completely accurate. It doesn’t matter.
Ukraine has the right to decide for itself.
Great historic overview. Thankyou
Even brothers separate to form their own families. It should not be annoying to see regions separating and forming their own countries. Circumstances and occasions occur to warrant these separations.
The problem is that this division is useful and invented by Anglos. And Look at Anglos: they never divided them selves. Even India still has a formal alliance with UK. Even US is working hand to hand with Britain. That’s why they are so powerful. UNION. That’s why China is so powerful. UNION. That’s why Russia WAS so powerful before Anglos put his shit. And that’s why they push division (search the Independence “heroes” en Latin America against Spanish Empire and search who support the black legend in America against Spain. Spoiler: Anglos). Slavic people has to do the same as panarabs: UNION. PanSlavism is what Russia government seek and that looks a good idea if you don’t want to be divided and be de dog of Anglos. If not, Russia soon will be divided and dominated by Anglos like is Latinamerica right now.
@@rodoespinosa4680 this is not true. A sense of Ukrainian and Ruthenian identity separate to Russians and Poles has existed for centuries. There have been several attempts at an independent state of Ukraine that were crushed by either Poland or Russia over the years before we achieved independence through a referendum (in which all oblasts voted for independence). Pan-slavism is just imperialism under another name.
Not when you lost over 50 million people in WW2 and have been invaded countless times by the West. Being that Ukraine is flat and easy to invaded and reach the Russian core.
@@sandraleiva1633 Sandra) thanks for adding. What inspires you?
@@rodoespinosa4680 Anglos never divided themselves? Are you kidding? Did we just imagine the War of Independence? The fact that we still cooperate does not make us a single nation.
The Anglos are Germanic (in case you didn't know). We still cooperate with Germany and France much of the time but the Germanic tribes that founded these SEPARATE nations went their SEPARATE ways a long time ago (following the decline of Rome).
I imagine a lot of Ukrainians are more than willing to cooperate with their Russian cousins. They just don't want to be their pets. They don't want to be Russian. Just like Americans don't want to be Brits. They want to do things a bit differently. And good for them.
Oh, and as far as we know, the Anglos (as you call us) were actually mostly Saxons (a closely related but SEPARATE Germanic tribe that had DIVIDED even further back in time). But that's an even longer story of separate nation building.
Ironically, if you want a popular culture analogy for the destruction of Chernobyl and how that destroyed the USSR as a state; forever ending Russian control over Ukraine: look to "Star Trek VI: the Undiscovered Country"- it is really something of a perfect analogy set in space: Gorbechev is Chancelor Gorkon, Praxis is Chernobyl; it fits to a T; and was filmed at the same time-period as those events, specifically the end of the Cold War in both cases.
Nooooo, not at all! It was not reason
@@user-hv9vn4fi4w Actually, it is based *precisely* on those events, regarding the movie.
@@chissstardestroyer 🙄🙄
@@TheRealBillBob What do you mean by *that*, pray tell?
I wish I didn't get this.
Some specific, pivotal points, details regarding the Rise of Ukraine.
"Out of the chaos into which Russia fell after the Revolution of the February1917, a NEW NATION now emerges - the "Ukrainian People's Republic."
"Dismembered Russia- Some of the Fragments"
"The New York Times" February 1918
Canadian scholar Orest Subtelny about this newly emerged Nation - Ukraine:
"In 1919 total chaos engulfed Ukraine. Indeed, in the modern history of Europe no country experienced such complete anarchy, bitter civil strife, and total collapse of authority as did Ukraine at this time. Six different armies..., operated on its territory. Kyiv changed hands five times in less than a year. Cities and regions were cut off from each other by the numerous fronts. Communications with the outside world broke down almost completely. The starving cities emptied as people moved into the countryside in their search for food."
Newly emerged Ukraine struggled for survival till November 1921. This turmoil resulted in the division of Ukraine between the Bolshevik Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia. Fragments, absorbed by Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia didn't get any kind of autonomy ever.
And only in the frame of the Soviet Union , newly emerged Nation - Ukraine was granted the Autonomy. The Ukrainian Soviet Republic was proclaimed as an integral part of the Soviet Union, created in 1922.
And Attention!
The same way newly emerged "Donetsk Krivorozsk Republic", with
the capital in Kharkov, historically Russian industrial hub of Russian Empire - Donbass, proclaimed in 1917 originally as part of Russian Federation! on the Demand of Lenin, it was also included in the new artificial construct of the Soviet Ukraine.
Such way Historically Russian Donbass became the part of the Soviet Ukraine
Moreover, the Northern Coastal land of Black Sea, with all these strategically important, jarbor9 ports, beautiful cities - Odessa, Kherson, Ochakov, Mariupol to name a few, which were founded, developed, and flourishing in the time of Russian Empire when Ukraine didn't exist yet, this strategically important Northern Coastal land of the Black Sea was also included in the Soviet Ukraine on the demand of Lenin!
In 1939 and 1945 Stalin included in the Soviet Ukraine the Western territories.
Crimea was annexed by Russia 240 years ago, when Ukraine didn't exist yet "The Ottoman Empire was defeated by Catherine the Great, Russia. Crimea was traded to Russia as part of the treaty provisions and was annexed in 1783. After two centuries of conflicts, the Russian fleet had destroyed the Ottoman navy and the Russian army had inflicted heavy defeats on the Ottoman land forces".
And there was NO Ukraine, it simply didn't exist.
There were 12 wars between Russia and Ottoman Empire, and each time Crimea and Northern Coastal land of Black Sea, which as a whole was marked on the map of Russian Empire as Taurida Governorate - for centuries it was recognized as an integral part of Russia, demonstrated increased Russia's power in the Black Sea areas and the territories of the Northern Coastal land.
Since 1783 Crimea was part of Russia, until Nikita Khrushchev, in 1954 decided to make a present of it to Ukrainian Soviet Republic - at time it was an internal transaction, could be seen as meaningless legally and politically, because Ukraine was an integral part of the Soviet Union".. and important! nobody ever cared about people of Crimea, nobody asked if they liked it if they wanted to become part of the Ukraine..
They did and held a vote such a majority said yes
I much prefer your account of the historic relationship between Ukraine and Russia to that provided by Putin in the Carlson interview, (which made it sound like there was virtually no difference between the two countries.) This failed to account for the difference between Ukrainian and Russian languages and Churches, which would normally require substantial time and separation to develop.
Their interest in Ukraine was not complex nor historical. Their interest in Ukraine was for one simple reason: energy. It’s why they made an immediate B line for all three major energy production facilities in Europe.
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very naive and surface level view point
@@viktorias63 ok, so you believe that the largest country in the World are fighting for more land mass with a virtually non existent GDP and an economy that barely meets the definition of “emerging?”
not far from the truth honestly
I wonder who hid their reply…
Seems like it has always been a battlefield.
Living next to Russia does not provide any other option.
Ukraine is located in the middle of everything. Of course our territories must be hell with all the wars we have in the world. Like, did we have a choice during WW2? They just needed to use our roads to get to their end point. That's if we talk in general about Ukraine in the world.
Now I finally understand. Heck if I was Russia I’d probably try to take control too before my enemies do.
Read about 1991 Soviet Union Referendum. In March 71% of Ukrainians voted to stay in the USSR, and despite that in August political leadership declared independence. The same happened in most former USSR republics: local leaders wanted unlimited power while people wanted to stay united in one big country.
Read where? In russian fairytales “history” textbook? It is all bullshit and fake history and propaganda! I’m from Czechia and almost every russian I know told me similar BS about CZ. How we wanted to stay in USSR, how people of Czechia miss the USSR and only currupt politics says otherwise… Well, we find it more than offensive because the TRUTH is! Except really small group of lunetics and politics paid by cremlin Czech people really really HATE russia and always did for all your empire of pure evil did to us. We are really glad USSR and russian influence in our country is over and this is the reason why Czech people help Ukraine so much. And I’m not speaking about our goverment which help a lot as well. I’m talking about projects where ordinary people donates like Dárek pro Putina where ordinary people raised hundreds and hundreds milions of CZ koruna. The same Clovek v Tisni to which I personaly send more than 50 000 CZK (more than 2000 EUR) and many others iniciatives. So Igor, stop spreading lies and fake russian “history”. There is no country that was enjoying the be part of USSR beside of russia and there is not a country that want to be under influence of the terrorist state (maybe except the Balarus) right now and only allies russian curuntly has are some shitholes like the russia itself like an Iran, North Korea, Kuba, Belarus, Nikaragua…
@@kotyzamarek "Read where?". Go to a library and find March 1991 newspapers (Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, UK....) about the result of the USSR Referendum.
saying "Ukraine formed USSR with Russia" sounds like Ukraine voluntarily joined USSR.
in fact Red Army occupied and set puppet government in Kharkov, exactly like they do now in Donetsk and Kherson.
and letter occupied rest of Ukraine including Kiev
Тогда уж красная армия оккупировала всю Россию! Это ж гражданская война была. И Украина тогда была неотъемлимой частью Российской Империи. Среди Малороссов красные тоже были, как и везде.
Yes, only 90% of the leadership of the Ukrainian Republic were Ukrainians ahaha
In 1922, South Bessarabia was part of Romania (7:42)
Ukraine was the most privileged republic compared to other republics of the former Soviet Union and was enlarged to the west with the help of the Russians on the lands of other peoples (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania). Learn history well.
Russia not only wants to control Ukraine, it controls already its new/old territories (Dotentsk, Luhansk, Herson, Zaporozhie). People oh those territories voted on Referendums for return back to Mother Russia. There is Russian rouble there in circulation which replaced Ukrainian Grivna. And children there are educated in Russian. Western Ukraine will return to Poland. Hi from USA 😁😁
Privileged? ....clown
The three famines organized by the Soviet communist authorities in in 1921-1923, 1932-1933, 1946-1947, which took the lives of 4 to 10 million Ukrainians, as well as mass forced deportations of Ukrainians to Siberia, as well as mass executions of Ukrainian elite are vivid proof of your words.
Throughout its history, Ukraine was at the intersection of civilizations and cultures: the Western world (Poland, Austria, Hungary), the Eastern world (Mongols, Tatars, Russia) and the Muslim world (Crimean Tatars and Turks). Ukraine has lost its independence many times due to agreements between the Eastern and Western worlds (Perpetual Peace between the Muscovite Kingdom and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1686, the Peace of Riga between the Soviet Union and the Republic of Poland in 1921) on the aggressive division of the territory of Ukraine between them.
Cossaks did not want to join russia, they rebelled to get independance and to get rid off srtfdom. And Ukraine was an independant country. In 1649 Zborivsky treaty was signed between Poland and Hetmanate. Ukraine was established in 3 regoins then
8:45 what made the person preparing the map to leave the borders of Kaliningrad oblast after 45 is a mystery to me.
Long live Ukraine.
Ukraine will get theirs Justice one day. And all of us will be free from tower. 🏳️⚧️ 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇺🇦🕊
Heil tsar putin
God! How are they brainwashing you... Hundreds of people who fled from Mariupol are screaming that Azov (who is acting on the orders of that same Zelensky) bombed and burned their houses, killed and tortured people. People truly hate him! Mutilated bodies of women with German fascist swastikas were found in bomb shelters! Azov, under the pretext of organizing green corridors, led people to be shot. Children, women, old people ... Russians, unarmed military prisoners on camera, were shot at the legs and their throats were cut! In Bucha, people were killed when Russian troops left from there! And they killed people with white bandages on their hands (a sign of civilians). And all this is video and photo evidence. You will never be shown this ... And the Russian people are crying! Weeps from the fact that we have always been taught that Ukraine and Russia are brothers. And in Ukraine there are people who love and want to go to Russia! We will gladly accept them! But this cannot be forgiven! Please wake up! You can not look at the situation only from one side! 😭😭😭
Bro you added a trans flag
@@Adam-cu3ue huh? thats a joke right?
Вот это насмешка - Азовцы и другие "арийцы" сражаются за права трансов. Вот это поворот для них, если они что то осознали хд
I think the more important question is. Is Europe now finally see why the US Government what to hold the region? I mean how's the economics now a days?
The phase "mother of rus cities" is believed to be a poor translation from the notes of the Byzantine Empire which were the main info source of the chronicle that mentioned this phrase. it should've been metropoly ("metropolis") not mater poli ("mother of cities").
This brief history of Ukraine is very simplified and doesn’t reflect a lot of sides of country’s history. For instance, it fails to mention the Kingdom of Rus and The Cossack Hetmanate State. Moreover, the Cossack uprising did not aim to unite with Moscow. Instead, its goal was to guarantee for Cossacks' the same rights as for polish nobilities.
Before reaching out to the Tsar of Moscow, the Cossacks proposed forming an economic and military alliance with the King of Sweden.
You missed or should I say under-stressed several events of the last forty years. Like the Russian navel bases in Crimea and the water supply issues that occured when Ukraine turned off the fresh water supply to them after Russia violated the treaty they signed a few years earlier.
Who cares? Crimea is Russia since 1783. Hi from USA
@@mishaknopkin2199 Who cares? so why aren't you eager to return Alaska to Russia then?
@@viktorias63 Banderovka, what are you going to do with Russian Crimea if somehow (in your wet dreams) you get it? Force Russian people to talk mova? Kill all "traitors" i.e. 98% of Crimea population who voted on Referendum in 2014 to go back to Russia after a short historical nonsense of 1991-2014 when Crimea turned out to be in Ukraine. Our America keeps Russian heritage of Alaska after the sale of "Russian America", but your Banderstan wants Crimea for nothing cancelling all Russian history and culture. 😂😂😂😂
@@mishaknopkin2199 And before that? and after 1954?
@@mishaknopkin2199 And, Kalingrad was German for centuries. Stop trying to defend Russian barbaric invaders. Hi from the USA.
You forgot to mention the Cossack Hetmanate (1649-1764) and Galician-Volyn principality (1199-1349). You also didn't mention the Ukrainian Insurgent Army which played a huge role in WW2.
The "insurgent army" ...yeah probably don't want to mention the original name of that. I won't judge the dead for they did what they had to do but for anyone that thinks having to pick between USSR and Nazi Germany was glorious - no a lot of people ended up stateless all over the world or sent to camps waiting for years after the war. Anyway, my message is not directed at you purely but war tourists and others like the US and Canadian pro-Kurdish "fighters" in the Syria and Iraq. Good intentions perhaps...
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - Unknown source (some time in the past)
Attributed to George Santayana
In the Russian Empire, there were regions in which severe famine occurred at intervals of 20-25 years due to unfavorable climatic conditions. In 1891, due to severe drought, famine swept the Middle Volga region and the southern Urals. The next severe famine in Russia occurred in 1921. The cause of famine, in addition to drought, was the civil war in Russia in 1918-1919 and the intervention of 14 states in Russia in 1918-1920. During the war, food was needed for the newly created Red Army and the workers who left the villages for factories. And in May of the 21st year, Lenin appealed to the international community to help the hungry. There was no hunger as such yet, but it was clear that there would be one. This, by the way, is a difference from previous holodomors. And, of course, the American ARA Committee provided a lot of help here. This is exactly the case when the Americans helped a lot to cope with this famine. They spent 72 million dollars on the elimination of famine in the USSR. Approximately it is necessary to multiply by 20-25 - this is one and a half billion current dollars. Moreover, this is gratuitous assistance. Russia's costs were 13 million dollars. In 1922, the Bolsheviks had to forcibly withdraw these values. The total amount amounted to about 2 and a half billion gold rubles, that is, the famine was already over by that time. Part of this money went to eliminate hunger, the rest to restore the economy. In addition to American and other foreign cells, and assistance was provided, for example, by trade unions in England, the Swedish Red Cross, and the German Red Cross. The American Quaker Society has helped a lot - it is a religious and Christian direction.
In 1932-1933, in addition to the Ukrainian SSR, it also covered vast territories, mainly steppe regions that were part of Russia, including the Kazakh ASSR, the regions of the Central Black Earth region, the North Caucasus, the Urals, the Volga Region, the Southern Urals, and Southern Siberia. I think that the Holodomor, which Ukraine and other countries portray as genocide of the Ukrainian population, in reality has other causes - low labor productivity, as well as difficult climatic conditions that led to regular crop failures. The creation of collective farms in villages and the construction of industrial enterprises in cities continued. From 1928 to 1932, the urban population of the USSR increased by almost 13 million people.
They also lie to us that the reason for the Holodomor was that the state wiped out grain on collective farms. That grain exports grew strongly in the second half of 1932 and in the first half of 1933. Is it so? Grain harvesting in 1932/33 amounted to 18.5 million tons. And in 1931 there were 22.8 million tons. In 1934, 22.7 million tons were produced. And what is the grain export by year? 1930 - 4.7million tons; 1931 - 5.1 million tons; 1932 - 1.7 million tons; 1933 - 1.6 million tons; 1934 - 0.7 million tons; 1935 - 1.5 million tons. As you can see, there was no increase in grain exports in 1932 and 1333, on the contrary, there was a sharp reduction in exports. Moreover, since 01.01.1933, exports have fallen to a minimum, and since 04/01/1933, exports have been stopped altogether.
Famine in 1932-1933 was also in the USA, France, Germany, Spain and Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland (on the territory of Western Ukraine).
The first to speak about deliberate actions in the USSR against Ukraine was the adviser to the Prime Minister of England, Jones, who was a consultant to the British government on industrialization in the USSR, who from the 30th to the 33rd year traveled mainly to Southern Ukraine, where British companies supplied their products for industrialization. With his help, a press campaign was organized to exaggerate this hunger.
One of the two main causes of the famine of 1946-1947 was the consequences of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the huge material and human losses suffered by the USSR during this war. From the message of the Extraordinary State Commission for the Establishment and Investigation of the Atrocities of the Nazi invaders. The Nazi invaders completely or partially destroyed and burned 1,710 cities and more than 70 thousand villages and villages, 1.5 million buildings and structures were completely or partially destroyed. Out of 2,567 thousand . 1,209 thousand houses were destroyed and destroyed in the cities of the USSR that were under occupation, and in terms of the size of the living area, this number of houses amounted to over 50% of the total urban living area of these cities. Of the 12 million residential buildings of the rural population of the regions of the USSR that were under occupation, 3.5 million residential buildings were destroyed and destroyed by the German occupiers. About 25 million people lost their homes. 31,850 industrial enterprises were destroyed and destroyed (of which machine-building and metallurgical enterprises played a particularly important role, providing up to 60% of the gross pre-war product). 4,100 railway stations, 6,000 hospitals, 33,000 polyclinics, 82,000 primary and secondary schools, etc. No less material damage was caused to the agriculture of the USSR. In the occupied territory of the USSR, 876 state farms, 2,890 MTS, 98,000 collective farms were completely or partially destroyed and looted; 7 million horses were destroyed or stolen by the occupiers out of a total of 11.6 million horses that were in these areas before the occupation; 17 million heads of cattle were exterminated out of a total of 31 million heads; 20 million were destroyed. heads of pigs out of a total of 23.6 million heads; 27 million were exterminated. sheep and goats out of a total of 43 million heads located in the areas of the USSR that were under occupation. 137 thousand tractors, 49 thousand combines, 46 thousand grain tractor seeders, etc. were destroyed or stolen by the occupiers. 285 thousand livestock buildings belonging to collective farms were destroyed and destroyed. The material damage caused to the peoples of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany is covered to a negligible extent by the relocation of industrial equipment from Germany to the USSR in the order of reparation. The cost of this equipment is only 0.6% of the amount of "direct property losses" only.
The second reason for the famine was the drought in the summer of 1946.
A sentence explaining the deportation of the Tartars of Crimea in WW2 & the date descendants were allowed to return from exile (1990's) was the omission i noticed (English). Of course a population whose parents & gparents came since ww2 are going to tend to sympathise with Russia but the Crimean Tartars genocided by Stalin can't vote.
Сталин спас крымских татар депортировав их.
Не исключено ,что все они были бы убиты разъяренным населением после освобождения Крыма. Особенно вернувшийся с войны мужчинами.
99% мужчин крымских татар работали на нацистов. В том числе помогали и самостоятельно организовывали геноцид народов, проживающих в Крыму.
@@user-nu7fl2dz5q Do you know that USSR was the first who wanted to cooperate (and cooperated) with Germany and even started WW2 together. So do not be a hypocrite.
Crimean Tatars voted on 2014 Referendum mostly for return to Russia. Hi from USA.
Uhhh Genocided
Ohhh come it was deportation sure its bad but they werent killed were they ?
@@miroslavdusin4325
Prvý spojenec nacistického Nemecka bolo fašistické Poľsko.
Vojnovú zmluvu proti ZSSR podpísal Pilsudski a Hitler už v roku 1934, postupne bol celý kolektívny západ spojencom nacistického Nemecka, potvrdil to kolektívny západ v Mníchove 1938, schválili Hitlerov plán. ,,Main Kampf " a vyzbrojili nacistické Nemecko ČSR zbraňami a darovali ČSR zbrojovky nacistickemu Nemecku .
Dohoda o neutočení podpísaná Molotovom & Ribentrop bola posledná so všetkých ktoré Nemeco uzavrelo.
Takže tak pokrytec.
many historical things are left out in the video, the Varangian Rus settled in Veliky Novgorod in 862 under the leadership of Rurik, the expansion of the Russian Empire, and on and on...
That would take hours long videos
@@philodonoghue3062 Agree, but you can't skip the beginning of the story.
@@quitomav Good point. Just because like you, I was already aware of the Varangian/Viking penetration down the major rivers, and expansion beyond Muscovy etc, the introduction could have usefully summarised those foundational historical facts. Personally I try to follow Occam’s Razor, when teaching.
Veliky Novgorod in 859; Kyiv in 482 year were founded. More listen russian propaganda 🤡
@@m.b.4884 Ты длбб? Какой нах 482г?
Распоряжение первого секретаря КПУ Щербицкого основан? ДБ!
Very simplified. The territory of Ukraine that became part of the USSR was much larger, including Kuban, which was later exchanged for Crimea. Also, Ukraine was the largest supplier of gas to Europe, and has a lot of oil. This is one of the reasons for Moscow's attack, because it got out of its control.
Hahahahaha, what a pile of garbage.
Stop lying about the Kuban! Kuban has never been a part of Ukraine, and then there was no Ukraine as such!
7:15, a completely wrong map of post-revolution Ukrainian Republic.
The western part of shown Ukraine were Polish territories(which were captured in 1939), and the rest wasn't under the control of the "Green army" known as "Makhnovists", actually post-revolution Ukraine were located in the Kharkov's governorate(Which in the 19th century was called "Ukrainian governorate").
It is worth adding that the Cossacks entered into military alliances with the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate and the Swedish kingdom in their struggle for independence, and not only with the Moscow kingdom. The name Russia from the word Rus was stolen by Peter the Great to create an empire. And Crimea is Ukraine. This video does not reflect the full history of Ukraine, it is too one-sided and untrue.
Ok slow down, wait a second...so Vikings sailed from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea? I want to see a whole video on how that works!
there are a lot of rivers in the area, and a lot of the boats could be taken up and walked short distances to other parts of rivers.
The Vikings went all over the place in Europe. I thought they had only wreaked havoc in the Baltic and North seas and the English Channel areas but found out later that I was WAY off.
@@HowardRoark5150 They we’re in the US way before Columbus
@@Terk131 Some say Columbus never even made it to the United States😂
They made it to Paris
Being Russian, it’s so funny to listen to English-speaking bloggers about the history of Russia)))
The history of Russia begins in the north from Staraya Ladoga in 862 (360 years before the appearance of Kyiv!)
Kyiv and Kievan Rus were formed as a union of Russian principalities!!! there has never been a single word about Ukraine; it has always been Russian lands since the times of Byzantium. Ukraine as a concept appeared thanks to the USSR!!!! If you are interested in the history of Russia, why not learn about it from the Russians themselves. and not from Western interpreters of history,
they interpret it as it suits them or as they were taught...
If the European countries don’t get their fingers out and send some real meaningful help to the brave Ukrainian people it’s going to be a very brief history indeed.
EU countries contributions are currently double that of the USA!
4:12 The Cossacks never supported the Moscow tsar. On the contrary, as a registered army, they often went to war in Moscow.
And on the picture is no cossak by some kind of moskovian "oprychnyk"
4:34 The Pereyaslav agreement was one of many military alliances concluded by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. She was not special. It is known only because it has been promoted by Russian for centuries. After Khmelnytsky, there were more than 70 years of Cossack wars with Muscovy.
7:23 show on the map Crimea as a part of Ukraine, or if this map reflects the objective situation at the moment, and not modern borders, then show Kuban - which at that short time joined the UPR
9:57 Clarification for better understanding: Crimea was not a gift. Crimea and the Crimean people who lived there had close historical relations with mainland Ukraine and were globally part of the economic system of southern Ukraine.
14:11 russia not only sponsored war in 2014 by money but invaded Donbas with its troops
17:16 Most of the historical connections that russia imagine are fictional. Most russians are descendants not of Slavs (like Ukrainians) but of Finno-Ugric groups. By successfully colonizing nations and imposing its ideology on them, Russia still remains an non-modern empire. In our time, this must end by its collapse.
PS: It is not very correct to mark Kyiv with three tents, a thousand years ago it was one of the 5 largest cities in Europe with stone churches. For example Sophia of Kyiv, which has survived to this day.
So, you are saying that Crimeans who are predominantly Russians by ethnicity and totally russian-speakers have had closer ties with Ukraine than with Russia? That's a funny statement:)
And your statement about the origin of Russians and Ukraineans absolutely contradicts with science. As for the origin of the nationalities, according to Y-chromosome researches the are two local maximums of ancient Slavic haplogroups located in Southern Poland and Central/Southern-West Russia. Yes, there was an intermixion with "Finnish"- Uralic but mostly Baltic peoples in Russia, just like with Dinarics-Balkanians in Ukraine, but it was a two-way road, for example Erzya (Mordva) people are probably no less Slavic by origin then Ukrainians.
@@algo8082 And where and when did the Russians come to Crimea?
They have only been there for the last 100-150 years. After the mass genocide and deportation of the Crimean Tatars. Those russian speakers who are there are typical occupiers.
Regarding the close ties: you take into consideration only the last 100 years, ignoring 1000 years of cooperation between the regions of mainland Ukraine and Crimea.
Regarding genes: all people in the northern hemisphere are 98.8% genetically similar, but this does not negate the issue of culture and spiritual tradition that distinguishes Slavs and Finno-Ugric people.
Russian culture showed its artificiality and inability to teach the united Finno-Ugric tribes that it is bad to rob, steal, rape and kill. Therefore, it is not a question of genes, but of cultural evolution, which the so-called russia has not undergone
@@RomanKushnir And Ukrainians forms the majority in Odessa region - former Bujak region of the Ottoman Empire. Genocide or deportation? Maybe it's just a colonization of sparsely inhabited lands like in America? And btw Crimean Tatars weren't innocent lambs through all their history.
This is like saying the Roman Empire has a collective hold on the collective imagination of the Romanian people. Kyivan Rus is not the root of the Russian people, it was not important to the birth of Russia and there does not exist an 1000 year connection between Russia and Kyivan Rus.
Kyivan Rus was an old and glorious piece of history that Muscovite vassals of the Mongolian horde believed was a convenient way of glorifying themselves and laying claim to territory they had no right to.
BS. Moscow is 3rd Rome. Hight from USA.
"Bread basket of USSR" term is very over exaggerated. According to widely available statistics, Ukraine's average wheat production per year was about 1/3 of the wheat production of RSFSR, the population of Ukraine was also around 1/3 of RSFSR, so Ukraine was self-sufficient but not the "Bread Basket". Some people mention that 50% of Ukrainian territory is covered with super fertile black soil, those guys should know that Russia has 5x times more black soil area than Ukraine
Except Russia doesn't farm it. It's basically a gas station with nukes and the army that is most skilled at killing and raping civilians. At least the whole world sees it now.
@@moni1383 Ukraine takes that title, it's an expert at raping and killing if you look at Wołyń.
The borders have.been shifting back and forth for centuries
The fact remains that Crimea has always been part of Russia
I was expecting to see a well-made research, but instead it was a video with many skipped essential parts of Ukrainian history,
Russia not only wants to control Ukraine, it controls already its new/old territories (Dotentsk, Luhansk, Herson, Zaporozhie). People oh those territories voted on Referendums for return back to Mother Russia. There is Russian rouble there in circulation which replaced Ukrainian Grivna. And children there are educated in Russian. Western Ukraine will return to Poland. Hi from USA 😁😁
@@mishaknopkin2199 misha jdy nakhyr
@@y.gromyk idu, idu vmeste s territoriyami. Ya kstati "Ukrainez" v Amerike iz Odessy. Skoro i moya Odessa ujdjot v Rossiju.
If I was to make a BRIEF video about Ukraine history, I would spend most of the time on key points showing formation of the nation (if it ever existed as such separately from Russians). Rulers, culture, language, territory emergence (as a separate nation) and expansion. There is no point in showing 20th century history in such detail (half of the video). There should be a specific message too, supported by facts throughout, making the video consistent. Otherwise, you should have merely shown the borders of an independent country called Ukraine dynamics (started after the Bolsheviks' revolution) or who this land was under throughout the history (facts), without going into political controversies. This kind of video would not take more than 10-15 minutes with all the details.
Agreed
Surely it could be done well enough. Until a few months ago I've never heard official reorganization for anything Brest-Livotsk generated as it was a Central Powers Treaty. All the short lived late-WWI and Russian Civil War era states which Austria-Hungary or Germany recognized on the Eastern front along with mobile forces like the Czech legion all had their own reasons for fighting the Bolsheviks. A genuine mutiny occurred in 1917 within the Tsarist Army and the Entente were in either denial or had a total lack of intel when the February Revolution came. I spent most of my former-USSR focus in Central Asia but you can't start to understand the entire entity without being as dispassionate as possible. Well that's not likely, but in the last 5-6 months I have seen multiple "unorthodox" readings of some united anti-communist front between Whites, Blacks and Greens or something impossible like that.
And while spending half the vid on the 20th century, it never mentions that, for all its "dignity", the "Maidan" revolution was a CIA / Neo-Naughties illegal coup. That is what in turn led to what is callously called here, "a pro-Russian uprising in Eastern Ukraine, which Russia is suspected of sponsoring [By whom? Look up "Jacques Baud, NATO"] and which has been termed as an invasion [by whom?] saw fighting begin in the Donbas region, which continues at present. [...] Also in 2014, Russia annexed Crimea, which had been part of Ukraine since 1954 [and before then???] The reasons for this are complex". Like over 90% of the population of Crimea being ethnic Russian and feeling either Russian or Russian-Ukranian and very close to Russia? And voting in a referendum in 2014 to join Russia? Complex like that?
Clear propaganda. Which is why they needed to spend all that time in the 20th century. NATO only mentioned in passing? Steer clear of this. Propaganda 100%.👎
Thank you for a great video!
"In 2016 in Kiev, local people, university professors and intellectuals led me to see Ukrainian historical heroes whose monuments were undeniably beautifully built - Cyril and Methodius, Gregory Tsamblak, Princess Olga, Cyprian and Key. That, they said, was Cyril and Methodius, who... And this is Camblack who... (Tsamblak is a Bulgarian born in Tarnovo, later became Metropolitan of Kiev). See they say and point to me Cyprian, this is the personality that.. (Cyprian is a Bulgarian born in Tarnovo, later Metropolitan and Patriarch of Kiev, Lithuania and all Russia). Then they point to me Princess Olga, who is in fact a granddaughter of Prince Boris I (Barush Kagan, Altai Bars). I tell them, this is very good, even it's wonderful, but they are all Bulgarians. At first they don't understand me, it's like they didn't hear me... One of the locals tells me: "But how will Olga be Bulgarian when she was born in Pskov? " I answered him: "In 890, when Olga was born, there was no city of Pskov, but Pliskov (Pliska), as her birth is clearly recorded in all historical archives of that era. Pskov was founded in 903. Of course, if you insist that Olga was born in the empty field, where this city, which you claim was born, was built 13 years later, I would not want to argue with you. They also took me to a monumental monument where Kiev's founder stands majestically. The city bears his name today. But this, I say, is Ki Shambat, the younger brother of Kubrat Khan (Kurt Khan, Kurtbat - Wolf, mother of the Ashina clan, the Wolf). Kiev was founded by Shambatas and in all chronicles, your city is recorded with the name Shambatas (Sambatas), including by Procopius Caesar, a direct witness to the age and a great historian. The story is clear and... Bulgarian, I tell them. "
Stoyan Dinkov
Source:
"Guests of White Sweet"
Thank you for helping me understand what was completely missing from my school years.
Andrew - this didn’t help you to understand the history of Ukraine. This video is shockingly inaccurate and skips centuries of history relevant to todays Russian war on Ukraine. Starting with maps, through to false information about Cossack’s uprisings.. Those were never to join Muscovy (called here Russia) although the last uprising had - only partially - such result. Uprisings were to gain recognition of Kossack aristocracy - as equal to the one of Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth - and within it, and to stop Catholicism spreading and being privileged in their lands. After multiple uprisings - Chmielnicky (Kossack leader) asked Muscovites (Russians) for help - what ended with partition of Ukrainian lands between PL-LIT Commonwealth and Russia.
That partition has consequences till this day - in what language people speak, and also up until recent Russian invasion - the level of self identity as Ukrainians - being strong where Commonwealth once stood, and not so in the east of the country. The previous division is still visible for example in nova days electoral results.
The video instead talks a lot about Crimean war - which may be important to UK coz of its involvement but far less for understanding Ukraine..
As a Canadian the mistake people always make here when they see a bear 🐻, it’s always strikingly beautiful and Friendly looking, compared to when you see a Mountain Lion often they take the initiative and lunge a bear may approach cautiously or none nonchalantly walk away but if you poke it it can kill with a single punch.
That's what many including Russia itself thought when they tried to take the capital of Ukraine. The failure to overthrow the Ukranian gov't in quick succession has proven the Russian military incompetent of such a feat. It's interesting people scrutinize Ukraine (a sovereign nation with its own free will) for improving relations with NATO when Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea before any of the current events even went down. If Russia can take Crimea under the context that the people there speak Russian, then the U.S might as well hand Texas to Mexico with all the Spanish speakers there. The Ukranian people have their own culture, they are their own people, Russia DOES NOT have the right to claim its land and its identity. There's a reason the Ukranian people overthrew their pro-Russian president at that time with protests and riots! Aside from the political leaders in the pro Russian areas in Ukraine, I would not look pass the idea that the regular people there could've cared less about calling themselves a part of Russia instead of Ukraine too. What precedent does it set when a larger country can just start taking land from a smaller?
You don't consider invading another country and taking their land as poking? Ukraine was willing to negotiate and dissolve entertaining NATO but guess what Putin chose to do? Invade the entire country under false nonfactual basis of "De-nazifying"" the country with ZERO concrete evidence to back up that claim. Innocent people dead from both sides, women and children raped and murdered. It's honestly sad what the state of the world is in. Russia did have a choice, look at the Cuban missile crises. Cuba had Russian military bases on it for years after that incident...did the U.S invade it? no, and things have been working out well for both countries peace wise with Cuba's sovereignty being respected. Are you saying the U.S would've been justified to invade Cuba and call it a U.S state when Russia first had placed a military base there? I doubt you would be saying that.
@@bradleywelch9290 Everything you write would look like the truth if Ukraine were a mono-ethnic state and the entire territory would be inhabited by one people - Ukrainians, but the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine are historically and ethnically Russian territories, which, after the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolshevik leader Lenin irresponsibly included in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic with a simple stroke of the pen. Naturally, nobody asked the peoples' consent to this and no referendums were held. All subsequent referendums on the preservation of the USSR (citizens overwhelmingly approved the preservation of the country), followed 2 years later by a referendum on the independence of individual republics, did not give the people an understanding of the prospects for economic and political separation, which was manipulatively lobbied by the national elites of the republics. All peoples in the USSR lived in friendship and a false sense of its inviolability in the future, and therefore did not attach much importance to such political acts. This is how modern Ukraine was hastily tailored. The corrupt political elite, in fact the bandits and feudal lords of Ukraine, have brought the country with their venality to the point that it has become a tasty morsel for international political, financial and economic intriguers. We are now reaping the fruits of this betrayal.
@@Conssend That's interesting to know. My take on this however, is that he people today are understanding of the prospects for economic and political separation now. That's the main point. They the people have claimed their culture and identity and all modern nations have acknowledged such, including Russia prior to the invasion of Crimea several years ago. Even before the war started in the Donbass many years ago, Russia wasn't claiming those areas to be part of Russia or their own autonomous regions at all. They recognized all those lands as Ukrainian territory as a whole.
@@bradleywelch9290 То есть вы хотите сказать, что все, что произошло в 2014 году, было инспирировано Россией, а жители Востока Донбасса и Крыма были вовлечены в инцидент против их воли? Референдумы были фейковые, а народ в Крыму - жертва путинского произвола?
@@bradleywelch9290 "Even before the war in the Donbass began many years ago, Russia did not at all claim that these territories were part of Russia"
You answered yourself that "why did Russia come to Ukraine and put everything in order." The reason is that the western part of Ukraine excluded the connection of the eastern side. And they decided to build such regions as Donbas and Crimea. Crimea did not work out because the Russian fleet was there. But the Donbass began to destroy and, unlike Serbian Kosovo, neither the Western "enlightened" countries, nor NATO considered that this was a war crime. And silently (probably rejoicing at this) they watched what Russia would do? They laughed at the negotiation process, began to wind up sanctions. Perhaps it was already then a plan to start a world third in order to destroy Russia?
Thanks!
This helps me realise why the Chinese see the war in Ukraine as a fight between neighbours over where the garden fence is placed.
agreed!
one detail. the sex-offender is Western Ukraine who was taken in USSR in 1945. They tried to move the fence to East to rape Russians to be Ukrainians and speak only Mova. Hi from USA.
You lump all Chinese together? The fight (attack of the Russian Federation on Ukraine) is far more complex over where the fence is. It is about imperialism, expansionism , historical revisionism and genocide.-- Perhaps you would prefer to refer to it as a "conflict"?
For goodness sake, people. It is titled A Brief History of Ukraine. Brief means that some things will be left out. This video does not purport to be the COMPLETE history of Ukraine.
i would agree, but it's so brief that it's misleading. E.g. Ukraine have not joined USSR. Red Army set puppet government in Kharkov and later occupied rest of Ukraine, pushed Ukrainian government out of Kiev. But in the video it sounds like Ukraine has joined voluntarily. While in fact it was simply occupied by Lenin.
Agree but the video makes it sound as if Russia has preexisting claims to Ukraine and glosses over the actual historical truths.
“Kievan Rus” is an academic term used by historians. There are similar terms “Vladimir Rus” or “Novgorod Rus” to refer to the political entity led by the prince of the city in the name. People living at that time didn’t use this term and didn’t call themselves “Kievan Rus”, they used the term “Rus”.
Yeah. And Novgorodian Rus was before Kievan Rus.
@@omoikaneru And Politicians in Kiev Junta say now that King Vladimir in 900's wanted Kievan Rus to join European Union. Hi from USA.😁😁
And Politicians in Kiev Junta say now that King Vladimir in 900's wanted Kievan Rus to join European Union. Hi from USA.😁😁
@@mishaknopkin2199 Lmao more russians who don't want to live in russia but leave for evil NATO countries and the USA, pathetic
@@sunnyday1417 I am American for 31 years. I was invited to MIT in 1985. Already as Doctor of Sciences in USSR before 30 years old (just two cases in history of Soviet Space Programs).
An example and opinion (fact)
You need a good water source as there is not one there. You can go to the bay, or Romania.
Even if you work with Russia, the deal will be sabotaged by him feeling obigation to sabotage it in someway Even if you only take part and let him run petrol all day. Even if it is better for them you can't trust.
You need to have on secure yourself.
The line would be long and running through other places which leaves you vulnerable. It would be a massive undertaking
Though huge for mining but you need to protect your stuff.
Europe still knows very little about the history of Ukraine.
During the 300 years of occupation, russia was able to impose its vision.
In fact, Ukraine has constantly fought for its independence and has always had a separate culture, language and history.
That does not explain that they had separate culture. Look where the Rus came from already and most of the recent history of annexation but only 30 years independent in modern days.
@@dennythedavinchi3832
Terribly erroneous view, which I hope is explained by the lack of knowledge about the history of the region.
History of Ukraine:
-Trypillia culture
-Scythia
-Sarmatia
-Slavs (russia is mainly Finno-Ugric tribes)
-Kievan Rus (Moscow is a very distant abandoned suburb)
-The Rus' principality is a part of the Commonwealth
-Hetmanate - an independent state of the Cossacks
-(Occupation by the Russian Empire)
-Ukrainian People's Republic and Western Ukrainian People's Republic
-(Occupation by the Russian Empire)
-Independent Ukraine
More than 1,000 years of state formation is quite different from the history of Moskovian State (russia). Now is only the time to return to historical authenticity.
But the global difference is even deeper - the Ukrainians are a Slavic tribe of settled farmers who have lived on their land for centuries. And the russians (this is the name of the Finno-Ugric tribes - Chudi, Vespa, Moksha, Merya, etc.) are nomads. Therefore, it is not surprising that their army eats dogs, rapes and steals everything they can see.
Europe has long been deceived by the mysterious "russian spirit", but in reality it is nothing more than a musty smell from the savagery of cavemen. I understand how categorical it sounds, but this opinion is shared by all who at least once had a common border with the so-called russia.
What were your achievements during "the 300 years of occupation"? While a part of the Russian Empire, Poland produced world-renowned Marie Curie and Frederick Chopin, among others. Tadeo Kosciuszko fought for freedom in America, where he became close to Thomas Jefferson (actually, named him an executor of his Will & Testament, in which he asked for his sizable assets to be used to buy freedom to as many Blacks as possible).
The huge period of cooperation of newly founded Moscow with Mongols is missed in the video. Actually Moscow was a headquarter of Mongol's power in the region. The collection of taxes from independent cities, including Kyiv, Novgorod, Pskov as well as military support for further expansion of the Orde to West and North were the main functions of Moscow. Also, just before Mongol invasion Kyiv was attacked and heavily destroyed by the army of Bogolubsky,, another member of Moscow-Mongol alliance . So from the very beginning of its existence Moscow was a real enemy of Kyiv Rus as well as of future Ukraine that has been formed around Kyiv.
Они сотрудничали? Как можно назвать сотрудничеством сбор дани с княжеств? Если бы они не платили дань, их города были бы сожжены, разграбленны и люди были бы убиты.
The only alliance in this regard, was against Polish expansionism. You guys still suing present day Mongolia for the conquests of Genghis Khan, then?
@@du_hast_mich9712 Иван Калита - был главным коллаборантом, собирал дань для орды с других княжеств. Поэтому и прозван Калита (кошелек). Очевидно, что не все что собирал с других княжеств, отдавал хану. На удержанных деньгах расширял московское княжество скупая земли, строил "москву" (при нем начали появляться первые каменные сооружения в москве). Калита был стукачем, стучал и привлекал ордынское войско против соседних княжеств. Под "крышей" орды, создал более благоприятный "бизнес климат" (на другие княжества нажучивал орду), тем самым создавая условия и стимулы "бизнесу, интеллигенции и Церкви переместиться именно в спокойное московское княжество. То есть имел слегка мерзопакостные черты, был так сказать в авангарде по сотрудничеству с оккупационными силами. По маме, был пра-пра-правнуком Чингизхана (мать Мария Глебовна Белозерская была дочью хана христианина Сартака, сына Батыя и правнука Чингизхана).
Kievan Rus never existed. Read the textbooks carefully! The term "Kievan Rus" is a time period that historians use in speech to denote the moment when the capital was in Kiev. The capital in Russia often moved from one city to another: Novgorod, Kiev, Moscow.
And never read Ukrainian textbooks over the past 20 years - there is a lot of propaganda and distortions.
On March 10, 1945, the capital of Japan was subjected to a carpet bombing conducted by the US Air Force.
Several hundred tons of bombs and napalm were dropped on Tokyo, killing at least 80,000 residents, most of whom were civilians.
❤🇺🇦🙏prayers for all Ukrainians
I find it amazing that Putin constantly tells us that Russia is strong while being so terrified of freedom that he’s ordered an invasion of the Ukraine !
Just Ukraine. "The" is no needed.
You support Russia?
I support Ukraine from the Keivan Rus'
@@kayleightucker6510 no I do not support Russia I hope Ukraine kicks their collective arses
@@vexillonerd True, but it was the acceptable form up until the 1990's and it takes time to change habits. Older people still think it sounds funny without the "the". It comes from Soviet customs and not at all just an American idea. I find myself doing it, as well.
Comparing Ukraine with Cuba is ludicrous, the Ukrainians willfully gave up their nuclear weapons and the US had no motivation for arming them with missiles. Not one of the better documentaries on this subject.
You are misinformed. Ukraine is exactly the same situation to Russia that was Cuba to US, just closer and in bigger scale. It's not about giving up the nukes. In 2008 Bucharest convention NATO declared that one of it's main goals in the future is having Ukraine in the alliance. Weeks before the war started Ukraine's president wanted to revoke the non-nuclear status of Ukraine, meaning accepting NATO nuclear weapons in his territory. Russia couldn't let her biggest enemy to have nukes so close to the border pointing at her and attacked. If you think it was overreaction just read about the Cuban crisis in 62, The only reason the US didn't start nuclear war then was their disadvantageous position at striking first.
@Guy DeGreg Ukrainians does not own those nuclear weapons, it was owned by Russia. No reason why not gave up since Ukraine does not have the launching codes. Research first for you to have better understanding.
@@pagongturtle2217 I understand plenty but you missed a lot and you don't even understand the argument, go sit at the kiddy table if you can't keep up with the conversation.
@@guydegregg6869" the Ukrainians willfully gave up their nuclear weapons"
Answer: Ukrainians does not own those nuclear weapons, it was owned by Russia. No reason why not gave up since Ukraine does not have the launching codes. Research first for you to have better understanding.
Read properly "give up their nuclear weapons" I repeat to make it clear for you slow brain, those nuclear weapons is not owned by Ukrainians, got it?
Before pretending that you understand plenty be sure that you get the correct information.
Are you trying to deny your mistake? Pathetic lol
@@guydegregg6869 Lol and now he is quite. Probably cannot keep up with a kid in the conversation.
It's all about Crimea, Svastopol and Russia's warm water ports, and a buffer state between Russia and Western Europe.
Very pro western in its perspective, but overall a relatively good summarization of the history of the relationship between these two countries
Anthem of the USSR starts with words:
The indestructible union of free republics was united forever by Great Rus'
In this video are not mentioned at all the teritories stolen by USSR/Ukraine from Romania (northern Bucovina, southern Basarabia (Bugeac) and historical Maramures).
Do not worry, it will return to Romania.