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kitesandtrainsandcats
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03 Mar 2022, 8:16 pm

Happened across the article linked below.
But first, I went to find out about the author.
And who he is, where he is from, and what he has done, turn out to be intimately relevant to the topic.
:arrow: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/serhii-plokhii
:arrow: https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educa ... erhii-1957

The article;

Vladimir Putin’s war is banishing for good the outdated myth that Ukrainians and Russians are the same

The invasion in general and the assault on Kyiv in particular are strengthening the Ukrainian people’s sense of identity and unity

By Serhii Plokhy 3 March 2022 • 1:41pm

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 ... -russians/

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... That 19th century understanding of history has been at the core of Putin’s claim about the existence of one Russian people that includes the Russians and Ukrainians. It faces its final death now in the skies of Kyiv. ...


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... Far from inspiring gratitude for ostensible “fraternal assistance,” the current war is helping to destroy a number of Russian imperial and Soviet myths. ...


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03 Mar 2022, 8:21 pm

Russia has been promoting this myth since the era of the Russian Empire, that the people they were subjugating in the lands they had taken from Poland had no distinct identity of their own.

It's not that those peoples were all ethnically Polish, instead that the Rus/Ruthenians who had been under Lithuanian and later Polish rule had developed a distinct national identity separate from that of the Rus who had lived under the Russian state centred around Moscow.


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