Volodymyr Kukharenko - Short History of Russian Imperialism - The Russian Empire: Prison of Nations.
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Volodymyr Kukharenko helps translation companies to automate their business and project management. But he also uses his presence on social media to education about Russia's imperial history, geoncides and endless wars.
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Volodymyr Kukharenko: "Why are Ukrainian CEOs and business owners like me writing about war and the history of relations with Russia instead of concentrating on our job? No, it’s not fun at all. And no one pays us, we may earn much more than any troll farmer may offer if we just switch to business. In fact, we get distracted from our businesses and might earn less because of that. So why do we write this seemingly not business-related stuff?
First, it IS business-related. There are lots of ways the war changes the business. Even if you are lucky and your farm or office does not get destroyed by a bomb, and your clients have not run away. Because you understand it might still happen if history goes the wrong way. You cannot make strategic planning if you know that your army is holding the frontlines for you. Your team is stressed with the war too, and it does have an impact on their productivity and motivation. And, in winter, you have to manage power cuts that happen because your infrastructure is getting bombed. And of course, you still can get into the trenches. With all of this, you cannot stay impartial and feel you have to do something.
And what can I do, as a small business owner, still remaining in the office? I may donate some of the profits to the army, but it does not feel enough. So we feel we need to tell our foreign colleagues what’s happening here, explain why it is happening, and oppose Kremlin narratives that are spread consciously or even unconsciously.
I dream about the day when I can get back to writing purely about the business and concentrate on business strategies as much as I want. But that is possible only when all the land of Ukraine gets liberated."
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I've spent a lot of time in Ukraine and Russia over the 30 years I have lived in "the region"..and have many good friends there. I was in Gdansk in 88, Berlin, Prague and Bucharest in 89, Moscow in 2012, on the Maidan in 2014 and Minsk in 2020. When I left Moscow in 2012 after the demonstrations there, I came away with the feeling that it was the last chance for Russia/Russians to change how they viewed themselves and indeed their place in the world...to change their course for the future...to collectively make or demand the changes needed to become part of the greater progressive, rule of law based society of nations. To embrace the values and do the work required to be a part of such a collective of nations. They are a nation, and nation of people who see the life and everything that happens to them as coming at them rather than from them. I have never encountered a nation of people so unable and unwilling to be accountable for their own lives...it's a nation of pathological victimhood and apathy...and even worse of almost complete lack of empathy or understanding of community. Putin is a symptom of the disease that is Russian mentality. And I'm afraid we will always be asking the question "What to do about Russia". Pretty much everyone in this part of the world knows this. I hope that Europe and the "West" does not lose sight of what is being fought for in Ukraine.
I get the impression that they are.
The west is very clearly trying to bleed Russia dry. Dragging the war on till the nation is forever crippled.
The military strategist in me can see the logic but the human in me empathises with the Ukrainian people who have to fight and die for the Wests goal.
Wow, that's a powerful analysis. Thanks.
Yes Russia from it's formation as a nation has been one of brutality and division. I think it's almost become a part of their DNA and there is no hope for it ever changing. Just another dictator taking charge
I’m so glad I got to read your comment.
Russians are good in obeying, that because of misused "patriotism". They think they defend "Mother Russia" before all these Nazis who allegedly want to destroy Russia. It's a pity, because it always was like that.
What a charming, insightful and interesting speaker. The lid is finally being lifted from Russia as an entity, and the ugliness and fraudulence that has been seen, can never be unseen at least by anyone with an open mind.
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I totally agree. One of the largest most difficult issues tgst need to be changed will be many years in the making. That is the russian culture of aggression and expansion. Their belief of ‘scorched earth’ is insane. If they can’t have it…. Then they’ll destroy it to the point no body can have it. Needs to be changed.
@@TheMilwaukieDan… impossible - russian ignorance will allways lead to hate, vengance and distruction !.. its in there dna
So true.
When studying Ukrainian history at UVictoria in 2015, we learned that Kiev existed centuries before Moscow.
But historical records were being destroyed along with the language. Too bad, we thought. Russian tyranny wasn’t new..
BUT NOW! The cat is out of the bag They are charlatans. Tyrannical barbarians.
And now we are remembering.
Вічная Пам’ят (Eternal Memory)
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heh, have you learned that Rus' existed before Kiev? First Rus' cities were Novgorod and Ladoga, which are territories of nowadays Russia. Only 20 years later Oleg conquered Kiev. So, who is the real charlatan?
It's all corrupt your government everybody's government, wake up and see more than you're seeing
When I was a child in the soviet Ucraine, the teacher told us about the etymology of the word Moskva . It turned out, that it was Rotten Water, in tartar language. So. no wonder they have stolen even the name RUS, they didn’t want to be rotten water 😂
Rotten water about sums it up. A putrid болото
Jonathan, with every interview you rightly and eloquently bring to us the true face of “great russian culture” also known as russkiy mir”( war crimes, murder, torture, impunity. Disrespect for human rights and international law). Thank you very much for educating us with all your fabulous guests. 🇺🇦✌️
The Russian habit of appropriating the very history of other cultures was a standing joke in the original TV series Star Trek. The character Chekov would constantly claim that some technology or cultural accomplishment was Russian. The second version of Star Trek, Next Generation, had a similar joke but this time it was the Klingons stealing culture. A thinly veiled reference to Russians as Klingons.
Jonathon you have great guests. Volodymyr is right. Knowledge becomes real when feelings are involved. I think that’s how too many people are able to say “this isn’t my war”. They need to understand this is everybody’s war.
Absolutely right. The future of the whole world is being decided in Ukraine. This war is the front line between autocracy and democracy. I think we may be witnessing the slow death of the dinosaur of Russian imperialism. Chinese imperialism will be next, hopefully. The fly in the ointment could be Donald Trump. If the Republicans win, let's hope Mike Pence is leading them as he is fully in support of Ukraine 🇺🇦
The long term irony of tge horrible war is tgat Ukraine, will rebuild and within 30-50 years be the most modern, educated, technical and cultural center in Europe… most certainly Eastern Europe.Russia will shrink and never change until political beliefs change
its not political beliefs that need to change it is the collective Russian mentality...Russians are the most apolitical nation of people I have experienced. The kremlin doesn't really have political beliefs...it is a mob cartel lead by a mystical thinking revanchist autocrat/kleptokrat with a deeply flawed understanding of history and culture .
Exactly! 💯💯💯
Glory to the Ukrainian People !
Very interesting perspective on Russia. My great grandfather was a german Mennonite that left southern Ukraine in 1890 due to Czarist persecution. The Mennonites were brought in by Catherine the Great to develop farming there. Those that did not assimulate were removed. History repeats itself
Once again, we are brought an essential interview. This is important in understanding the Ukrainian perspective. Thanks.
@@martinoneill5804 Russia is destroying Ukraine and killing its citizens. What other side do you think you're missing?
Thank you for this insight in the thinking of Russians. Hearing this I am more disappointed in Nato countries, they apparently don’t see the urgency to defeat Putin and his cronies! Slava Ukraine, heroyam slava.
It's very important that people know all this. Thank you Volodymyr and Jonathan.
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This 'Russia' nomenclature issue makes the transfer of power from the Soviet Union to Moscow potentially invalid. It's certainly an interesting turn of events when Ukraine is the only country that can claim to be Russia in a historical sense. Ukraine, as Russia, on the UN Security Council instead of Moscow would definitely shake things up. All academics work according to definitions and this historical understanding makes Ukraine, as the historical heart of Russia, the inheritor of all Soviet power and international positions. By definition, Moscow is simply the pretender that has bluffed their way into power.
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Interesting interview of an honest citizen historian rediscovering it's own history.
Once again astounded by the quality & cadence of your work.
💛💙💜💙💛 Jonathan, ask him if he knows about Russia's genocidal war in Myanmar, please. 🇺🇦 🌏 🇺🇸
44:32 I have understood what RussianZ are doing to Ukrainians since Bucha and everything since it is SO MUCH WORSE than we can imagine. I speak up!! I recount the atrocities daily. I might get shadow-banned and some channels might keep my comments hidden. Some get read by others and they are horrified and suddenly understand why there is no negotiation. I will keep talking, writing, learning, sharing. 💛💙💔💙💛 even if it so breaks my heart, or it kills me. I won't stop telling what I know about what the Russians are doing to Ukrainians and anyone else they deem unworthy 😖
27:22 reminds me of people I've known that have "past lives" and they're someone historical 😄 one friend was a farmer in China, in a past life, so not everyone thot they were famous
Always exciting content 😮
Great journalism 🎉🎉🎉
Pomerantz’ book “
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia” published in 2014 describes their bizarre mentality.
(By the way, is Lavrov a human-bloodhound crossbreed? He sure looks like it.)
Yep....must be....a pair of jowls which one cannot fail to see....possibly a bit of Bulldog in there as well...A truly "pedigreed" Pavement Special.....which can also be referred to as a cross between a Jackal and a F#*kall....🤪🤪🤣😎
Hilarious! There is a funny meme out there too with his face next to a loafer and a quote something like
How can you trust me? I am not even human. I am a shoe.
And the resemblance IS striking!
Thank you for the book reference.
Nonono. Russia is, as is well known here in Finland, a graveyard of nations, no prison.
Thank you very much for these conversations! It is so interesting to listen to the people you invite. And it's important to understand what is happening.
"A war to expand the borders of the Russian Federation."
- anonymous Russian mother to her 6 year old daughter
You are misquoting the mother, she explains to the daughter that her father is a hero and is at war to protect them from bad people..."how can I explain that he didn't leave for no reason?" She asks.
It is a Russian soldier, Alexander (on the same forum) who answers her; "Well, start by telling her that he's not protecting but expanding the borders of the Russian Federation." He is honest and brave, that comment could send him to prison.
-From the YT channel 'Insights from Ukraine and Russia', for those interested the title of the video is;
Shh! Russian Soldiers' Wives Reveal the Shocking Side of Russian Military Life In Ukraine!
@@artmcteagle The mother actually says that the father is *not* a hero. Further, it had been over 1.5 years since they seen him and he calls very seldom.
"Attributive projection" - such an important point to make. I feel we in the West have been suffering from this for a long time. It has been so hard to make the imaginative leap needed to perceive what Russia really is, especially as we pride ourselves on seeing our own faults all too clearly. Living in a glass house has effectively prevented us from ever throwing stones. Even when it is absolutely vital for all our sakes that they be thrown.
There is a lack of empathy both in the West (where many people don't understand what Russians truly think, because they believe that Russians think in basically the same way as they do), and in Russia (where many people don't understand what other countries truly think, because Russians believe that all othe countries think the same way Russians do). Only the countries, located _between_ the West and Russia, are able to understand how Russians think, and also how the West thinks, because they were Russian colonies until recently, so they've had a lot of _direct_ experience with Russians.
Adding to the history, an anecdote from my wife's parents, who adopted her: My wife's adoptive grandfather was from White Russia (Belarus). To my great surprise, I was told that he was born into a slave family! That is, they were Serfs, belonging to the local lord. Since the lord had first rights to sleep with any of his newly-wed Serfs, it was never known if he was actually the son of the local lord, or his dad. I learned about Serfdom in history, a system in the Middle Ages, around 1000 years ago. Although the Czar had officially abolished it, it persisted in the empire until the Bolsheviks took over. This kind of widespread slavery in rural areas right up to the C20th might help explain some things.
(My wife's grandfather ended up in France because he was drafted into the army in WW1, got captured by the Germans and put to work in occupied France. After the war, as he was heading home he was warned that the Bolsheviks were really bad - worse than before(!) - so he went back to the only other place he knew, where he had been put to work in France by the Germans, and settled there.)
Very interesting historical and cultural analysis. It would seem that the 17th century was the watershed century for Ukraine in terms of its relationship with Russia. A future interview might focus on ecclesiastical politics and the subjection of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Patriarchate of Moscow, away from its historical links to the Constantinopol patriarchate. It would also be interesting to explore historical parallels between Russian colonisation in Ukraine to that of English colonisation of Ireland. The deliberate suppression of language and mass confiscation of property which occurred in Ukraine, also occurred on mass scale in Ireland. For example, the 1366 Statutues of Kilkenny outlawed Irish language, dress and legal system. The Cromwellian scheme of the Transplantation to Connacht in 1652-55 saw what by modern standards might be called, ethnic cleansing, and the mass dispossession of the Gaelic Irish (and Catholic Old English) landowners class. The 18th century Penal Laws sought to impoverish the majority of Irish people and maintain power in the hands of the tiny majority of the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. One interesting place to start such an investigation would be the Home Rule movement in Ireland in the late 19th century during which great interest was shown by Ukranian nationalists of the period.
"Can't stop listening to the news." I suffer from the same thing. Does the word "PTSD" work here in this situation ?
Same. Been following the news daily since I was shorter than the dishwasher.
Very good video. Thank you!
another great episode
Thank you for another fantastic information filled discussion.
Interesting interview.
Thank you.
"Buy me a coffee" is so played, but thank you.
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27:50 Some irony about that "third Rome" too: Constantinople never fell, it just canged ownership, and Mehmet II naturally assumed the title of "Emperor of Rome". Even before that in the 1200s, Constantinople had been captured by the 4th Crusade and was for a while the capital of the Empire of Constantinople aka. Empire of the Romans (Latin Empire in modern historiography).
My research, book coming out soon, indicates that Vladimir, in which Muscovy originated, broke away from the Kyiv Rus confederation after its prince's armies devasted Kyiv. Effectively established in the North East of Rus this was the latter Russia. Although I doubt such things are so simple, the prince established a tyranny in Vladimir and was known for his ruthlessness. Kyiv Rus sought consensus usually and established diplomacy when conflict arose. But Russia rose from Mongol conquest where Muscovy grew rich and powerful working as an agent for the Mongols. In the 13th century they declared that the Mongols gave them all of the region, all Ukraine and the later Muscovy to rule.
Well, do the world a favor and don't publish your book, because it's already full of falsehoods based off your comment. Kyivan Rus was a brutal place, and nothing about them was any kinder than Moscovia Rus. Read the Primary Chronicle about what Olga did to the Derevlianians, or what the Rus did to the Greeks. Ukraine was just as much of a victim of the Mongol conquest as Russia was.
@@dwl3006 But sadly in the 21st Century, "Russia" in civilisational terms has not progressed beyond their former Mongol overlords.
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Neither has Ukraine, look at all the things their side has been doing, they also proudly execute prisoners.
@@dwl3006..source,…….a cheap bottle of russian vodka..
@@tarasbulba7476 watch interviews of volunteers at the front. I forgot the channel name. Meanwhile your source for believing everything Ukraine says and does is... Ukraine!! LMAO
Very good
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"In Western culture, agreements matter..." vs. Russian culture. I have some Russian acquaintances who will heavily oppose this statement, but the historical facts underline it.
There is a lack of empathy both in the West (where many people don't understand what Russians truly think, because they believe that Russians think in basically the same way as they do), and in Russia (where many people don't understand what other countries truly think, because Russians believe that all othe countries think the same way Russians do). Only the countries, located _between_ the West and Russia, are able to understand how Russians think, and also how the West thinks, because they were Russian colonies until recently, so they've had a lot of _direct_ experience with Russians.
Kleptocracy of history.
My heart goes out to u all in Ukriane Many of us abroad also constantly do the same.
25:51 how Muscovy works" - the Kremlin began in 13th Century, how the Kremlin works?
world 1 -2-3 could be summed up as Viking wars.
Thieves on every level in every way - the more one studies Russia, the clearer that becomes.
Glory to Ukraine!
Героям слава!
…Glory to All of the Heroes of Ukraine..and Thanks for another Great Stream..Johnathan and guest…💙💛💙
Glory to the Ukrainian People and Glory to the Ukrainian Heroes ! Texas, USA . ❤
That's alot of tough talk. But what if the West had turned its back?
In what sense is any of this tough talk? If the West had turned its back everything that Volodymyr Kukharenko has described would have happened.
Brtish Isles were guilty too, when colonizing USA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA AND NZ. What they did to the people of these lands. Today, things have slowly improved, yet because of harsh repression from the colonizers, one can see the tragedy of the Australian aboriginal today, the shocking effects of the Innuits and American Indian tribes and NZ was guilty too. Yet, in NZ I like how the white colonizers have more partnership, equity and equality with Māori. The most important thing in that country and others should follow, is they have a Māori curriculum in Te Reo which follows Tikanga. Australia, USA and Canada need to follow by example. As the outcomes are success with Māori graduates, as this has been measured over the years.
While many of us may have done wrong things, it's more important whether we are able to change or not. And talking about the war and war crimes the western societies say "never again!", while ruzzians say "можем повторить!". Feel free to find the translation from orcish to English.
@@sweetest.potato Don't need the translator, as understand.
There is nothing significantly wrong with Australia. Issues are mostly blown up by the leftist media for political points. I've lived my 60+ years between Australua and NZ. NZ isn't a bed of roses. In spite of a treaty and a bunch of other programs, it's a more racist country than Australia. It's bicultural. It's Pakeha vs Maori. Paheha this and Maori that. It's endless and it's soul destroying. That's why my wife and I moved to Australia. You have to dig deeper than the headlines. But the problems are not due to Britian. It's due to disingenuous players. That's all I'll say about it here.
@@toby9999 Obviously your life probably revolves around the Gold Coast, or another city. With those clueless comments about Australia, you must be blind and deaf to what is going on there. My eyes were awakened to deep seated problems in OZ back in the early 80s . I have been all over that continent, seen firsthand the depravity and lack of equity and equality amongst the Aboriginals. The problems are snowballing and the curriculum in each state does not align to Aboriginal people. In NZ at least they offer the Māori curriculum which has proven over and over again to have a high success rate. It is not about the headlines; it is taking note of people that have worked for decades alongside Aboriginal communities and iwis on both side of the pond, who have a collective anthropological wealth of experience on what colonization had done to these cultures.
Turn back? And let Putin put the Russian Empire on our doorstep? There was only ever one way this was going to end.
True Russia always was barbaric