Poland and Ukraine in Modern Times: No One Can Even Agree What Happened- Episode 14

All countries have national myths: stories about origins; specialness of 'our' country; heroic ancestors; unjust victimhood - or some mixture of all of these. Sometimes these are 'myths' in the sense of pure fabrication; more often, they are mythic re-tellings, and attribution of patriotic meaning, to actual events - usually with quite a few embellishments thrown in for good measure. But what happens if a crucial - even foundational - element of one nation's myth is the same set of (embellished) events as those of another nation? Which of them was the thief? Or the johnny-come-lately? (Or, perhaps, not even a 'real' country - whatever that might mean?!)
You've guessed it: We're talking about Ukraine and Russia.
00:00 Intro
04:29 Conflicting stories
07:24 Examples of National Myths
13:05 Kievan Rus: Ukraine and Russia's shared origin
18:40 Prince Volodymyr
22:06 Mongol Invasions
28:04 The Rise of Muscovy
34:33 Ukraine Backstory
42:14 Poland Backstory
46:26 Late 1700's Land Re-Distribution
53:23 Conclusion

[@Pdmn_3]

The name of the video have about nothing connected with provided content (moscowian view on the imperial history of territories)

[@michaelpearse5603]

The series *as a whole* is on Poland and Ukrain. Next one will be mostly on Poland. Third about both. :)

[@panhoracy8254]

Seemd more like Russian and Ukrainian episode. Not much about Polish developements there. It will be hard to explain modern history of both nations without explaining how second side developed and how it saw region

[@michaelpearse5603]

The series *as a whole* is on Poland and Ukrain. Next one will be mostly on Poland. Third about both. :)