Crimea is Crucial for Understanding the History of Ukraine - Serhii Plokhy
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Ukraine has a very deep cultural history. Although the country never appeared on the map for longer than a few months until 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed, its roots go back thousands of years, to when historian Herodotus wrote about Crimea and the Olbia region that is now part of southern Ukraine.
“When you look at the territory of Ukraine - the internationally recognized territory of Ukraine - Crimea has more history than any other part of Ukraine,” says author and professor at the Harvard University Serhii Plokhy.
Plokhy - who has written numerous books including the London-published Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy and The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine - adds that without Crimean history, the history of Ukraine “doesn't have a beginning, it's just cut off.”
“Crimea is also important for the world history as a whole. That's also what makes Ukrainian history really international and integrated into the history of Mediterranean, into the history of Europe, into the history of world,” he says.
Hromadske sat down with Plokhy to discuss some of his most recent books and the imprint various historical events have left on Ukraine.
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Crimea was a khanate with turkic people and mongol people living there back in the day.
Crimea was never culturally linked with Ukraine . It’s always been Russian and pro Moscow even from 1991-2014.
Not according to professional historians such as Timothy Snyder and Serhii Plokhii.
And you have been always for russian invasion!
@@cslonginottithey are not professionals they are propagandists
Crimea is more linked to Turkey actually considering that there lived Crimean Tatars
@@MrAnilachanCrimean tartars aren’t native to Crimea and Crimea has been Russian before the U.S was a country.