Very cool video. I live in Pennsylvania but both sides of my family moved here from Galicia in the late 1800s to work in the coal mines here and ive always been interested in learning about my roots.
Thanks for sharing! I’ve heard from my dad that his grandpa worked in the coal mines in Pennsylvania too but then emigrated back to Ukraine for some reason. My uncle currently lives in Pennsylvania too.
Interesting how Ukraine gleefully took Romanian lands, just because they were "occupied by USSR in 1940, 1948, not our fault". Followed by displacing the native population, same tactic as Russians. Same with the Polish territory in 1939, Ruthenia in 1945... PS: map at 24:10
Thank you for clearing things up in this video and setting the record straight about Ukraine's history as an independent, self- sovereign nation of people who I admire as clearly having (In my Opinion) been the perfect example of the most Indigenous, humanistic, resilient & socially progressive extension of the Slavic people who's culture and history should be where the West looks to and thinks of and considered more when they judge this region. Russian Imperialism has made it so that your people are essentially being lumped into and kidnapped into a clearly bloodthirsty & merciless monster machine of an empire and my heart breaks daily knowing whats happening there. I wish I had known this things all along
Thank you for sharing your Galician roots and Ukrainian experience with us. Thank you for the detailed historical explanation that westerners like me don't know or understand well enough. You are doing your part to support Ukraine and its fight🇺🇦💪❤ Slava Ukraini ❤🇺🇸
Thank you, That Bygone Girl, for this video. You brought tears to my face. Tears of shame that I know so little of history of my own country. Tears of pain thinking how our people, friends and family, are enduring so much pain and suffering. Tears of pride. For being Ukrainian. For our people. For having you as my best friend. I am so proud and grateful to have you in my life.
No crying please! I suppose tears of pride are acceptable. Ukraine will persevere! There is truth and justice on our side. Thank you for watching this and for caring!
Americans, with the exception of morally corrupt people like Tucker Carlson, support Ukraine and are praying for your people. The unjust attack against the brave people of Ukraine breaks my heart. Last year I watched a Russian TV 8 part history of Russia and their historic origins. I understood the history of Ukraine to be a country of its own before Russian was even a word in the language. I don’t even speak the language in the docuseries and was able to understand Ukraine was a independent country and is not a subservient portion of Russia. I really enjoyed this video about the Ruthenian nation. I will continue my prayers for the Ukraine and it’s freedom loving people. I pray it’s people defeat the invaders and it’s people are delivered from this hellish war.
Thank you for watching this! And thank you for being concerned. I love your work and your channel and hearing you say that means a lot! I am Ukrainian but I live in the US. I worry about my grandpa who lives in western Ukraine, but so far he's doing okay! My friends here have family in Kyiv and Mykolayiv and other towns that are under attack. It's much tougher on them.
@@GalicianGranddaughter666 I really hope the situation gets better soon, but it's hard to know right now. I'm glad your grandpa is okay. Actually, I'm originally from Georgia. We moved to Spain in 2008, months before Russia attacked my country. I think this is why I especially appreciate you making this video.
@@tikaedits Oh wow I didn't know that. I hope your family is okay after that. I've seen videos of many Georgian volunteers fighting within the Ukrainian army. Ukraine is grateful! I wasn't informed about all things Russia did in Georgia and Chechnya before they touched Ukraine. I wish media talked about Georgia more before this. It's incredibly frustrating that Russia has been abusing its neighbors as long as it exists and continues to do it still.
Thank you for this video. So much work done and such a genuine motive. I was thinking of putting together something similar, but this is already so well done. I hope more people see it. I wish more people knew our real history. Movie references like in Roksolana or Vikings are so frustrating.
You have made the best record I have seen in a long time on video. I admire your bravery and your determination. I have red red salmon. I knew Stalin had enforced that starvation Dupree get to hear and see accounts of that time are truly damning for the Soviets. Russia has no moral or historical right to the lands of Ukraine. Keep up the good work on spreading knowledge of the Ukraine. People in the west have to see it they have to hear it they must if they're going to truly understand. Always keep your arguments based on fact and you will have one of victory for the Ukraine. The West definitely is on side of the Ukraine. The only catch is they don't want to start a thermonuclear war or a general World War which would bring about the destruction of most of Europe if not all of it and much of Asia. I urge you to keep on writing keep making these videos people in the west have to know that the Ukrainian people are in fact people and they are different from the Russians. The vast majority of my youth was spent living in Edmonton and we had a majority of my classmates were Ukrainian. I spent most of my youth in Edmonton Alberta. Ukrainian refugees Knights of the 1930s settled in and around Edmonton right through to Winnipeg Manitoba. A larger tract of land in the Ukraine. Majority of the family spoke Ukrainian and they celebrated all the holidays with get-togethers are ukrainians with meat and talk dance and yes eat. I have learned the difference between pierogi and ( I know that the spelling a mess because it does not speak Ukrainian.) Padahair? Hooked on phonics needs an up date. I know for a fact that as long as there is a Ukrainian there is a Ukraine. The Ukraine is inside all ukrainians the soil of Ukraine is inside all ukrainians. As long as there is a Ukrainian there is a Ukraine. A small note on the side of the pie at Ukrainian pioneers. Ukrainians actually make a square peg in a round hole work. Much of the many homes in Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba were built from the soil up. There were no imported goods used. Ukrainians had to make everything for they had nothing but themselves and their language and their history. So when they put together two beams they would drill a hole through two beams for a peg to hold them together. Now this appears illogical but if you use a round pay it will either fall out or split the wood thereby rendering the wood useless for construction. Ukrainians use the square peg hammered into the round hole and that's what kept the buildings together for more than 100 years without any renovation. Squarepeg would not cause the primary wooden skeleton of the homes together the wood would not split and the pig would always be in there tight and secure. So God bless you and your nation.
Very informative video! As a person who loves the preservation and significance of history, as well as the effect it has had on society, watching this video has been a great experience!
Gteat video. My great grandparents were Ruthenian and came from Galicia to Philadelphia around 1911. They came from the Nowy Sacz area in what is now southeastern Poland. They never used the words "Rusyn" or "Lemko". I am not sure why, but it seems to me that people who identify as either of those two terms tend to be more Russophilic. Слава Галичині
Draga Ukrajinko (Biela Hrvatice). This was a very concise and informative overview of Ukrainian (Ruthenian) history. Way too few people even in Croatia know this history, some even fall for Moscow propaganda. Could it be said that Moscovia usurped the Rus' identity while Ukraine (Ruthenia) has way more Rus's heritage? Anyway, a mililion people should see this video. Much love from your Croatian brother from the south. Slava Ukrajini! 🇺🇦❤🇭🇷
@@croatianwarmaster7872 I'm glad you found my video informative! It was just just something I needed to get off my chest at the time because none of the channels covered Ukrainian history. But soon after, Kings and Generals and Biographics and many many other channels began to talk about Ukraine. Which just makes me feel like the truth is coming out for those willing to learn. I do feel like in the States no-one really knows much about anything west of Germany and Italy unless they come from Central and Eastern Europe themselves. They just know Russia and that's a very sad fact.
Look at the word Ruthenia "Roethernia" and it will make you re-think Western education. Here's a song: Moriaanjte, Moriaanjte zwarte als roet. Black child, Black child Black as soot. Notice how I said Black in three different languages. The Ruthenians were Black the the word means Kleurling lands "Coloured Lands" as in Land of Ns. Hence it's were the Slavs lived.
Ruthenia means Russia in Latin as far as I know; Ukraine doesn’t have that name until 20th century it was called Malorusia and corresponds to part of Ukraine is that right? I am from a neighbor country in our dictionary ETHNIC concerns belonging to a people; regarding the specific forms of culture and civilization of a people. Is that totally different to you? Can you prove a totally different culture and civilization coming from the same origins Kievean Rus (when by the way you were all called rus?) it is like Romans and other Latin tribes in Italy Romanized. (My Opinion) Ethnic name = people's name (Ruthenia Latinized name of Russia and Russia). If we talk about how you name the persons it is 98% the same. Ethnic group = part of the population in a society speaking the same language, sharing the same attitudes, behaviors, mental traits, etc. as a product of the common cultural origin and tradition. - From Fr. Ethnic, lat. ethnic. You pretend that you had totally different. Related ethnicity; proper to an ethnic group. Related to the material culture of a people. In my country traditionally we call our Ukrainian neighbors Russians.
It was called Little Russia only in the educated classes and in the official terminology of the empire. Ordinary people did not know this word at all and used the name Ukraine. What "origins" can be in a disparate, multi-ethnic pseudo-statehood, with zero percent communication between them? There is not and cannot be any kind of "monolithism". The Russians literally don't understand Ukrainian (Ukrainians Russian also, before the 20th century, but after the total Russification they know), and we have a completely different type of behavior; travelers and scientists wrote a lot about this in the 19th century in their books, and one of the most important such differences (what we can observe now, lol) is the penchant of Ukrainians for democracy and anarchy, while Russians are prone to authoritarianism and monarchy.
1. What country are you from? 2. Ruthenia NEVER referred to Russia. Ruthenia is the word used for Rus lands within Poland/Lithuania/Austria. At the same time the word Moscovia was used for current Russian lands. 3. Ukrainian language shares most similarities with Belorussian, followed by Polish, and only then by Russian. 4. If you deliberately call a Ukrainian person Russian while knowing where they are from, you can get punched in the face. 5. We might have some similarities with Russians because we were forcefully taught their customs. Eastern Ukraine was under Russian rule for 300 years. Western Ukraine for around 66. This is why Western Ukraine hates Russia more. We had less of their influences over time. 6. Ukrainian vs Russian mentality. See an important thing in our respective cultures is the idea of self-determination. Ukraine has it. Russia does not. See when Ukrainians don’t like something they go out and protest. When Russians don’t like something they say they can do nothing to change it. In all of its history, Ukraine has been fighting for freedom with short successes, albeit failing a lot. Russia has never known a time without autocratic rule.
"Ruthenia" is the Latinization of the Greek word "Rosia." The Byzantine Greeks called what's now Russia, Ukraine and Belarus "Rosia." All of it. In fact it was the Greeks that called the area around Kiev "Mikra Rosia" or Small Russia; and the area around Moscow with it's vast wilderness "Megali Rosia" or Big Russia. In fact, as late as the 17th century, westerners referred to Muscovia as "Ruthenia." It won't let me post a link here, but I'd recommend looking up "Ruthenia" on Wikipedia. There you will find historical references to the area around Moscow and even the Russian far north and Caspian as "Ruthenia". Ruthenia very much means Russia. But the meaning/usage has changed over time. Even The Encyclopedia of Ukraine, which has a nationalist bias, admits this in its article on the term "Ruthenia." As history went on, the term "Ruthenia" became more and more restricted. Today there are 2 reasons why "Ruthenia" is used almost exclusively to refer to Ukraine, Belarus and Carpathia. 1.) Ruthenia is a Latin word, and the Catholic Church was the main space within which that name was used for the past 4 centuries, given their usage of Latin. The Rus they were talking about the most were the ones who were theirs: Uniates. 2.) Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian nationalists began to use the term Ruthenia as a distinction between the Rus who lived in the western territories that had been occupied by Lithuania and Poland, versus the Rus in the east who coalesced around an independent Moscow. It was a deliberate act of distinction using an already existent word, albeit under a new meaning. Muscovites were unlikely to call themselves by a Latin name. They opted for the Greek "Rosia" which became "Rossiya." Ukrainian and Belarusian nationalists viewed Lithuanian and Polish annexation as a positive occurrence, owing their nationalisms to those annexations/occupations, and were happy to use the exonym applied to them by their former masters.
@@GalicianGranddaughter666 I just try to clarify some aspects I am from Romania, Bucharest, we took a lot of Ukrainian refugees although Ukraine loved us a lot, they called Romanian gypsies. Our people in Bucovina cannot be taught in their own languages and you cannot have 2 citizenships. Is this correct? Ukraine wanted not so long ago to make a canal to destroy the Danube Delta (Danube Delta a place from Romania which is UNESCO World Heritage and where by the way the Bulgars of Asparuh moved and established a form of state),the destruction of the Danube Delta was to build a canal a decision based on selfish own interest (Bâstroe), UNESCO does not count. Sulina branch is also not to be used because by “mistake” a ship “Rostock” (check under what flag) made it impossible to use. What I write is my personal view. Coming back to the issue I do not know so much about your history we are closer to the Serbian and Bulgarian. Serbs talk about the Battle between Serbinda and Indira. Serboi (3000 BC- 175 A.D.). White Serbia 370-600 A.D. According to them they split the PROTO-SLAVS into Antes and Slavs. Antes from the Dnieper river become Kievean Rus. One part of them splits and move down the Danube in Bulgaria and are conquered by the Bulgarian Turkic tribe. First to have Czars. And who had two empires. The Slavs move west to Elba establish White Serbia following the German migration to the Roman Empire Alpes and spread south and the East. According to the legend there were two brothers Lech and Czech (the Polish and Czech). 562 A.D.-635 A.D. Serbs move to current place while Bulgars from Old Great Bulgaria located roughly where - the present day Ukraine is, moved to present day Bulgaria. The Serbs also had one Empire. But history is not so simple. Regarding the sentence “If you deliberately call a Ukrainian person Russian while knowing where they are from, you can get punched in the face.” I understand that Ukraine wants to join the EU, and in such a case you have to politely bring arguments for your thesis, punch in the face is Russian style.
Amazing video. Since the invasion started I have watched numerous videos about Ukrainian history (I'm American), but none of them have come close to hitting the nail the way you did here. Really good information, many thanks. There is something about this war that makes me feel that truly understanding it and the history of Ukraine will open my mind to a deep sense of truth. There is more to the invasion than just Putin being a dick. The way that the world economic leaders profiteer the weapon deliveries to Ukraine and do essentially nothing to Putin for his actions (sanctions are a joke) does not sit well with me. Out of curiosity, do you live in the US now? Your English is perfect, and I hardly detect any accent.
Thank you! I moved to the US in 2014 with my mom so that had considerable impact on my English proficiency. I have my grandpa still living in Ukraine all alone and refusing to leave. We have been visiting him every summer for about 1-2 months since then.
@@GalicianGranddaughter666 ahh ok that checks. I love that generation. We call them the Greatest Generation for a reason :) I wish him/you all the best!
None. Poland and Austria don’t get so much hate because, unlike Russia, they actually allowed Ukrainians to have some autonomy and never banned our language.
@@GalicianGranddaughter666 Then suppose they had not happened and those countries had still had their interwar borders at the time of Ukrainian independence. Czechoslovakia,,t approaching its break-up, still held the land called "sub-Carpathian Ruthenia" or "Carpatho-Ukraine". Poland still held Lviv and a region east of that Czech-held bit separating it from the rest of Ukraine. What would Ukrainians' view be of those lands having ended up outside your state? Would there be an Injustice feeling that your state should have them?
@@conscienceaginBlackadder Why should I suppose it didn't happen? If I suppose Russia fell apart, Japan would still have Kuril Islands, Finland would still have Karelia. All the "smaller nations" within Russia would be independent Chuvash, Chechens, Udmurts, Yakuts, etc. Kuban would be Ukrainian. Do you see any sense in imagining that? What would be, would have been, doesn't matter. Ukraine is the way it is and Poland and other nations recognized our borders and support us. We gave up nukes in the 90s so that they recognize those borders. Russia keeps dreaming of expansion since it crawled out of the Moscow swamp.
I'm curious to ask about your ancestors during the 2nd World War. Did they fight? And if so then for who? Because I've heard alot of western Ukrainians volunteered to join nazi ss and police units. I'm wondering what you think about that.
Bandera and Ukrainian Insurgent Army were Nationalists not Nazis. Did you expect them to fight with Stalin after he intentionally starved 6 million Ukrainians to death? Slava Galicia
I’m from Alabama in the USA which is considered one the most backwards, less educated places in the US. About a year ago, I watched the 8 part 8 hour long, Russian TV made history of Russia. Even I understood that Ukraine was an independent nation/region before Russia was even it’s own nation. This was long before Russia’s intentions was on the Western European and American span of attention. Regardless of who belongs to whom, the aggression against the civilian population that Russian soldiers are being encouraged to terrorize is just barbaric and morally bankrupt. In the US, we see the uncensored footage of 90 yr ladies being attacked by soldiers, children being bombed in buildings with signs visible from planes stating children are housed there, maternity hospitals bombed and the survivors own accounts of being raped and tortured by Russian soldiers. There is NO JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS EVIL. Ukraine has a right to self determination and they are willing to fight to the death for that freedom. Looking back at Russian history, what does Putin expect to accomplish here besides turning cousins against each other? The only way to not have a future society plagued by dissidents fighting is to win over the minds of the people or completely eradicate the people. It appears that Putin is going for eradication by destroying the towns in Ukraine it occupies. Why bomb elementary schools except to terrorize? They are not liberating anyone in Ukraine, they are destroying everything to begin anew with Russian citizens transported to exploit the resources. Putin can’t claim he is ending Nazism when his own soldiers under his command are the ones slaughtering innocent women, children and the elderly. It’s breaks my heart that Ukraine is suffering so badly and I pray for it’s people each night? I can’t help but imagine that if the everyday Russian people were truly allowed to see the footage of tanks firing at maternity hospitals, children and the elderly slaughtered in the streets, corpses of civilian old men with their hand sound bound their backs and shot in the head, the people of Russia wouldn’t be so complacent of what is happening. The only reason to outlaw coverage of the war is to hide the crimes the soldiers are committing. People in Russian like the elderly lady with the sign are jailed for just holding a sign that says war on it. If anyone is behaving like Nazis, it’s Putin. I just hope the people of Ukraine can continue to endure this hell and continue to assert it’s right to self determination. All Russia has done is send they few non NATO countries running to NATO to join. Before the war ignited, Ukraine offered to stay NATO neutral but Russia invaded anyway. Putin keeps moving the goal posts because he never intended to liberalize. If he is successful, he will just look to his next neighbor to exploit. My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Ukraine.
Sure you do, Peter. Russian news telling about Ukrainians being trained by gay instructors from NATO and using biological weapons through pigeons is your type of true info.
@@IEye-SR- I’m a bit confused. Do you think I’m the lady in the video? I’m in Alabama in the US. You lost the ability to persuade me to changing my viewpoint by starting your response by saying your grandmother would spit in my face if I called her Ukrainian. Perhaps my knowledge of Slavic history is lacking but my opinion of the war has been consistently reinforced based upon seeing how both sides have behaved in the last year. Only one side is purposefully bombing residential areas, women & children’s hospitals and designated shelters for the elderly and children. I am a Pediatric Trauma and Neonatal ICU RN so it’s fair to say the news coverage of dying pregnant women from a bombed out women’s hospital does especially affect me. I can’t imagine the trauma and devastation the victims of this war are trying to live through and pray for peace to come soon. I am curious if you have access to news not censored by the Russian government. Perhaps my knowledge on the history of the Slavic nations is lacking but I can easily recognize when people just want freedom to govern themselves.
The fact they use Sergey bogrov, a man who has been dead since the early 2000s his movie quote from брат 2 to use as a slogan to justify their invasion. I've been arguing with my russian friend over the identity of ruthenian identity, and you know they can never be wrong if they only believe their truth. Bc their truth is their power. Слава Украине
Thank you so much ma'am. I knew there was more to the story but didn't know where to start looking. I really hope the invaders are pushed into the sea. Please stay safe you seem so nice 🙏😊🙏
While I always say that Russia and Ukraine have a shared complex but interconnected history, I support Ukraine’s fight and condemn the illegal actions of Russia because of the fact that Ukraine has been its own state ever since the fall of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union and the fact that historical precedence does not mean claim in any way. So yeah Slava Ukraini!
I just hate the whole interconnected history aspect. Like okay so do Pakistan and India, Canada and US, hell even France and Italy with Charlemagne and all. Every country has interconnected history with others. Ukraine is no less interconnected with Poland in terms of it's history. The "brother nations" narrative makes me gag after seeing the atrocities in Bucha. Poles are our brothers, not Russians.
@@GalicianGranddaughter666 Russians as humans too, but their regimes not. Also FYI: Russians are also persecuted by their own people. Many of them who support you all are forced to silent or sent to jail, many of them left Russia, speech freedom is restricted, all independent medias closed. I understand about your feeling and many Russians seems like support war, but many other Russians are actually not but the problem is their own safety and stuffs. I bet if they see photo of Russian state war crime, they'll surprised and feel bad of it Glory to Ukraine, freedom in Ukraine and Russia, free Russia from oppressors who oppressed Ukraine throughout history
@@tfn212 Yeah sure there may be 20% in Russia who don't support the war. That does not mean they are our brothers as a nation. That means that they have enough cognitive capabilities to see evil as evil. Sure, there's people like Illya Yashin who are jailed over this. But they are a minority. Russians overall have an imperialist mentality. They expect all people to speak Russian to them wherever they go. Georgia, Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia, Kazakhstan, etc. They will never have a Revolution like Ukrainians and Belorussians did because they are content being the way they are.
@@GalicianGranddaughter666 Don't forget, the minorities you mentioned other than protestors are VPN users and most of diaspora. If you say most Russians have imperialistic thought, mostly elderly and only believe mainstream medias there which are already controlled, since speech freedom there is persecuted, leaving Russian free medias have no choice but leaving Russia, and people who want unbiased news should access VPN. It's not simply like you said Young people there who were born after fall of USSR often see Russia as positive free country with neighbouring countries as friends and brothers, until this recent years, when Putin is becoming more aggressive. Even, invasion to Ukraine makes them shocked Addition: Everything Russian which are good were Ukrainian, even Muscovy was Ukrainian state before they developed own power then becoming Russian Empire. I think they all should be returned to Kyiv, so the great historical Ukraine can be great onve again
Well when you say Russia you should clarify that you’re talking about the Russian government and the Russian official academics and all the other authority figures, and not the Russian common people. The Russian common people don’t care about any of this stuff. They just wanna be left alone to live in peace, and raise their families. You know there are many Russians, including some academics and researchers who claim that the true history of Slavic Russian people has been erased since the coming of Orthodox Church/Christianity, including the Christian pro-West dynasty the Romanovs who themselves were foreigners and not ethnic Russians, because very little Slavic Russian blood flowed through the veins of Romanovs have continued to erase the true past of ethnic Russians, and then after them came the stinking Bolsheviks who took up the baton from the Romanovs, and continued to erase Russian history and burn the books. Do you know the Romanoff member Peter the first hated everything native ethnic Russian, and so he basically reformed everything in Russia to mimic the west. He changed everything in Russia to mimic the west from the food, to the way people wore their hair, to the clothing/fashion, everything. He forced all of the men in the land to cut off their beard and long hair. All of this is public knowledge. Peter the first forced the women to wear western fashion, basically Russia started to copy France and other western countries. And during that time even the language in the aristocratic Russian circles wasn’t even Russian it was French German and other western languages. Again all of this is official knowledge. And I do not have any problems with people of any countries, any western European country or anywhere in the world. I’m not talking about the common people of any country I’m talking about the ruling powers of those countries. I know that the same thing happened to all indigenous people around the world, they were all forced to separate from their native indigenous roots, and accept a foreign identity and even sometimes language, traditions etc. Peter the first founded the Russian Academy of sciences in St. Petersburg, which he filled up with foreign scholars. Those are the people who wrote down Russian history of today. Russian Academy of sciences in its first stages of life had mostly foreign scholars and only just a few Russian scholars. Anybody can write down Russian history be he a German or a Jew as long as he’s not a Russian. This is when the official Russian history was concocted, driven by the Norman theory. You do know what Norman theory is right? Norman theory on which official Russian history is based proposes that Russian people got all of their culture and even language from the foreigners, from the Scandinavians. Again I have no problems with Scandinavian people I love them, I’m just explaining. It proposes the Russians were wild and primitive barbarians until Orthodox Church and Scandinavian Christian princes came over there and civilized them, and gave them their culture. A lot of Russian scholars today deny this Norman Theory, and say that the earlier princes of Russia were not Scandinavian in origins, but Slavic Russian. I’m talking about Rurik dynasty, etc… so there are groups in Russia who are fighting their own battle right now with falsified history.
Very cool video. I live in Pennsylvania but both sides of my family moved here from Galicia in the late 1800s to work in the coal mines here and ive always been interested in learning about my roots.
Thanks for sharing! I’ve heard from my dad that his grandpa worked in the coal mines in Pennsylvania too but then emigrated back to Ukraine for some reason. My uncle currently lives in Pennsylvania too.
Wow! Same here. Early 1900s galicia to Pennsylvania.
Interesting how Ukraine gleefully took Romanian lands, just because they were "occupied by USSR in 1940, 1948, not our fault". Followed by displacing the native population, same tactic as Russians.
Same with the Polish territory in 1939, Ruthenia in 1945...
PS: map at 24:10
Your passion moves my heart and understanding for our people
Thank you for clearing things up in this video and setting the record straight about Ukraine's history as an independent, self- sovereign nation of people who I admire as clearly having (In my Opinion) been the perfect example of the most Indigenous, humanistic, resilient & socially progressive extension of the Slavic people who's culture and history should be where the West looks to and thinks of and considered more when they judge this region. Russian Imperialism has made it so that your people are essentially being lumped into and kidnapped into a clearly bloodthirsty & merciless monster machine of an empire and my heart breaks daily knowing whats happening there. I wish I had known this things all along
How do you mean socially progressive?
Thank you for sharing your Galician roots and Ukrainian experience with us. Thank you for the detailed historical explanation that westerners like me don't know or understand well enough. You are doing your part to support Ukraine and its fight🇺🇦💪❤ Slava Ukraini ❤🇺🇸
Thank you, That Bygone Girl, for this video. You brought tears to my face. Tears of shame that I know so little of history of my own country. Tears of pain thinking how our people, friends and family, are enduring so much pain and suffering. Tears of pride. For being Ukrainian. For our people. For having you as my best friend. I am so proud and grateful to have you in my life.
No crying please! I suppose tears of pride are acceptable. Ukraine will persevere! There is truth and justice on our side. Thank you for watching this and for caring!
Americans, with the exception of morally corrupt people like Tucker Carlson, support Ukraine and are praying for your people. The unjust attack against the brave people of Ukraine breaks my heart. Last year I watched a Russian TV 8 part history of Russia and their historic origins. I understood the history of Ukraine to be a country of its own before Russian was even a word in the language. I don’t even speak the language in the docuseries and was able to understand Ukraine was a independent country and is not a subservient portion of Russia. I really enjoyed this video about the Ruthenian nation. I will continue my prayers for the Ukraine and it’s freedom loving people. I pray it’s people defeat the invaders and it’s people are delivered from this hellish war.
Thank you for sharing this with us!
I hope you're doing okay given the circumstances.
Thank you for watching this! And thank you for being concerned. I love your work and your channel and hearing you say that means a lot!
I am Ukrainian but I live in the US. I worry about my grandpa who lives in western Ukraine, but so far he's doing okay! My friends here have family in Kyiv and Mykolayiv and other towns that are under attack. It's much tougher on them.
@@GalicianGranddaughter666 I really hope the situation gets better soon, but it's hard to know right now. I'm glad your grandpa is okay.
Actually, I'm originally from Georgia. We moved to Spain in 2008, months before Russia attacked my country. I think this is why I especially appreciate you making this video.
@@tikaedits Oh wow I didn't know that. I hope your family is okay after that. I've seen videos of many Georgian volunteers fighting within the Ukrainian army. Ukraine is grateful! I wasn't informed about all things Russia did in Georgia and Chechnya before they touched Ukraine. I wish media talked about Georgia more before this. It's incredibly frustrating that Russia has been abusing its neighbors as long as it exists and continues to do it still.
Thank you for this video. So much work done and such a genuine motive. I was thinking of putting together something similar, but this is already so well done. I hope more people see it.
I wish more people knew our real history.
Movie references like in Roksolana or Vikings are so frustrating.
You have made the best record I have seen in a long time on video. I admire your bravery and your determination. I have red red salmon. I knew Stalin had enforced that starvation Dupree get to hear and see accounts of that time are truly damning for the Soviets. Russia has no moral or historical right to the lands of Ukraine. Keep up the good work on spreading knowledge of the Ukraine. People in the west have to see it they have to hear it they must if they're going to truly understand. Always keep your arguments based on fact and you will have one of victory for the Ukraine. The West definitely is on side of the Ukraine. The only catch is they don't want to start a thermonuclear war or a general World War which would bring about the destruction of most of Europe if not all of it and much of Asia. I urge you to keep on writing keep making these videos people in the west have to know that the Ukrainian people are in fact people and they are different from the Russians. The vast majority of my youth was spent living in Edmonton and we had a majority of my classmates were Ukrainian. I spent most of my youth in Edmonton Alberta. Ukrainian refugees Knights of the 1930s settled in and around Edmonton right through to Winnipeg Manitoba. A larger tract of land in the Ukraine. Majority of the family spoke Ukrainian and they celebrated all the holidays with get-togethers are ukrainians with meat and talk dance and yes eat. I have learned the difference between pierogi and ( I know that the spelling a mess because it does not speak Ukrainian.) Padahair? Hooked on phonics needs an up date. I know for a fact that as long as there is a Ukrainian there is a Ukraine. The Ukraine is inside all ukrainians the soil of Ukraine is inside all ukrainians. As long as there is a Ukrainian there is a Ukraine. A small note on the side of the pie at Ukrainian pioneers. Ukrainians actually make a square peg in a round hole work. Much of the many homes in Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba were built from the soil up. There were no imported goods used. Ukrainians had to make everything for they had nothing but themselves and their language and their history. So when they put together two beams they would drill a hole through two beams for a peg to hold them together. Now this appears illogical but if you use a round pay it will either fall out or split the wood thereby rendering the wood useless for construction. Ukrainians use the square peg hammered into the round hole and that's what kept the buildings together for more than 100 years without any renovation. Squarepeg would not cause the primary wooden skeleton of the homes together the wood would not split and the pig would always be in there tight and secure. So God bless you and your nation.
Very informative video! As a person who loves the preservation and significance of history, as well as the effect it has had on society, watching this video has been a great experience!
Thank you!!! Love your channel and really appreciate this 💙💛
You’re doing amazing and important work.
Слава Україні
Спасибо💙
Gteat video.
My great grandparents were Ruthenian and came from Galicia to Philadelphia around 1911. They came from the Nowy Sacz area in what is now southeastern Poland. They never used the words "Rusyn" or "Lemko". I am not sure why, but it seems to me that people who identify as either of those two terms tend to be more Russophilic.
Слава Галичині
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Draga Ukrajinko (Biela Hrvatice). This was a very concise and informative overview of Ukrainian (Ruthenian) history. Way too few people even in Croatia know this history, some even fall for Moscow propaganda. Could it be said that Moscovia usurped the Rus' identity while Ukraine (Ruthenia) has way more Rus's heritage? Anyway, a mililion people should see this video. Much love from your Croatian brother from the south. Slava Ukrajini! 🇺🇦❤🇭🇷
When I hear you speak, I feel the same emotion that I feel for Croatia. Shedding a tear for the suffering of your folk. A true love for your kin.
@@croatianwarmaster7872 I'm glad you found my video informative! It was just just something I needed to get off my chest at the time because none of the channels covered Ukrainian history. But soon after, Kings and Generals and Biographics and many many other channels began to talk about Ukraine. Which just makes me feel like the truth is coming out for those willing to learn.
I do feel like in the States no-one really knows much about anything west of Germany and Italy unless they come from Central and Eastern Europe themselves. They just know Russia and that's a very sad fact.
#respect Slava Ukraina btw this deserves ALOT more views
Thank you!
Look at the word Ruthenia "Roethernia" and it will make you re-think Western education.
Here's a song: Moriaanjte, Moriaanjte zwarte als roet.
Black child, Black child Black as soot.
Notice how I said Black in three different languages.
The Ruthenians were Black the the word means Kleurling lands "Coloured Lands" as in Land of Ns.
Hence it's were the Slavs lived.
Ruthenia means Russia in Latin as far as I know; Ukraine doesn’t have that name until 20th century it was called Malorusia and corresponds to part of Ukraine is that right?
I am from a neighbor country in our dictionary ETHNIC concerns belonging to a people; regarding the specific forms of culture and civilization of a people. Is that totally different to you?
Can you prove a totally different culture and civilization coming from the same origins Kievean Rus (when by the way you were all called rus?) it is like Romans and other Latin tribes in Italy Romanized. (My Opinion)
Ethnic name = people's name (Ruthenia Latinized name of Russia and Russia).
If we talk about how you name the persons it is 98% the same.
Ethnic group = part of the population in a society speaking the same language, sharing the same attitudes, behaviors, mental traits, etc. as a product of the common cultural origin and tradition. - From Fr. Ethnic, lat. ethnic. You pretend that you had totally different.
Related ethnicity; proper to an ethnic group.
Related to the material culture of a people.
In my country traditionally we call our Ukrainian neighbors Russians.
Ruthenia and Russia are not the same thing.
It was called Little Russia only in the educated classes and in the official terminology of the empire. Ordinary people did not know this word at all and used the name Ukraine.
What "origins" can be in a disparate, multi-ethnic pseudo-statehood, with zero percent communication between them? There is not and cannot be any kind of "monolithism".
The Russians literally don't understand Ukrainian (Ukrainians Russian also, before the 20th century, but after the total Russification they know), and we have a completely different type of behavior; travelers and scientists wrote a lot about this in the 19th century in their books, and one of the most important such differences (what we can observe now, lol) is the penchant of Ukrainians for democracy and anarchy, while Russians are prone to authoritarianism and monarchy.
1. What country are you from?
2. Ruthenia NEVER referred to Russia. Ruthenia is the word used for Rus lands within Poland/Lithuania/Austria. At the same time the word Moscovia was used for current Russian lands.
3. Ukrainian language shares most similarities with Belorussian, followed by Polish, and only then by Russian.
4. If you deliberately call a Ukrainian person Russian while knowing where they are from, you can get punched in the face.
5. We might have some similarities with Russians because we were forcefully taught their customs. Eastern Ukraine was under Russian rule for 300 years. Western Ukraine for around 66. This is why Western Ukraine hates Russia more. We had less of their influences over time.
6. Ukrainian vs Russian mentality. See an important thing in our respective cultures is the idea of self-determination. Ukraine has it. Russia does not. See when Ukrainians don’t like something they go out and protest. When Russians don’t like something they say they can do nothing to change it. In all of its history, Ukraine has been fighting for freedom with short successes, albeit failing a lot. Russia has never known a time without autocratic rule.
"Ruthenia" is the Latinization of the Greek word "Rosia." The Byzantine Greeks called what's now Russia, Ukraine and Belarus "Rosia." All of it. In fact it was the Greeks that called the area around Kiev "Mikra Rosia" or Small Russia; and the area around Moscow with it's vast wilderness "Megali Rosia" or Big Russia.
In fact, as late as the 17th century, westerners referred to Muscovia as "Ruthenia." It won't let me post a link here, but I'd recommend looking up "Ruthenia" on Wikipedia. There you will find historical references to the area around Moscow and even the Russian far north and Caspian as "Ruthenia". Ruthenia very much means Russia. But the meaning/usage has changed over time.
Even The Encyclopedia of Ukraine, which has a nationalist bias, admits this in its article on the term "Ruthenia." As history went on, the term "Ruthenia" became more and more restricted.
Today there are 2 reasons why "Ruthenia" is used almost exclusively to refer to Ukraine, Belarus and Carpathia. 1.) Ruthenia is a Latin word, and the Catholic Church was the main space within which that name was used for the past 4 centuries, given their usage of Latin. The Rus they were talking about the most were the ones who were theirs: Uniates. 2.) Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian nationalists began to use the term Ruthenia as a distinction between the Rus who lived in the western territories that had been occupied by Lithuania and Poland, versus the Rus in the east who coalesced around an independent Moscow. It was a deliberate act of distinction using an already existent word, albeit under a new meaning. Muscovites were unlikely to call themselves by a Latin name. They opted for the Greek "Rosia" which became "Rossiya." Ukrainian and Belarusian nationalists viewed Lithuanian and Polish annexation as a positive occurrence, owing their nationalisms to those annexations/occupations, and were happy to use the exonym applied to them by their former masters.
@@GalicianGranddaughter666 I just try to clarify some aspects
I am from Romania, Bucharest, we took a lot of Ukrainian refugees although Ukraine loved us a lot, they called Romanian gypsies. Our people in Bucovina cannot be taught in their own languages and you cannot have 2 citizenships. Is this correct?
Ukraine wanted not so long ago to make a canal to destroy the Danube Delta (Danube Delta a place from Romania which is UNESCO World Heritage and where by the way the Bulgars of Asparuh moved and established a form of state),the destruction of the Danube Delta was to build a canal a decision based on selfish own interest (Bâstroe), UNESCO does not count. Sulina branch is also not to be used because by “mistake” a ship “Rostock” (check under what flag) made it impossible to use. What I write is my personal view.
Coming back to the issue I do not know so much about your history we are closer to the Serbian and Bulgarian. Serbs talk about the Battle between Serbinda and Indira. Serboi (3000 BC- 175 A.D.). White Serbia 370-600 A.D. According to them they split the PROTO-SLAVS into Antes and Slavs. Antes from the Dnieper river become Kievean Rus. One part of them splits and move down the Danube in Bulgaria and are conquered by the Bulgarian Turkic tribe. First to have Czars. And who had two empires.
The Slavs move west to Elba establish White Serbia following the German migration to the Roman Empire Alpes and spread south and the East. According to the legend there were two brothers Lech and Czech (the Polish and Czech). 562 A.D.-635 A.D. Serbs move to current place while Bulgars from Old Great Bulgaria located roughly where - the present day Ukraine is, moved to present day Bulgaria. The Serbs also had one Empire. But history is not so simple.
Regarding the sentence “If you deliberately call a Ukrainian person Russian while knowing where they are from, you can get punched in the face.” I understand that Ukraine wants to join the EU, and in such a case you have to politely bring arguments for your thesis, punch in the face is Russian style.
Amazing video. Since the invasion started I have watched numerous videos about Ukrainian history (I'm American), but none of them have come close to hitting the nail the way you did here. Really good information, many thanks. There is something about this war that makes me feel that truly understanding it and the history of Ukraine will open my mind to a deep sense of truth. There is more to the invasion than just Putin being a dick. The way that the world economic leaders profiteer the weapon deliveries to Ukraine and do essentially nothing to Putin for his actions (sanctions are a joke) does not sit well with me.
Out of curiosity, do you live in the US now? Your English is perfect, and I hardly detect any accent.
Thank you! I moved to the US in 2014 with my mom so that had considerable impact on my English proficiency. I have my grandpa still living in Ukraine all alone and refusing to leave. We have been visiting him every summer for about 1-2 months since then.
@@GalicianGranddaughter666 ahh ok that checks. I love that generation. We call them the Greatest Generation for a reason :) I wish him/you all the best!
@@creighton1766 Thank you! Same to you!
Дякую! Безмежно дякую!!!
рада що сподобалось 😊
4:14 Ruthenia is Galicia
If Stalin us the devil, whither the validity of his annexations to west Ukraine from several other countries in WW2 ?
None. Poland and Austria don’t get so much hate because, unlike Russia, they actually allowed Ukrainians to have some autonomy and never banned our language.
@@GalicianGranddaughter666 Then suppose they had not happened and those countries had still had their interwar borders at the time of Ukrainian independence. Czechoslovakia,,t approaching its break-up, still held the land called "sub-Carpathian Ruthenia" or "Carpatho-Ukraine". Poland still held Lviv and a region east of that Czech-held bit separating it from the rest of Ukraine. What would Ukrainians' view be of those lands having ended up outside your state? Would there be an Injustice feeling that your state should have them?
@@conscienceaginBlackadder Why should I suppose it didn't happen? If I suppose Russia fell apart, Japan would still have Kuril Islands, Finland would still have Karelia. All the "smaller nations" within Russia would be independent Chuvash, Chechens, Udmurts, Yakuts, etc. Kuban would be Ukrainian. Do you see any sense in imagining that?
What would be, would have been, doesn't matter. Ukraine is the way it is and Poland and other nations recognized our borders and support us. We gave up nukes in the 90s so that they recognize those borders. Russia keeps dreaming of expansion since it crawled out of the Moscow swamp.
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Thank you. Your acknowledgement made me smile. I am Galician (paternally). Paternal Descent.
Awwwww I’m glad. I just saw the flags on your avatar and I immediately thought good person ✨
I'm curious to ask about your ancestors during the 2nd World War. Did they fight? And if so then for who? Because I've heard alot of western Ukrainians volunteered to join nazi ss and police units. I'm wondering what you think about that.
Bandera and Ukrainian Insurgent Army were Nationalists not Nazis. Did you expect them to fight with Stalin after he intentionally starved 6 million Ukrainians to death?
Slava Galicia
i think alot of propaganda from this video
Such as?
I’m from Alabama in the USA which is considered one the most backwards, less educated places in the US. About a year ago, I watched the 8 part 8 hour long, Russian TV made history of Russia. Even I understood that Ukraine was an independent nation/region before Russia was even it’s own nation. This was long before Russia’s intentions was on the Western European and American span of attention. Regardless of who belongs to whom, the aggression against the civilian population that Russian soldiers are being encouraged to terrorize is just barbaric and morally bankrupt. In the US, we see the uncensored footage of 90 yr ladies being attacked by soldiers, children being bombed in buildings with signs visible from planes stating children are housed there, maternity hospitals bombed and the survivors own accounts of being raped and tortured by Russian soldiers. There is NO JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS EVIL. Ukraine has a right to self determination and they are willing to fight to the death for that freedom. Looking back at Russian history, what does Putin expect to accomplish here besides turning cousins against each other? The only way to not have a future society plagued by dissidents fighting is to win over the minds of the people or completely eradicate the people. It appears that Putin is going for eradication by destroying the towns in Ukraine it occupies. Why bomb elementary schools except to terrorize? They are not liberating anyone in Ukraine, they are destroying everything to begin anew with Russian citizens transported to exploit the resources. Putin can’t claim he is ending Nazism when his own soldiers under his command are the ones slaughtering innocent women, children and the elderly. It’s breaks my heart that Ukraine is suffering so badly and I pray for it’s people each night? I can’t help but imagine that if the everyday Russian people were truly allowed to see the footage of tanks firing at maternity hospitals, children and the elderly slaughtered in the streets, corpses of civilian old men with their hand sound bound their backs and shot in the head, the people of Russia wouldn’t be so complacent of what is happening. The only reason to outlaw coverage of the war is to hide the crimes the soldiers are committing. People in Russian like the elderly lady with the sign are jailed for just holding a sign that says war on it. If anyone is behaving like Nazis, it’s Putin. I just hope the people of Ukraine can continue to endure this hell and continue to assert it’s right to self determination. All Russia has done is send they few non NATO countries running to NATO to join. Before the war ignited, Ukraine offered to stay NATO neutral but Russia invaded anyway. Putin keeps moving the goal posts because he never intended to liberalize. If he is successful, he will just look to his next neighbor to exploit. My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Ukraine.
@@aliciahowell9617 Thank you for that! Exactly. Just exactly. Thank you for your compassion, interest, and support.
Sure you do, Peter. Russian news telling about Ukrainians being trained by gay instructors from NATO and using biological weapons through pigeons is your type of true info.
@@IEye-SR- I’m a bit confused. Do you think I’m the lady in the video? I’m in Alabama in the US. You lost the ability to persuade me to changing my viewpoint by starting your response by saying your grandmother would spit in my face if I called her Ukrainian. Perhaps my knowledge of Slavic history is lacking but my opinion of the war has been consistently reinforced based upon seeing how both sides have behaved in the last year. Only one side is purposefully bombing residential areas, women & children’s hospitals and designated shelters for the elderly and children. I am a Pediatric Trauma and Neonatal ICU RN so it’s fair to say the news coverage of dying pregnant women from a bombed out women’s hospital does especially affect me. I can’t imagine the trauma and devastation the victims of this war are trying to live through and pray for peace to come soon. I am curious if you have access to news not censored by the Russian government. Perhaps my knowledge on the history of the Slavic nations is lacking but I can easily recognize when people just want freedom to govern themselves.
The fact they use Sergey bogrov, a man who has been dead since the early 2000s his movie quote from брат 2 to use as a slogan to justify their invasion. I've been arguing with my russian friend over the identity of ruthenian identity, and you know they can never be wrong if they only believe their truth. Bc their truth is their power. Слава Украине
As an polish-ukrainian,i thank you for bringing information and not russian propaganda
@The Third Position ?
@@SlavicGugo looks like a fascist. Just ignore them.
Thank you so much ma'am. I knew there was more to the story but didn't know where to start looking. I really hope the invaders are pushed into the sea. Please stay safe you seem so nice 🙏😊🙏
Я не понимаю, где Данило Галицкий называл себя королём Рутении? Насколько я знаю, титул был "Король Руси, Король Руський".
Так по Українськи/ по Російськи. Папа Римський його іменував “king of Ruthenia” під чим він мав на увазі король Русі.
@@GalicianGranddaughter666ви українську знаєте?
Dude historical Ruthenia... Such as it is...is a small fraction of what is now Ukraine (aka Borderland)
u kraini means "in the country"
I’m sorry this has happened to you and your nation.
Ruthenia came from kievan rus just like Russia and belarus.
you should be grateful for the soviets, lenin actually created the modern borders of Ukraine, which involved giving away some Russian land for it.
belarus is Ruthenia just as much as ukriane
U hate russian imperialism, I hate all imperialism we are not the same
While I always say that Russia and Ukraine have a shared complex but interconnected history, I support Ukraine’s fight and condemn the illegal actions of Russia because of the fact that Ukraine has been its own state ever since the fall of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union and the fact that historical precedence does not mean claim in any way. So yeah Slava Ukraini!
I just hate the whole interconnected history aspect. Like okay so do Pakistan and India, Canada and US, hell even France and Italy with Charlemagne and all. Every country has interconnected history with others. Ukraine is no less interconnected with Poland in terms of it's history. The "brother nations" narrative makes me gag after seeing the atrocities in Bucha. Poles are our brothers, not Russians.
@@nevermean6126 well into emptiness you go... bye biatch
@@GalicianGranddaughter666 Russians as humans too, but their regimes not. Also FYI: Russians are also persecuted by their own people. Many of them who support you all are forced to silent or sent to jail, many of them left Russia, speech freedom is restricted, all independent medias closed. I understand about your feeling and many Russians seems like support war, but many other Russians are actually not but the problem is their own safety and stuffs. I bet if they see photo of Russian state war crime, they'll surprised and feel bad of it
Glory to Ukraine, freedom in Ukraine and Russia, free Russia from oppressors who oppressed Ukraine throughout history
@@tfn212 Yeah sure there may be 20% in Russia who don't support the war. That does not mean they are our brothers as a nation. That means that they have enough cognitive capabilities to see evil as evil. Sure, there's people like Illya Yashin who are jailed over this. But they are a minority. Russians overall have an imperialist mentality. They expect all people to speak Russian to them wherever they go. Georgia, Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia, Kazakhstan, etc. They will never have a Revolution like Ukrainians and Belorussians did because they are content being the way they are.
@@GalicianGranddaughter666 Don't forget, the minorities you mentioned other than protestors are VPN users and most of diaspora. If you say most Russians have imperialistic thought, mostly elderly and only believe mainstream medias there which are already controlled, since speech freedom there is persecuted, leaving Russian free medias have no choice but leaving Russia, and people who want unbiased news should access VPN. It's not simply like you said
Young people there who were born after fall of USSR often see Russia as positive free country with neighbouring countries as friends and brothers, until this recent years, when Putin is becoming more aggressive. Even, invasion to Ukraine makes them shocked
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Everything Russian which are good were Ukrainian, even Muscovy was Ukrainian state before they developed own power then becoming Russian Empire. I think they all should be returned to Kyiv, so the great historical Ukraine can be great onve again
Well when you say Russia you should clarify that you’re talking about the Russian government and the Russian official academics and all the other authority figures, and not the Russian common people. The Russian common people don’t care about any of this stuff. They just wanna be left alone to live in peace, and raise their families. You know there are many Russians, including some academics and researchers who claim that the true history of Slavic Russian people has been erased since the coming of Orthodox Church/Christianity, including the Christian pro-West dynasty the Romanovs who themselves were foreigners and not ethnic Russians, because very little Slavic Russian blood flowed through the veins of Romanovs have continued to erase the true past of ethnic Russians, and then after them came the stinking Bolsheviks who took up the baton from the Romanovs, and continued to erase Russian history and burn the books. Do you know the Romanoff member Peter the first hated everything native ethnic Russian, and so he basically reformed everything in Russia to mimic the west. He changed everything in Russia to mimic the west from the food, to the way people wore their hair, to the clothing/fashion, everything. He forced all of the men in the land to cut off their beard and long hair. All of this is public knowledge. Peter the first forced the women to wear western fashion, basically Russia started to copy France and other western countries. And during that time even the language in the aristocratic Russian circles wasn’t even Russian it was French German and other western languages. Again all of this is official knowledge. And I do not have any problems with people of any countries, any western European country or anywhere in the world. I’m not talking about the common people of any country I’m talking about the ruling powers of those countries. I know that the same thing happened to all indigenous people around the world, they were all forced to separate from their native indigenous roots, and accept a foreign identity and even sometimes language, traditions etc. Peter the first founded the Russian Academy of sciences in St. Petersburg, which he filled up with foreign scholars. Those are the people who wrote down Russian history of today. Russian Academy of sciences in its first stages of life had mostly foreign scholars and only just a few Russian scholars. Anybody can write down Russian history be he a German or a Jew as long as he’s not a Russian. This is when the official Russian history was concocted, driven by the Norman theory. You do know what Norman theory is right? Norman theory on which official Russian history is based proposes that Russian people got all of their culture and even language from the foreigners, from the Scandinavians. Again I have no problems with Scandinavian people I love them, I’m just explaining. It proposes the Russians were wild and primitive barbarians until Orthodox Church and Scandinavian Christian princes came over there and civilized them, and gave them their culture. A lot of Russian scholars today deny this Norman Theory, and say that the earlier princes of Russia were not Scandinavian in origins, but Slavic Russian. I’m talking about Rurik dynasty, etc… so there are groups in Russia who are fighting their own battle right now with falsified history.
The Romanovs were originally of Russian heritage until they married foreigners and it became the house of “Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov”.
We know hundreds of Russians who support this view. Some of them kill us now. Don’t tell the victim to be soft on her offender.
Ruthenian not Ukrainian
Make a video on how much great britan looted from other countries instead of saying morals to the world. West puppet😂😂😂