US Marine reacts to the History of Ukraine
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- čas přidán 25. 02. 2022
- Given everything currently going on in Ukraine, I figured the least I could do was educate myself on the history of the country
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83% Ukrainians now support Ukrainian language over russian, so that division is not relative anymore. russia did well for derussification of Ukraine with this war)
І звідки такі відсотки з російських новин!? Свою маячню залиште собі !
@@ntime5443 А в чому проблема? Ви ж українською розмовляєте?
@@Ukrainian_sun89 я просто довбойоб і неправильно прочитав те що ви написали 😂😂
@@ntime5443 хіх, ноу проблем)
@@ntime5443 та не кажіть так, просто неуважно прочитали)
Important note: just because many Ukrainians speak Russian, that does not mean most of them want to be part of Russia.
President Zelensky is a native Russian speaker, too.
Need to add, that many russian-speaking ukrainians still know and understand ukrainian
Exactly. I'm one of them. The most cynical fact is that they are mainly grinding russian-speaking regions of Ukraine. But if you know how they treat their own people, then no surprise they are doing all these terrible things in Ukraine. That's one of the reasons we don't want to be in russia, it's no good even if you are a russian.
Exactly
@@p0pka_enota I hear that argument about russian speaking regions a lot and this is actually cynical! So, if they were bombing mainly or only Ukrainian speaking regions, it would be in some say better?
@@marianemashkalo4182 in any way it wouldn’t be better. i’m from russian-speaking part of ukraine and the whole point is that russian-speaking people don’t matter to the task they wanna achieve.
you could think that ground is important then. but even the occupied regions are not needed. nobody reconstructed “Donbass” in this “8 year” state.
the whole thing is that they want our culture and our nation be a dead one.. simple as it is..
Forgot an important period. Kievan Rus - 9-13 centuries. And yes, Russia stole the name. At the time of its greatest power, Kievan Rus stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south.
Right, how could the creator of the video forget about such a big part of the Kievan Rus history?
@@marselinamar2913 Am 100%Sure You're Russian that's why you left like that HATEFUL COMMENT, you're the one who is a kid, get off this Site and quit writing people bull🤬shit!!! I know my Country History well compared to you even our Countries Separated it still belong to Us UKRAINIANS the Land so get over it!!!
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@@marselinamar2913 Київська Русь - стародавня Україна!
@@lermy5423 прекрасно, тільки там дівчина писала, якщо я пам'ятаю вірно її коментар, що історична українська територія тягнеться аж до Сибіру. А це вже перебільшення і вигадки.
"Kievan Rus" is just pure Moscow's narrative. There was Rus or Ruthenia with the capital in Kyiv and Grand Principality of Moscow with the capital in Moscow. The name was "stolen" by Moscow Tsar Peter I.
Can you imagine? It is like United States would start calling themselves Great Britain, and the country on island in Europe would be called London Britain? (c) Robert Ab
Чудове пояснення. Шкода, що у Вас мало лайків
And the map is wrong too, the shitty russian version. Because according to the available old sources of information, most "current russian" regions have never been a part of Rus.
I am from the Crimea, so I can confidently say that Russia has had a great influence on the eastern part of Ukraine, including through propaganda. Yes, it is true that many in eastern and southern Ukraine have identified themselves as Russians, but after eight years of ongoing war, and especially after a full-scale invasion, there have been far fewer such people.
We must not forget that the Russians have a tradition: in the territory they occupy, they exterminate the population, and instead import their citizens. 300 years of such a process makes itself felt. But now we are united as never before. Crimea is Ukraine, Kherson is Ukraine, Donetsk is Ukraine!
Doesn't matter what Russians identify.
Russia's supply chain speaks English.
I live on the eastern part and Ive yet to hear from somebody that he indefies himself as russian. But about the language its true, majority speaks russian in daily life.
@@noyooka2111 That "Russian" invented by a guy from Galicia in 1918.
The tradition show up pretty well in the war. But I agree with you.
How come that you are froim Crimea and forgot about the Civil war ? in reality you are not from Crimea and even if you are, maybe you dont saw anything in Ukraine that really happened ?
The Civil war in ukraine was like more first groups was fighting for the power when the new president was gone, then they forced donezk and lugansk in to a fight to what ever they was called (Ukrainian Military ?).
The people who try to defend ther Land was called Russian Rocker and biker and what ever. Or just Russians but people did not understood that this was people living in the ukraine and count them for real as Russians more then Ukrainians. Most of them came from the USSR Era.
Alot of them count themselfs as Ukrainians and russians ... dont even know how this must be if you grow up in the Soviet union and then had to be Ukrainian from one to another day.
But what you are missing is that the soviet union was over many decades and in this time people relate themselfs to russia even if the country change it's name.
I think the war in the Ukraine have to be stoped by Diplomacy and not by Guns because Ukraine will have no chance against Russia and we all know that Russia will not lose this war and even if they do, we will end up in a WW3 and then no one is safe anymore.
As people really belive Russia is using ther Military in Ukraine if they have to be prepared to fight the Nato 0.o yes of course they have no tanks left ahahaha how ignorant you must be ?
We dont know if Russia is Thinking the West will attack it as it was in Ww2 or if they want to attack the west.
All i know is that Russia is right, that the Nato is expanding to Russia and now is at the Russian boarders and as a Country that is shown as the vilian in the western media, i dont think they are thinking that the west is coming in peace.
I think clarification is needed about Holodomor, the thing is that it wasn't just an accidental famine, it was initially caused by the policies introduced by Stalin and when Ukraine couldn't fulfill the quotas for food production they started taking their food by force from regular people and introduced laws that would allow imprison or execute those who would hide food, when people tried to leave Ukraine to escape the famine, they were executed and buried in mass graves, things got even worse when Stalin feared that Ukrainians might rise against him. It got so bad, they had to make posters that told people not to eat other people. This event is considered a genocide in Ukraine and recognized as such by most relevant world powers.
in addition and to full context. Prior to holodomor, 5 years Ukraine was under process of "collectivization", generally taking private land and properties from wealthy peasants (so named "kulak") and unifying it to state owned "kolkhoz" where people were mandated to work. In Ukraine this process causes a lot of resistance, including rebellions and mass demonstrations (there were hundreds of distinct protests actions across 29-32 years). Holodomor ended it all, generally killing majority of population who were protesting against the collectivization.
@@PrystupaPaul thanks, a good addition!
true!! and there were actually few famines, only one is called holodomor, because it was the biggest one, other two (if i`m not mistaken) had some natural causes too, tho soviet government made some work there as well.
@@kkordyuk5871 Ті два інших голодоморів теж були не маленькі, але тільки один з трьох став відомий у світі. Причиною ж усіх був примусовий збір стандартної кількості зерна. Тобто, через посуху та неврожайні роки кількість збираємого зерна мала стати менше, щоб людям вистачило. Але влада навпаки зібрала зерно як у врожайні роки, можливо навіть більше. Таким чином влада намагалась приструнити наш народ бо ми були сильно проти свого знаходження у складі СРСР
ukraine comitted genocides against jews and polish peaople, also. They were more crule than the nazis.
I'm Ukrainian and glad to see foreigners trying not just support but also understand Ukrainians. This is pretty inspirational. Thank you for the video
i hope this fake country ceises to exist and gives back everything they stole from other countries.
Long live Ukraine, I am Northeast India, I love Ukraine people I wish I could help In this ongoing war
Western hamsters are learning history by cubes on a propaganda channel on CZcams.
@@rememberneverdie789 some random ruzzian speaking about "hamsters" and "propaganda". So ironic
@@maxk4471 Yes, ironically, how are things with the counter oink.
Before the war, I lived in the Sumy region in Ukraine. And I, like many of my friends and relatives, spoke mixed Russian and Ukrainian (this is called Surzhik). But I always considered myself a Ukrainian, and the "liberation" of Russia brought only death and destruction...
I am originally from Ukraine, now live in the Great Republic of Texas. One thing I can say is that Putin has achieved one thing for sure, those cities that were shown as being "pro Russian," after this invasion, not only consider themselves 100% Ukrainian, but they vow to never speak a word in Russian even again.
Definetely. Im from Kharkiv🤘Love my country now like never before 💙💛
@@Danyawa Your city is so beautifull 💙💛
@@NoOne-cj9rc Thank you very much!!!❤️ It is still beautiful 😪But has so many damage🥺🥺🥺🥺
@@Danyawa We will rebuild it together 🥲
@@NoOne-cj9rc 😊😊😊Thank you
this is actually a very relevant thing to do, it gives you an understanding of why russia and Ukraine never were and never will be the same nation. There is no such thing as a brotherly nation which russians like to proclaim. Its just a russian empire colonized Ukraine (as a lot of other nations) and tries to destroy its identity for already centuries
Im Ukrainian and I found the mistake: 10:31 in that time there was no word "russia", their country was called "moscovia"
name "russia" came later, when moscov king Peter first decided to rename his impire in order to stole Kiyevаn Rus's history, and say, that russia is the only descendant of Rus, and Ukrainians are not
I'm very impressed how those ukrainians are not giving up, they fight heroically. This is like a modern version of the Winter war
That's what I was thinking. A modern, and very urban version of the Winter War
Historically speaking it's really similar to Finland in WW2. Finland became independent in 1917 and was attacked 1939. Ukraine regained independence 1991 and was attacked in 2014. Both countries had 22 to 23 years between independence and war. Also, both countries had internal issues among population, and war seemed to unify the population.
@@juhoukkola2306 On the other hand Ukraine has had basically 8 years to prepare and reinvent their military, and they have recieved military training by NATO and massive weapons aid from the US and EU. They also have 10 times the population of Finland. So not entirely fair comparison.
@@me_too_thanks5062 but russia has ballistic and cruise missiles that could hit and they do any point of the country. They can destroy anything in any point of my country. So there is a difference. But again similar.
@@juhoukkola2306 Exactly. We're seeing "The Spirit of Winter War" as we call it here in Finland in full effect in Ukraine.
Hi, I'm from the Eastern Ukraine, and we are not identify ourselves as russians, we are Ukrainians. This map in video at 20th min looks like the result of russians propaganda or misunderstanding. Many of Eastern Ukrainians speak russian language, but Americans or Australians speak English. What it seams? Nothing. They are Americans and Australians. Thanks for video and good luck:) Слава Україні!
Totally agree as a Ukrainian. I see this map a lot in western and every time I feel puzzled. Like where this info even came from?
@@DariaChan Old Russian propaganda thing, even "Стас, ай как просто" used it to make his bullshit point!
Щодо російської в Україні..
Мій дідусь був репресований за те, що говорив українською. Багато людей були за це вбиті. Багато людей понаїжджало з Росії ще 300 років тому. Від страху перед покаранням та впливу росіянців дуже багато українців почали балакати по-москальськи теж.
I'm from Romania and I can't tell how many refugees I've come across up until now. I mean it tears up your heart seeing people who suffer, poor children crying.
We live in 2022 ...I didn't expect this to happen! 🥺😞
It truly is a unbelievable situation. I hope this war ends fast so no more innocent lives are lost. Nobody wins in a war, it is against everything we live for. Stay strong Ukraine.
@@Finnspeed Yes..:(
Starting to feel like 2020- is not going to be a great decade..
Thanks to your country that you accept our people. Just because of this we haven’t lost hope and trust in humanity. We will fight for us and for whole Europe and get peace to our countries 🙏🏼 I promise we will remember what you doing for us!
@@Annk_v hey sweetheart! I'm glad that we could do something for our neighbors!🙈🥰.
I mean it will be nice meeting you one day and cover this topic largely
I am incredibly grateful to everyone who spent a little of their time to learn the history of Ukraine! Thank you guys! ❤️ This knowledge explains a lot about what is happening in Ukraine now. And with the help of this knowledge, a person can distinguish real information from Russian propaganda (which, like Nazi Germany, likes to play the role of a victim)
One thing I can say for sure - No matter what language we speak in Ukraine, what religion Ukrainians have, from East to West, from North to South, everyone is fighting for the independence of our country. If anyone hears otherwise, it's a lie.
P.S. As a person from Eastern Ukraine, I cannot imagine that we can be torn away from Western Ukraine. And as my friend from Western Ukraine says - my heart hurts when something happens in the East. Because we are One and Inseparable 💙💛
my relatives suffered from the Soviet regime. which side do you think i will support? All the more so, my grandfather was a Lithuanian partisan - a participant in the Freedom Fights, he was deported and there he agreed with the members of the Ukrainian OUN-UPA the best of all deportees. my dad served in afghanistan (against his will) their sergeant was a great guy from zhytomyr and now he only remember with good words what guy. My country Lithuania once fought for its independence in 1991 and the Soviets shed the blood of unarmed civilians on our side were the Ukrainian Yellow-Blue flags. You are brothers to us. Slava Ukraine!
@@someonewhosupportukraine Heroiam Slava 💪🏻
@@someonewhosupportukraine thank you, friend. Ukrainians really appreciate the help that we are given.
PS. Sorry for our jury on Eurovision, we'll definitely make them a bunch of problems(I mean jury).
There are some questions, but I really didn’t like the part about the ‘lost buffer’ between NATO countries and Russia. It’s been a talking point in Russia state propaganda for years to justify their aggression and is a complete bs. Russia had been already bordering several NATO states before the invasion (now there will be 2 more but they are not planning to invade those, are they?). Russian invasion of Ukraine has never been about NATO. It’s about the very existence of independent Ukraine. Russia claims Ukrainian territory as its own, people living on that territory be damned. It is genocide spread in time, series of wars and annexations. With the territory Russia wants to claim Kyivan Rus history. Why is Kyivan Rus history omitted in here? it’s very important. Because Ukraine inherits it, not Russia, and they know it.
There's a Finnish poem from 1919 that summarises the situation as follows:
(my personal attempt to translate the poem to english, so it's not word to word, as that would make little sense in english)
At the dawn of new age we prosecute thee,
Ukraine, Poland, Finland and Estonia.
This passion engulfs also Latvia and Lithuania,
see we all share a common hell on earth.
We demand to know the real limit to brutality,
that our cunning enemy has tried to define.
See, Moscow cheats and deserves this all,
and will continue to do so, until they fall.
- Eino Leino 1919, The Grain of Freedom
Original:
Kuin syyttäjät seisomme aamussa ajan,
Ukraina ja Puola ja Suomi ja Viro,
tuli tuiskavi myös Lätin, Liettuan pajan,
yks meillä on yhteinen tunnus ja kiro,
me selvän nyt vaadimme raakuuden rajan,
kuin lieneekin valtioviekkaus sen siro,
näät Moskova pettää, on pettänyt ennen,
ja pettävi tuhanten vuosien mennen!
- Eino Leino 1919, Vapauden Vilja
oh wow. I'm originally from Ukraine and never heard of this poem. thanks a lot for sharing it! and the writer couldn't say it better, really. a hundred years passed, but this verse is still very accurate nowadays.
The greatest Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called the Russian empire "the prison of peoples, where everything's quiet on all tongues".
So true 💔
Support the Ukrainian Armed Forces!🇺🇦
Слава Україні!
@@user-mq7xl7yy4d Героям слава!
Thank you so much for the video. Showed it to my son (who was born in America) so he can learn the history of his ancestors. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦💙💛🇺🇸
There`s a lot more to it if you dig deeper. Within last 250-300 years there were a lot of restrictions to educating, whiting in ukrainan etc. A lot of poets, writers, composers, sculptors were shot or repressed by the authorities at the time. That`s how they tried to erase ukrainian cultural legacy and that`s how they are trying to do it now.
ukraine did the same with romanian, moldovan, hungarian nationalities within ukraine.
@Teodora how ukraine was able do that if we got Independent only like 30 years ago? Russian empire was trying to make all of us that grey stinky mass like they is. Drunk angry ppl without identity
@@teodora7219 Source?
@@georgetheconqueror2574source, trust me bro
Loved this video, it was very educational. I stand in solidarity with the Ukrainians at this unbelievably harsh time for them, to the Ukraine armed forces fighting the good fight, give um hell and never surrender, godspeed. SLAVA UKRAINI :)
I am Ukrainian and I condemn the authors of this cartoon. Shame on the creators of this cartoon. Because although they present themselves from the pro-Ukrainian side, much of the story in this cartoon is presented in a distorted form. The authors of the cartoon simply broadcast Kremlin propaganda and Kremlin manipulations, without even realizing what they are broadcasting. I don't know if the creators of this cartoon are really pro-Ukrainian people or just pretend to be pro-Ukrainian. But most likely, they are really pro-Ukrainian people who do not know the history of Ukraine and evaluate many events and facts in terms of Kremlin propaganda.
Thank you for your message. Do you know the truth, I would love to hear it if you do, I would like to be more informed with what is true and right as opposed to potential propaganda, I want to learn. :)
@@blazingtyphoon3821 My level of English is bad, so I can't claim to be a history teacher for an English-speaking person. But, I will explain the main Kremlin manipulations and Kremlin lies in this cartoon.
1. Zales’e - Залесье or Zalissya - Залісся or Zalissia (literally means "behind the forest", ie lands behind the great northern forest, which were separate from the territory of Kyivan Rus’ big forests, ie the lands of the Moscow principality by Mongolian empire - Московский улус, and then future the Moscow tsardom - Московское царство or Moscowia - Московия) were never part of Kyivan Rus’ as such. These were simply colonial possessions of Kyiv, not full-fledged territories within Kyivan Rus’ principality or Kyivan Rus’ kingdom - Королівство Київська Русь чи Князівство Київська Русь. Kremlin propagandists are trying to disprove this fact not just like that. Kremlin propaganda calls Moscow the center state of Rus’, even though the state was called Kyivan Rus’, and despite the fact that city of Moscow founded after Kyivan Rus’ lost its eastern possessions and colonial control over the land of Zalissia, giving way to an invasion of troops nomads from the east. That is, city of Moscow emerged in the lands of Zalissya only 200 years after Kyivan Rus’ lost these lands as its colonial possessions. It is the same if modern India declared itself the true center of England, only because once upon a time India was a colonial possession of the British Empire. Even the name «Russia - Россия» is a Greek version of the word «Rus’ - Русь». That is, Moscowia even appropriated the name of Kyivan Rus‘, but not directly, but using a detour through borrowing from the Greek language. That is why modern Moscowia calls itself «Russia» and not «Rus’», although it claims to be the successor to Kyivan Rus’ and its main center. But what is the capital of the state that mysteriously emerges several hundred years after this state ceased to control the lands where this "capital" arose ?? And what kind of state is it that even in its name uses a word from a foreign Greek language, and not its own words?
2. Another manipulation is that Moscowia tells tales of «Ukraine's reunification with Russia in 1654». First, the name "Russia" Moscowia appropriated only in 1721, and at the time of 1654 this state was called "Moscow tsardom or Moscowia". So how can there be a "reunification of Ukraine with Russia"? And given that Moscowia stole the name "Russia" from Kyivan Rus’, this "reunification is nonsense in general, because it's the same as announcing the reunification of France with Gaul, or the reunification of Italy with the Roman Empire, or the reunification of Turkey with Byzantium. Also, the Ukrainian Cossacks State, led by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, signed the Pereyaslav Treaty with the Moscow tsardom not on Ukraine's accession to the Moscow tsardom, but on a military alliance between Ukraine and the Moscow tsardom. Moscowia immediately violated this agreement, and therefore, even as a military alliance, it is not valid. However, Moscowia is still trying to manipulate the Pereyaslav Treaty to claim its rights to Ukrainian lands. However, Moscowia does not even have the original agreement. There is only a dubious copy, and the original "disappeared without a trace and is unknown where," according to the Kremlin. What kind of contract is this, even if there is no original?
*There are still a lot of Kremlin lies and manipulations in this cartoon, but my level of English will not allow me to tell about each of them. And the text on this can take several books, so I will end the story with only a cursory overview of these two problems, which I described above. Because these two problems are the most important in the Kremlin's lies. I don't know whether the authors of this cartoon intentionally broadcast Kremlin fairy tales or whether the authors simply taught history poorly, but the fact that there are Kremlin fairy tales in this cartoon is quite obvious and indisputable.
@@blazingtyphoon3821
P.S. I think you noticed the similarity of the formation of the names «Kyivan Rus’ principality or Kyivan Rus’ kingdom” and «Moscow principality or Moscow tsardom ». It may seem to you that both states were named after their capitals. This is exactly the version that Kremlin propaganda seeks to promote, while distorting artificial names that have never existed in the historical arena of the world: «Moscowian Rus‘, Vladimiro-Suzdalian Rus’» and the like. However, the truth is much more complicated. Look at Saudi Arabia. This country is named Saudi after its founder, named Saudi. Similarly, Kyivan Rus’ is called «Kyivan Rus’» not from the name of its capital, but from the name of the founder of this state, who was called Kyi. He had two other brothers named Shchek and Khoriv, as well as a younger sister named Lybid. It was these people who founded the city of Kyiv and started the existence of the state of Kyivan Rus’. There is now a monument to them in Kyiv, and two microdistricts in Kyiv are named Shchekavytsia and Khorevytsia, and a small river called Lybid flows through the city, which flows into the huge Dnieper River, the largest in Ukraine. While, the Moscow principality or tsardom is simply the name of the state from the name of its capital.
P.P.S. At the beginning of its foundation, Kyivan Rus’ was a princedom, and later became a kingdom. At that hour, like Moscowia from princedom, it turned into a tsardom. It is possible, for you, there are no words, however, I can say that in the kingdom, the simple population can have more rights and freedoms, but in the tsardom, the power of the tsar is unbounded and it is not possible to surround the nobles and ministries.
@@faidh8 100%. Дураки, невігласи - знахідка для ворога.
Thanks from Ukraine, this video was interesting to watch:) There's one thing I'd like to add to the story: the war in Ukraine started in 2014. The situation with 'pro-russian' quazi-states DNR and LNR (parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the east of Ukraine) would have never developed into such if not for russia's financial and military support: they sent russian soldiers with weapons so they burst this conflict out and spread it further over the area. Ihor Girkin, russian FSB officer who played a key role in the annexation of Crimea by the russian federation, and later the war in Donbas as an organizer of militant groups, said that if they hadn't come to Ukraine, Donbas war would never have happened because even pro-russian locals never wanted it and weren't ready for it. And now terrorist russia has started a full-scale war, and our hearts are breaking every single day...But it will never break our will for freedom and independence! Because we are Cossacks' descendants and
russia is going to be destroyed by us. Slava Ukraini❤ Glory to Azovstal heroes🇺🇦 Hugs to all people out there who support us and believe in Ukraine!
the only quazi state is ukraine.
Героям слава!
I got to say, Its refreshing to see someone wanting to actually learn about the history of Ukraine. Really appreciate you. If you are into books there is a good one on the Holodomor called Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum. It was a part of history that had been denied having happening by the Russians - the irony is, that today denial seems once again to be present, only this time more visible to the western culture. Thanks for learning and sharing. much appreciated
Great video! Glory to Ukraine from Belarus 🇺🇦🇪🇺
I was quite worried in the beginning, but after seeing how things develop after the critical first 3 days and beyond, I am extremely hopeful for Ukraine. At this point no matter what happens, Russia basically cannot win. The Ukrainian people are extremely motivated and aide from the west is increasing all the time. In Russia the domestic situation is also unsustainable and the longer things go on the better things come for Ukraine.
You should watch the documentary “Winter On Fire”. It’s about the Maidan Uprising in 2013-14. It’s amazing and really shows the spirit of Ukrainian people and their goal of independence.
SLAVA UKRAINI🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Героям Слава
@@solared росіяни впадуть
🇦🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇦🇺
@@stefmiles4755 you're a right сunt, innocent people are being killed in the streets and cities are being bombed.
Героям Слава! 🇺🇦
This is the story not only of Ukraine, but also of Belarus, with which we have very good relations in Ukraine. For many years we consider ourselves fraternal peoples, but the President of Belarus Lukashenko has become Putin's puppet. But we are very pleased that the people are against this war and some Belarusians are establishing their battalions to fight Russian aggression
Hello! I am a former Russian-speaking Ukrainian.
I was born in Lviv, but my father's relatives were from Belarus, so the first language I learned was Russian.
I speak Ukrainian, Russian and Polish perfectly, in the middle of the family, I used Russian, with friends and other people - Ukrainian.
After the full-scale invasion, I completely switched to Ukrainian (although my family still speaks Russian), because of this, I constantly quarrel with my mother and brother.
Later, I broke off relations with my father's family, because I began to feel the maximum disgust for the Russian language.
Thank you for your attention. Glory to Ukraine.
Тримайтесь. Це морально тяжко може бути, але це правильно імхо.
My ukrainian friends that live in Mariupol and speak russian still think them selfs as ukrainians
Are they fine?..
@@sul8579 as far as i know atleast one has managed to come to finland with her daughter but from others i havent heard from for 2 weeks
Whilst insignificant compared to what is happening now I was in Rome last year for the England v Ukraine Euros quarter final and I have nothing but good things to say about the Ukrainian fans their to support their team, they sang their hearts out all match despite being heavily beaten and then joined us to party after the game, I can’t help but wonder where the ones I talked and drank with are now, thinking about them and all Ukrainians🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
I learned a lot, thank you 🙏🏻. I’m 46 years old (Swedish) and what was taught about Eastern Europe way back in school had mostly to do with WWII and The Cold War. I definitely need more history lessons… Western and Eastern Europe have merged through the recent decades but tbh, I still don’t know very much about the Eastern parts.
Yeah, my teacher didn’t spent too much time talking about what happened to the Swedes in Poltava. 🤷🏼♀️ lol
@@jenka_79 I’m actually quite bad at Swedish history as well 😬. Or maybe I was just a poor student 🤷♀️. I only remember different wars and briefly digging into stuff like the Roman Empire, ancient Greece and so on…
@@petragrevstad2714 I loved and still love history. I was the “history geek “ in the class, only highest grade. 🤓 But I was cool with the rest of my amazing classmates. 😎
@@petragrevstad2714 I am Ukrainian and I condemn the authors of this cartoon. Shame on the creators of this cartoon. Because although they present themselves from the pro-Ukrainian side, much of the story in this cartoon is presented in a distorted form. The authors of the cartoon simply broadcast Kremlin propaganda and Kremlin manipulations, without even realizing what they are broadcasting. I don't know if the creators of this cartoon are really pro-Ukrainian people or just pretend to be pro-Ukrainian. But most likely, they are really pro-Ukrainian people who do not know the history of Ukraine and evaluate many events and facts in terms of Kremlin propaganda.
@@faidh8 I’m sorry to hear that 😟, it’s a shame you can’t trust anything these days. I’m not used to propaganda the way Russia uses it. And since I don’t know anything about Ukraine before, it didn’t cross my mind at all that the information could be distorted or untrue 🤷♀️. Thank you for clarifying 🙏🏻, I’ll be more aware when watching videos like this.
Just to join the dots here regarding your reverence for 22 SAS; they are in Ukraine in support of, and training the Ukrainian army's special forces!
Do you mind me asking we're the reference to 22 SAS is?
Hi! I am from Ukraine and just want to say thank you for this video!
I always wanted that the whole world realise that we are not russia, we are not part of russia and we never were by our desire! We have common history and as you see it is not good: for all centuries russians killed ukrainian people and made a real genocide, like holodomor (literally each family in Ukraine suffered from holodomor).
So we want to leave it in history and live our independence life with our democratic principles, with democratic countries. And I am sure that we will. This is the last war with russians, because they will not ever be able to conquer and enslave our nation.
Moreover, you can check what russians did with Moldova, Georgia, Chechnya, Belarus and so on. All of these nations suffered and suffering now because of russians and their policy.
Thanks for supporting! We will never forget what our friend-countries doing now for us. We fight for our freedom and for peace in the world!
I have travelled alot working & have friends in Kyiv & there spirit is amazing & honourable beyond measure, I very much hope that this will be short lived & not the next world war but if it is we will stand, we will fight for the freedom the last generations laid there lives down for 💜🇬🇧🇺🇦
There is an error in the original video and accordingly in your reaction. Despite the prevalence of the Russian language, most people have always identified themselves as Ukrainians in the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine. This is too loud and dangerous a statement that someone there thought of himself as a Russian. No, people just spoke Russian because of Russification. And in the younger generation, this began to change rapidly. I am from Mykolayv and my whole family are patriots and Ukrainians, though they were Russian speakers before. In addition, many people are simply bilingual, and now even more so many people choose Ukrainian as their main language. Thanks for learning about our history!
And one more mistake btw, "Kyiv" is not "Kiev"
14:00 The Black Sea is connected to the Mediterranean, through the Bosporus, the strait of Istanbul. A massively important natural feature that has lead to so much conflict through the ages due to the control it allows over trade and military power.
Thanks for sharing this.
😎🤙
Slava Ukraini!
Interesting fact East Slavic Russia came up with it because it has nothing to do with the word, because Ukrainian and Belarusian are very similar, and Russian is more similar to Serbian and Bulgarian, as Russian is artificial and was created on the basis of Old Bulgarian, Ukrainian is more similar to Belarusian, Polish and Slovak than with Russian
well, truth be told - all languages are artificial and natural simultaneously, and in fact it's a faulty concept, languages are living breathing constructs which constantly influence each other under the use by people thus making them natural, but since they are made by humans - they are all artificial
@@nivalius no, artificial languages are those that are created by one person at a time, not artificial ones that are created by peoples over hundreds of years where the word has a logical meaning and is a derivative word
@@Hardcore0 exactly, that's why russian, no matter how one can feel about it, is not an artificial language
@@nivalius no, that's why it is artificial, on a par with Esperando, as in the Russian Empire they spoke different languages, and kings and queens in German or French, the task was to create a language for all, then took as a basis Old Bulgarian and Smotritsky's grammar Kiev, studying the Russian language, you can see that the words have no origin and logic, and some words replace many different words, and those who know the languages of Turkish families can recognize many Turkish words that have absorbed Russian
Hey, combat arms channel! Its nice watching all your videos when they pop up, and you provide some interesting content to watch, and educating! It was also nice to hear about you mentioning Ukraine along with the history of the area! Its scary times ahead, hopefully a peaceful solution comes of this situation. I feel like Russia has not changed much since the fall of the USSR though and wants what it has lost back. My heart goes out to those in Ukraine and I hope they hold on!
Thank you for spreading this to the world and for getting to know our history. We (Ukrainians) really appreciate that. We will win. Peace 💙💛
This is a very nice move. Taking a look at the history of the country to better understand what led to the events of today instead of blindly talking about a conflict the background of which is unknown. Good choice. Sevastopol in Crimea is Russias only warm water port but their access to the Med is still controlled by the Bosporus which yes, is by default open to all but in reality controlled by Turkish navy. To answer the question of national division then yes, it is more or less like that. Most important thing we got from the video is that no matter the territory or the borders, there is a nation that is united in culture and history living on a piece of land they call home. And for that reason they are willing to protect it.
Well said 🤙
It should be noted that part of Ukrainian society considers itself friendly to Russia, while another part aspires to Europe. Neutral status was the best option, but the pro-Western government of Ukraine made a serious mistake by pulling the blanket over itself and it tore the country apart. Russia saw these actions as a real threat to itself.
@@NameRiioz not true. I'm saying this as Ukrainian
@@NameRiioz lol what. literally very few people wanted "to be friendly with russia", the revolution of dignity in 2013-2014 actually happened because our pro-russian president stopped aiming for friendship with europe and wanted to change the route to russia again, people hated it and showed it. there never was a "threat" to russia and russia knows it too, they're just playing a victim as always. pathetic.
@@NameRiioz In a sense, you are right, but back in 2014, most pro-russian politicians fled from Ukraine, leaving only "shadow" pro-russian politicians who denied that they had anything to do with russia, but in fact they lied. But even such a fifth column was destroyed about a month after the war, and there are no more pro-russian parties in Ukraine as such. And after the orcs came to us, there are no more people left in Ukraine who still treat russia well.
So glad your covering this!!
Thank you. Learned a lot. Impressed by the civilian Ukrainians who remain, determined, preparing for battle this morning. Now I know, not strange with their history, they are tough! Strength and endurance to all Ukrainians. Hope there will be peace as soon as possible.
For those who don't know from native ukrainian girl
4:35 - not Kiev(it is russian language) but Kyiv
20:20 - yes, half of Ukraine speaks russian and second half - ukrainian. i'm from Lviv(west) and my heart is crying and screaming in agony because of this. I'm happy that now many people are changing their positions and trying to speak our mothertongue☺
Russia for us is absolute evil for everything it had done and is doing to us... but i hope and i know that there are good russians, but a very little group of them...😞
I think that I have no right to complain, 'cause our people who suffered from this war much more then me are in much more pain, but I want to tell what hurts most of ukrainians...
In 2014 I was 10 and didn't understand much, but during those situations with Crimea and especially with Donbass... imagine how would you feel if during 8 years of your childhood every week(about at least 2-3 times a week) when your parents are watching the news you are sitting in another corner of the room, but still you can hear the journalist that shows you what is going on in the Donbass, you can hear loud explosions and shots and some sort of whistle... and the saddest part of the report is announcement of information about the dead... from 18 to 45 years old and more... but in most 18-25 years old... and you - little girl/boy hear that such young people die because someone like an abusive ex - doesn't want to let us go... because he wants the USSR 2.0... 😭
We are tired. Physically and mentally. We're exhausted!..😫😩 Like my history teacher said:"If you think that if you're just a children and don't understand what's going on or it doesn't influence on you in any way - you're wrong. Because you are besides your parents when they watch TV and you can hear about terrible things and deaths(you know, like, who won't understand how terrible is the situation if people are dying because of unnatural reasons?). You're our future and you're tired from all this too - mentally. It breaks your psychics...". And, you know, i've always been that kind of a person which think about the problem which i heard before. And in my childhood I was always thinking of problems in the whole world, like: disaster, forest, hunger, poority and, of course, our own situation with Crimea and Donbass😫😩. And I didn't and don't want this all. You know, it's like when you think about it but can't do anything 'cause you're a child or you don't have the possibility, at least at this moment...💔 and, you know, I don't know if this exists in other countries but we, for example, have some dummy things when we can make a wish: when eyelash falls by itself you have to take it, make a wish and swell on it as strong as you can; there are one flower - lilac🌺 - and it has 3-4 petals but for wish you have to find one with 5 or even 6 petals, make a wish and eat it😅 and, in most, I wished that there may be peace in the world and that all people were well... my wishes turned on the separate way... I'd never thought that I'll live through the war... vile and cruel, with hypocrisy and lies at every turn... I go crazy when Russia lies all the time and I compare information from our side and theirs...😫 and I see so many incredibly brazen lies... like: our military forces are killing our own civilians... our forces are using civilian as a live shield... and the only thing that helps me is our people who don't give up and show us how strong we are, show us very funny and cool moments...☺😎 I'd always been proud of our nation🤗 and hoped that one day we'll be popular, but not this way...😣
Wishing everyone who read this: all the best🤗, much health💪 and wealth🤑💵, be happy😁 and know that everything will be ok😉. There was one riddle: many people went to the beach🏖. And there was a stone with something written on it🪦. Poor were happy after reading this🤩. Rich were unhappy😣. And lovers were breaking up🙍♀🙍... what was written on the stone?
The answer is: everything is temporary⏳... you know, as some people say black🖤 and white🤍 stripes in life: after white🤍 goes black🖤 and vice versa🔁🔄... ❤💙💛
Sorry if I'd written something wrong, it is a bit hard for me, 'cause my level of English is almost Intermediate (B1)😅❤
💙💛Glory to Ukraine! 💙💛
💙💛Glory to heroes!💙💛
💙💛Слава Україні!💙💛
💙💛Героям Слава!💙💛
Every city slicker in Ukraine speaks Russian.
my condolences goes to the ukrainians and the russians who dont want war
you shold go to the russian media or watch tv programms to understand how 83% of russian "dont want war".
всі росіяни хочуть війни
мені сьогодні 5 раз побажали смерті росіяни за те що я українка
Recent social polls have shown that ~80% of Russians want war. And they want Ukraine to cease to exist as a state and a nation as a whole.
@@user-ge2yl6ct5l так ,нажаль західні люди не знають ,хто такі росіяни і що вони за народ
I often watch these animations. They explain things in a way that is easy to understand
The "thing" why black sea and Crimea is so important to Russia is the Istanbul canal and te Bosporus way. Turkey owns both and it's the only way to the Mediterranean seas. There is six nations, six coasts, that share the shores, and taking them one by one is the end game. This might age like a milk, but we'll see.
it hurts so much that after so many years we're still can't be left alone. our history is full of pain and sufferings, mostly thanks to our dear neighbour russia, that's so unfair. however, we never gave up and we won't give up this time, too. all the world will see how strong we are
Great video! Very educational, showing a very complicated history.
Both, the historical and reaction video are great job! Thank you.
Wanted to comment on some inconsistencies but after seeing the comment section I just want to say that I'm proud to be part of this new generation of Ukrainians. It's going to be hard but we are only getting stronger. Day by day. Very important time in Ukrainian history and I am sure everyone who fought for Ukraine either with arms or with a pen throughout centuries would be proud of us just the way we are proud of them. Слава Україні!
Big thank you to author of this video for helping to keep Ukrainian situation relevant in such hard times!
Thanks for your work. The Ukrainian people are thankful to everyone who stay with us now, we will not forget this!
Good work sharing knowledge! It is a small effort but many small efforts have a heavy weight together
good video Theo, thumps up 🤙🤙👍👍
my respect to you for acknowledging that your safety is a privilege and trying to understand the context of our country's history before assuming anything. really this is something not many people do, especially westerners, so mad respect to you for that!
One thing about the Black Sea is that it gives you access to Danube, which is the biggest river in Europe stretching all the way to Austria. Basically it's a naval trade route to half the Europe.
Great topic...Great to educate qnd Support our friends
These are very sad - and worrying - times. It's hard to imagine that Ukraine will return to being an independent and democratic nation for the foreseeable - and indeed the unforeseeable future. And we in the west have only got ourselves to blame that this has happened. I can only speak for myself as an ex member of the RAF, but when Communism collapsed in Russia in 1991 the British government saw only a "peace dividend", and having decided that the armed forces were a luxury they couldn't (or didn't want to) afford, set about the wholesale dismemberment of the forces both in terms of equipment and manpower. After all we'd just "won the cold war". Squadrons were disbanded, aircraft were sold or scrapped, Air Bases were closed down. Ships were sold or scrapped, regiments with long and proud histories were disbanded or amalgamated. All three services underwent swingeing cuts in terms of manpower. Does the government in this country ever learn the lessons of history? Twice in the 20th century we were caught unprepared, but the warfare and weapons back then plus the fact we are an island, was very different to the scenario we have today, and we had some time to strengthen before things really got going. All we hear from politicians these days are glib statements about "sharpening the teeth whilst trimming the tail" etc, does Boris think that a snap of his fingers will restore our armed forces back to a position equivalent to their standing in 1990? It ain't going to happen, and now we see the folly of those decisions. When Russia abandoned Communism, there was a period of instability and flux, and then Putin came on the scene. Here was a man high up in the KGB, at the heart of the the communist regime - who apparently was no longer a communist??? Nothing in that country has really changed since the October revolution in 1917, they still don't trust us in the west. Putin has watched and bided his time, he's seen the gradual reduction in the West's various militaries, he's noted that we in Europe aren't all exactly singing from the same hymn sheet and he's watched Europe's ever increasing dependency on energy from Russia. And now he's decided to act. The defence budget is never "flavour of the month" particularly with those on the far left, it always seems like you're spending a lot of money for nothing in return, but you cannot ever compromise on the security of the nation, whether we like it or not the money has to be spent. My heart goes out to proud Ukrainians everywhere, but I fear that their nation will be lost for a very long time.
There is hope for Ukraine. Canada has sent CSOR to Ukraine to help, and so many other countries are also trying to help Ukraine.
you don’t know Ukrainians well, Stalin killed many millions of Ukrainians, but in the end they made their country.
@@igornovik8499 They are a bunch of bad asses.
Don't worry, we stand just fine✌ They might shoot some more missiles at us, but at this point everyone's certain Ukraine will be victorious!
Thanks for your service buddy.
Thank You ! A good history lesson on Ukraine. Keep up your Very interesting shows, I’ve enjoyed almost everything you put out, (99%). 👍. God Bless you Sir. ✌️🏴.
Awesome vid!
As the video rightfully said, Eastern Ukraine speaks russian due to 300+ years of bans on Ukrainian language and this slowly changes. It does not make those people pro-Russian. My dad (may he RIP) spoke Ukrainian first in a village as a kid (in USSR in Eastern Ukraine), then he went to Kharkiv to the university to study physics, all was in russian of course. So he spoke russian, became a nuclear physicist and a professor. He never forgot his roots and was very strict and strong yet I saw tears in his eyes when he read my poem in Ukrainian. And I speak Ukrainian now, not russian. My kids will too.
Ukrainian language has been banned since 1863. How come 300+ years?
Привет из Запорожья! 🇺🇦💕
Привіт з Вільнянська🙃😅
Через таких, як ти, західні партнери і вважали нас частиною Росії, май повагу хоча б під західними відео писати українською, бо тебе скоро прийдуть спасати, я теж з півдня, мені вистачило російських ракет.
@@Artem-yq6mfрятувати*
@@muphl10n ні, вони саме спасатєлі, рятувати вони не збираються :) або асвабадітєлі, там вже за бажанням.
@@muphl10n але, якщо що, то спасати теж правильно, хоч рятувати і буде ближче до нас.
Thanks for your information support, man! ✌️
Thank you for covering this topic and educating people about what we are going through!
Love from Ukraine
So glad you're doing something on Ukraine! Wow third comment last time and this time first :) yes Russia is reprehensible, well said!
Same old Bolshevik devils shedding innocent blood.
WEF, Putin & Xi working to Dugin's Multipolar Eurasian plan (Masked Global Communist slavery)
The Western NWO is a decoy.*
"The Russian Federation and (Schwab's) World Economic Forum announced the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Russia."
-World Economic Forum
“Since 1989 the world has been told that the Soviet Union collapsed and that, except for several countries, Communism is dead and the U.S. won the cold war. The reality is quite the reverse. Everything we have seen since 1989 has been a massive and successful, multi-decade long deception strategy on the part of the KGB, the Soviet secret police. The Goal? To deceive the West and achieve the goal of Leninist strategy - a totalitarian world government or international police state."
**"The Sino-Soviet scissors strategy will give way to the strategy of one clenched fist"****
"Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of their predecessors and working towards a 'New World Order'. When the right moment comes the mask will be dropped and the Russians with Chinese help will seek to impose their system on the West on their own terms."
-Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn - The Perestroika Deception
Soviet Defector Anatoliy Golitsyn - New Lies for Old, 1984:
"A display of Sino-Soviet rivalry for influence in Europe may
be expected on the lines of the 'struggle for hegemony' already being
witnessed in South-East Asia. Its purpose would be to assist in the
creation of new, false alignments between communist and
noncommunist powers, and to break up the existing NATO structure
and replace it with a system of EUROPEAN COLLECTIVE SECURITY entailing
the ultimate withdrawal of the American military presence from
Western Europe and the growth of communist influence there."
“Mossad, it’s an old Russian school” - Juval Aviv
Dugin 2019 - Communist China is the model of 4th Political Theory:
"This is the conservative revolution, this is the Fourth Political Theory. China is interested in benefiting even from Chinese capitalism - for example, the oligarchs are burdened with large social and political obligations. That is, it is capitalism with social responsibility. Even if they have a state, it does not belong to them to the end - this is common to Chinese civilization. If they think only of themselves, they will fall out of the system. The local oligarchs are 'communist'” and partially fulfill the state’s duty. They are the 'managers' of Great China."
Dugin 2002:
“With Putin’s arrival the development of EURASIA received the green light. The process OF UNIFICATION OF RUSSIA & BELARUS has intensified, as initiated DURING THE REIGN OF YELTSIN.”
“The ruling Medvedev-Putin tandem is under B’nai-Brith & fulfils its will. In 1998, PUTIN & YELTSIN ORDERED ASSASSINATION of Gen. Rokhlin, who was organizing a revolt against corrupt Yeltsin.”
-EX DEPUTY PM POLTORANIN
Dugin(Putin prophet/A.Crowley disciple/Head of Eurasia project/Bolshevik)2000: “KGB to be the backbone of the Eurasian Renaissance. The main goal of the KGB' should be the implementation of the Eurasian Project."
Russian leaders you mean
Thanks for covering the topic.I stand by the Ukrainians (in these terrible times for that nation). Hopefully Putin STOPS this soon.Love from the UK
Thank you! Very good job.
It's cool video, because I'm from Ukraine. In village Stadnytsia Vinnitsa region, Central Ukraine. This video about Ukraine history very well and amazing and I'm feeling amazed and thrilled.
Those pro-russian regions in the east of Ukraine, that are occupied now were quite natively Ukrainian before Stalin. Soviets killed millions of Ukrainian peasants with artificial famine and than moved Russians to live in this region. That’s why lots of people there don’t think of themselves as of Ukrainians but rather like of Soviet people and thus are closer to Russia and it’s imperialistic ideas
Thank you for the video. Yeah, some part of Ukraine is russian speaking with russian ancestors, but like with Americans and their England ancestors it doesn't mean that they want to be a part of those country. Plus, after what happens in Mariupol and other Ukrainian cities, part of russian loyalists became largely smaller.
Greetings to Ukraine from Lithuania. Slava Ukraini!
You are the really good guy. Thank you a lot. Respect from Ukraine
This is an old video, but as a Ukrainian from russian-speaking region (Zaporizhzhya), after a year of the war, I could say - I knew Ukrainian language, but I spoke russian all the time. And now everything has changed - I still know russian, but I speak and will speak only Ukrainian. And I hope my children will speak Ukrainian, and will know russian, but this time for another reason (they have to know the language of an enemy).
Thank you for this video
Thank you!
Godspeed Ukraine!!
Thank you for your support!
Слава Укарїні!!
Thanks from Poland to all American Force Marines which try to help somehow in the Ukraine!
blue and yellow lets shake it up a little
I hope that in generations to come we all remember the resolve and dedication the civilian population of Ukraine has shown
In many ways (In my personal view) this conflict has shown just how incompetent NATO is there is far to much chin wagging going on with a lot of empty talk this is a country in Europe while they may not be a member of NATO we should be doing a lot more and should have been doing it before the civil population took up arms as an Englishman I want a government and country that will stand strong and on occasion will say screw NATO when they wont do enough nobody wants a large conflict across Europe but something tells me this wont be the end and only conflict Putin's Russia is far from complete and Ukraine is only one piece of the pie
The video about the history of Ukraine does not say one very important thing, which the Russians also always forget.
Russia - has nothing to do with Rus', Rus' was only one, and it was Kievan Rus'. The date foundation of Kyiv is 482, and Moscow was founded only in 1147 as a vassal, by the 6th son of the Kyiv prince.
The whole history of Russia is saturated with lies, from its name to which it has nothing to do, to its coat of arms (two-headed eagle), which was also stolen. True name of Russia is Moscovia the land of slaves. The only one country in Europe who kept their own citizens as slaves.
Свидомая логика и до иностранцев дошла.
@@user-mi7cm4hz6x yep, we all saw your new historic books where just remove part with Kyevan Rus'. So please stfu
I see there Yorkshire tea in the background. A man of culture.
Hi i just want to thank you for the info video its inlightening,i know of the cossacks as well when napoleon tried to take russia in 1812 and the winter came as he withdrew his plan and the frigid temperatures as he was on his death march back to france the cossacks rode and chiped off alot of napoleons soilders
The Cossacks are not allies of Moscow. The Cossacks sought an alliance with Moscow, Moldova, Turkey, and Poland itself, to defend their own independence. The party to the conflict, which at one time or another, offered a fairly equal union, became our ally. When our ally betrayed the agreement, we looked for another, and in the meantime strengthened our defense capabilities and sovereignty.
Slava Ukrainie 💙💛
it just makes me wanna cry bc my people has been through so much terror for centuries and yet it still goes on 💔
Oh! That is my native town at 6:29. Kamyanets-Podilsky!!!
Free Ukraine
Dniepr is navigable too. One of the major rivers of Europe.
Thank you for taking an interest and being open minded and happy to learn, very refreshing. Serhii Plokhy has great books in English on Ukrainian history.
To answer your question at 20:19 whether or not the "Russian" portion of Ukrainians still identify as Russian - I can answer that. I was born and grew up in Zaporizhia, a very Russian and completely Russian speaking city. My whole life I identified myself as Russian when people asked, but that all changed pretty dramatically in 2014. We all got a pretty rude awakening and realized that we're not Russian, and don't want to be Russian, we are Ukrainians first. Vast majority of Ukrainians that used to identify themselves as Russian no longer do that, and you can completely forget about it now in 2022, this is even true with other completely Russian cities like Kharkiv and Mariupol that Russian proceeded to bombard the most in this war. Everyone who was even remotely sympathetic to Russia now views them as fascist invaders, want nothing to do with them, and are actually fighting very fiercely against them. Ukraine's ties to Russia are broken for generations to come, even amongst those people who previously identified themselves as Russians.
Hello, I,m from Ukraine. It is very interesting that Russia attacked only russian speaking lands of Ukraine. Russian speaking lands of ukraine came from the holodomor, because ukrainian speaking people has died of hunger in that lands or were sent to Syberian jails not willing to give all their food to the soviet soilders. But empty homes were not empty for a long time because Soviet union settled russians there to replace ukrainian people. So nowadays Russia is killing east and south, those people whose grandparrents were settled into the homes of died from hunger ukrainians. This is hard to understand what is inside of their heads and what is the goal, because after that killing in the russian speaking lands even true russians in the east of ukraine want to learn ukrainian, they run west and hate russian troops.
I'm really glad you're providing educational content in favour of just looking at people getting killed like some people.
Putin and Mad Man Tactics have been said (fear works pretty well in many nations) by Mika Aaltola. He is a Finnish political scientist, associate professor and director of the Finnish Foreign Policy Institute.
"Aaltola earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Columbia University in Manhattan, New York. At the University of Tampere, he changed his major from Psychology to international politics and defended his doctorate in social sciences in 1999 [3] [4]. He is an associate professor at the University of Tampere and a professor at Tallinn University. [5] He served as a visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota from 2006-2008. He has also been a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, the University of Po and Johns Hopkins University".
That was awesome.
learned much.
I love history.
West V East history is complex.
Everything since WW1 has been a shoot show.
I will say this, Putin is the C word.
Only a fearful man gets to be head of the KGB & stays 4 as long as he did.
I can only imagine how much leverage he has over Russian citizens.
It's rumoured that Vlad even has a video of the former Pres that is unsavoury to say the least.
I think Putin is the most powerful man in the world atm.
TY for the vid.
It's Kyiv, not Kiev!
1:24 completely ignored the Carpatian mountains and the woods in the north...
By the way: cool reaction video