Five myths underpinning Russia’s chronic case of ‘Ukraine Denial’

[JayH]

Putin’s hybrid war in Ukraine is popular at home because millions of Russians continue to insist Ukraine is a manufactured nation artificially separated from Russia


POST-SOVIET IDENTITY: Five myths underpinning Russia’s chronic case of ‘Ukraine Denial’

Vladimir Putin is fond of declaring that Russians and Ukrainians are ‘one people’. It is safe to assume he does not mean all Russians are Ukrainians – instead, he is implying that Ukrainians are a component part of a broader Russian identity. He is not alone in this belief. Millions of Russians find it difficult to accept Ukraine as a sovereign state. Almost 25 years after the fall of the USSR, they remain inclined to view their neighbour as a manufactured nation artificially separated from Russia by the injustices of the Soviet collapse. Despite the passing of a quarter of a century since Ukraine declared independence, Russia is still in denial.   

Understanding the roots of this ‘Ukraine Denial’ is vital if we are to appreciate why Putin’s hybrid war in Ukraine has proved so popular among Russian audiences. It encourages Russians to view Ukraine as an essentially domestic issue, removing it from the realm of foreign affairs and positioning all international involvement as unwelcome outside interference. When seen from this perspective, Ukrainian patriots become ‘extremists’ and ‘traitors’, while notions of Ukrainian self-determination take on an explicitly anti-Russian tone. In its most virulent form, ‘Ukraine Denial’ embraces the belief that Ukrainian independence itself is part of a fiendish plan to undermine Mother Russia. 


http://bunews.com.ua/society/item/opinion-five-myths-underpinning-russias-chronic-case-of-ukraine-denial

And more history--
Ukrainians and Russians - two completely different people, two separate identities, and certainly not "Russian nation."

The myth of the brotherhood of the people of Moscow and Ukrainian

In 1861, Professor Mykola Kostomarov published his book "Two Russian nationalities" - a kind of attempt to describe the similarity of the Ukrainians and the Muscovites.

But the author has not tried all of his attempts to relate opposing both the spirit and the nations of origin to the desired result failed.

Rather than confirm the then and now popularized the myth of the similarity and the brotherhood of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, he finally dispelled it!

Kostomarov his book destroyed, hundreds of years old, created by Russian ideologists stable stereotype of half-Slavic origin of the Muscovites, and the Ukrainians, the myth of the similarity of the Horde, the Muscovite Russians and Ukrainians, Russ!

The work caused a sensation, but because of its objectivity has been popularized, and even today are aware of her unit.

But why mere words read themselves elected me moments from the book of Mykola Kostomarov from the work "Two Russian nationalities":

http://fakeoff.org/history/mif-o-bratstve-ukrainskogo-i-moskovskogo-naroda

[mendeleyev]

Many Ruskies are just confused and fukkled up when it comes to history.

When it comes to the "brotherhood" between the two, Ruskies swoon and proclaim love for their common history. In their minds, these two people are one.

Ask if Ukraine has ever been a true nation/country, they will rise quickly and announce that the region known today as Ukraine never had a Tsar. You'll be told that the Russian Tsar has ALWAYS (a lie of magnificent stupidity) ruled Ukraine.

But alas, if you remind the dumbfukks that their beloved Prince Vladimir was the ruler of the Kyivan-Rus, ruling from Kyiv, and under him his sons ruled regions of what is now Russia, suddenly they fall into convulsions and experience electromagnetic brain overload.