Month: April 2023
In the first episode of the Kyiv Independent’s new series – “Ukraine’s True History” – we explain and debunk the 10 most common misconceptions about Ukrainian history that Russian propaganda has been spreading for years.
This material is funded by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting within the program “Ukraine Forward: Amplifying Analysis.”
The program is financed by the MATRA Programme of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ukraine.
Producer and scriptwriter: Iryna Matviyishyn
Illustration, animation, sound: Hanna Naronina
Narrator: Anthony Bartaway
Story editors: Oleksiy Sorokin, Olga Rudenko, Toma Istomina
Opener: Illustration by Alina Radomska. Motion design by Anastasia Nevmerzhytska.
Project coordinator: Anna Yakutenko
00:00 – Intro
00:35 – Myth 1: Moscow is the legitimate successor of Kyivan Rus
01:35 – Myth 2: Ukrainians and Russians are one people
02:50 – Myth 3: Crimea is Russian
04:10 – Myth 4: The Holodomor famine was result of bad harvest
05:37 – Myth 5: Communism was a good idea with bad implementation
06:40 – Myth 6: Ukrainians are ‘Nazis’
07:51 – Myth 7: Russia liberated Europe from the Nazis
08:38 – Myth 8: Ukraine is divided: east vs. west
09:27 – Myth 9: Ukraine is a project of the West
10:21 – Myth 10: Ukraine is culturally poor
Read the story here: https://kyivindependent.com/10-popular-misconceptions-about-ukrainian-history-debunked/
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Photos used in a video:
Maximilian Clarke/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Oleksandr Gimanov / AFP via Getty Images
Photo by Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
AFP via Getty Images
Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images
Ukrainian Mission to EU/Twitter
President’s Office/Telegram
Honchar Museum
Holodomor Museum
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