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In February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a fellow East Slav state with much shared history. In Russia’s War Against Ukraine – the Whole Story​ (Melbourne University Press, August 2023), Professor Mark Edele, a world authority on the history of the Soviet Union, explains why and how this conflict came about. His primary focus is on the different paths taken by these two former members of the Soviet Union. This event is for any concerned global citizens seeking a comprehensive understanding of the ongoing Russia/Ukraine conflict and its historical context.

Since the implosion of that state in 1991, Ukraine has developed a vibrant, if often troubled, democracy. For an increasingly dictatorial Russian political elite, including but not limited to Vladimir Putin, Ukraine has appeared more and more threatening. Humiliated by the degradation of Russia’s international standing, feeling betrayed by an expanding NATO and anxious about democratic revolutions in the former Soviet space, Putin and his allies have increasingly retreated into a resentful ultra-nationalism. Dreams of past imperial glory stand in place of any attempt to solve the problems of the present.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine came as a shock to most of the world. In order to understand why this happened, a growing army of self-declared experts provided explanations often mis-representing the history of Ukraine and of Russia and mis-representing the pre-history of this war and the role of outside forces. As a historian of the Soviet Union and its successor states, Mark felt compelled to set the record straight. Watching this talk will provide insight into one of the most geopolitically significant and complex conflicts of our time.

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Crediting Russia as the sole successor of the medieval Kyivan Rus and laying claims to all of the lands it controlled, erasing histories of Ukrainian cities such as Kharkiv and Odesa and justifying attacks on them while also labeling Ukrainian artists and scientists as being actually Russian, is part of Moscow’s ongoing quest to erase Ukraine, its history and culture.

The fifth episode of “Ukraine’s True History” explains how Russia stole Ukrainian history and uses it to justify its all-out war.

Read the story here: https://kyivindependent.com/how-russia-steals-and-rewrites-ukrainian-history-to-justify-its-claims-in-ukraine/

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: Natalia Chekotun
Scriptwriters: Oleg Sukhov, Natalia Chekotun
Story editors: Oleksiy Sorokin, Toma Istomina
Illustration: Alina Radomska
Animation, sound: Anastasia Nevmerzhytska
Narrator: Anthony Bartaway
Project coordinator: Anna Yakutenko

00:00 – Intro
00:42 – Where was Kyivan Rus located?
00:56 – Russia and Kyivan Rus
01:17 – The word “Rus”
01:25 – The word “Rus” and Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
01:44 – The word “Rus” and Moscow Tsardom
02:17 – Is Ukraine or Russia the main successor of Kyivan Rus?
02:37 – Little Russia, Great Russia and White Russia
02:57 – The term “Little Rus”
03:06 – Why does Moscow call Ukraine “Little Russia”?
03:17 – The name “Ukraine”
03:33 – What is “New Russia”?
04:27 – Is Odesa “historically Russian”?
04:37 – Monument to Russian Empress Catherine II in Odesa
04:57 – Greek settlements in Odesa
05:10 – The town of Hadhibey
05:39 – Is Kharkiv “historically Russian”?
05:55 – Kharkiv and Sloboda Cossacks
06:08 – Is “Crimea” historically Russian?
06:20 – Greeks and Crimean Tatars
06:52 – Russia appropriates Ukrainian scientists and artists
07:02 – Writer Mykola Gogol
07:45 – Scientist Serhiy Korolov
08:34 – Aviation engineer Ihor Sikorsky
09:16 – Russia appropriating Ukrainian history
09:26 – Ukraine reclaims its history
09:42 – Kuindzhi, Repin and Malevych recognized as Ukrainian artists

Photos and videos used in the story:
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Ivan Honchar Museum
YouTube/Odesa City Council
facebook/Kharkiv City Council
facebook/Serhiy Hutsaliuk
Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS
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telegram/Margarita Simonyan
YouTube/Vladimir Rodin
YouTube/Anatoliy Myrhorod
YouTube/Andrey Kochurov
YouTube/Zhytomyr
YouTube/Dark Skies
YouTube/Oleg Prylutskyi
Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
blogpost.com
Kyiv International Airport
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
facebook/Sergíy Kyslytsya
facebook/Oksana Semenik
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Russia has been leading a centuries-long quest to distort Ukrainian history in an attempt to deny Ukrainians the right to choose their own fate.
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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