What is Ukraine
? Part 3.
I'd like to continue on the subject of the "Ukrainian" origin.
We'll have to trace back to the collapse of the Roman Empire and large-scale migrations of that time. A group of Proto-Slavs migrated to certain lands of today's Ukraine, Belarus, and Western Russia. This group later became East Slavs. By that time, two other groups were already present on those lands. The Aboriginal population of Finno-Ugric people, and the Vikings who settled there.
If we use simple, general language, the mix of the above in the historical timeline represents the ancestors of today's Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrainians.
* In addition, we can definitely add on to that the Tatars (of Turkic origin), but later in the timeline.
Then we got a state called "Rus". As a matter of fact, the word "Rus" has undoubtedly Scandinavian origin.
️Not "Kievan Rus" that Ukrainian textbook push for.
The term "Kievan Rus" is a historical/scientific construct. Even the "founder" of Ukrainian modern history, M. Hrushevsky, did not use the term "Kievan Rus".
Ukrainian nationalists try to claim Russian history as their own, to suit their political and nationalist needs, to be the only and unique heirs of “Kievan Rus". Nonsense.
Only in 1837, the first rector of the Kiev Imperial University, M. Maksimovich, coined the term "Kievan Rus" to separate different parts of the Russian State, such as Novgorod Rus, Kievan Rus, Vladimir Rus, Galician Rus, etc.
Simple.
Over time, Rus was partitioned due to economic reasons mainly, and every region started developing on its own.
Then we could discuss the Western Rus, part of modern Ukraine and Belarus, and the Eastern Rus. Both Western and Eastern groups occupied later the southern lands, where they lived without a central power for some time. It was until Catherine the Great incorporated those lands into the Russian Empire along with Crimea in the 18th century, long before many of today's European countries existed.
As you can see, Crimea has been Russian territory since that time, until it was assigned to Ukraine as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic.
But I will spare your ears and stop here
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