The borders of Russia following the partition of Poland is a little incorrect as the Congress Poland territory jutting out from the Russian borders didn't come to existence until after the defeat of Napoleon. Before this the Congress Poland territory of Russia was controlled mostly by Prussia and partially by Austria

@hatinmyselfiscool2879

2 жыл бұрын

someone watched historia civilis

@alehaim

2 жыл бұрын

@@hatinmyselfiscool2879 i actually haven't watched em too much. I just know from my Fascination with the idea of what if Prussia remained as thick as it was

@gunarsmiezis9321

Жыл бұрын

@@hatinmyselfiscool2879 No idea who is but I do know history.

@clouds-rb9xt

Жыл бұрын

@@DeadGuye1995 LARP. The Poles are free from German oppression

@user-cd7ib8ty3p

Жыл бұрын

@@clouds-rb9xt no 😂

I love the fact you went into more detail about Khmelnytsky and the Hetmanate than I could've in my video, great job!

@claudianisipasu4014

Жыл бұрын

Slava Ukraina! !!... Slava Hmielnitsky! !... Love from Romania! !!!

Kuban cossacks we're literally the children of the Zaporhizian cossacks that settled there and spoke Ukrainian. the Don cossacks consisted of cossacks that were from Slobozhanshina which was to a large part Ukrainian.

@jonathanwilliams1065

Жыл бұрын

The Kuban should be ceded to Ukraine as punishment

@user-pk1wn8ol1r

Жыл бұрын

@@jonathanwilliams1065 first Ukraine must be given to Russia

@gnas1897

10 ай бұрын

​@@jonathanwilliams1065 Clearly, you have never been anywhere near the Caucasus if you actually think that this could work out lol

thank you for supporting Ukraine from the bottom of heart ♥

That was a lovely rendition of the Cossacks' Reply in your minimalist mspaint-y style :)

Great animation top notch stuff man so glad to be working with you

Kuban Cossacks are also of Ukrainian origin. Don Cossacks are mixed Ukrainian and Russian.

@user-cg2tw8pw7j

10 ай бұрын

No, they are Iranians, Turks, Mongols, and Cumans

Definitely my absolute favorite thing about history channels on KZread, they started doing these huge collabs and suddenly, like my own little Christmas every once in a while, my subscriptions are filled with fresh content that'll take me days to get through. Keep up the good work guys, history is my greatest passion and I adore the channels across this site putting out solid history content. And to end on a more topical note, Slava Ukraini!

@gremlin7665

2 жыл бұрын

Nah

@gamerteeb794

2 жыл бұрын

@@gremlin7665 ligma

@gremlin7665

2 жыл бұрын

@@gamerteeb794 stooopid

@gamerteeb794

2 жыл бұрын

@@gremlin7665 ligma balls

@captainfreedom3649

2 жыл бұрын

yeah slava bandera slava genocide

Kuban Cossacks were the direct descendants of Zaporozhian Cossacks. They were Ukrainians as well. Don Cossacks were close to Russians but still despised Muscowites and did not want them to settle on their territory. Some descendants of Don Cossacks became the infamous Russian Cossacks who captured Siberia and took part in Russian military expeditions to Europe (e.g. in Paris).

@chadgaston8615

Жыл бұрын

Despised? They literally handed over Pugachev to be killed. Did you ever wonder why there are so few statues of the man in Donetsk Oblast even if Pushkin himself wrote about that cossack. Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think there are any statues of the guy in areas controlled by Russian Federation.

Most informative, thank you!

I'm glad to see the world taking interest in the history of this region of Europe and finally starting to understand it but sad that it took a bloody war to happen. This video is great introduction to the topic. There are some minor problems with it, like the pronunciation of _Sich_ (why the 'k' sound?) and some other words. I've never heard about Maksym Kryvonis being potentially of Scottish origin. That's a very interesting detail! And not so improbable, as you might think. There was Scottish immigration to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - an interesting topic, worthy of its own video.

@stormshadow5283

2 жыл бұрын

There is no such thing as an ancient history of Ukraine and to speak of one is appropriation of Russian history. It is like appropriating Native American history as the history of US or Aborigine history as the history of the Australian state or the history of Hindus of India as the history of the Pakistani state and so on. Countries like Ukraine, US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand are artificial states not the fruit of a civilisation.

@SomasAcademy

2 жыл бұрын

@@stormshadow5283 That's like saying "There's no ancient history of Italy and to speak of one is appropriation of Spanish history." Russia and Ukraine have a common origin in the Kyivan Rus', a state which included parts of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, but had its capital in Ukraine. After the fall of the Kyivan Rus' in the mid-13th century, Ukraine (Ruthenia) and Russia (Muscovy) were vassal states under the Mongol Golden Horde for decades, until Ukraine (Ruthenia) was conquered by Poland and Lithuania in the 14th century, while Muscovy remained under the Mongols until the late-15th. Russia only expanded partial control over Ukraine in the mid-late 17th century, and didn't fully incorporate it as a province of the Russian empire until the late-18th century. By that time, the Ukrainians had their own language, their own customs, and their own identity, and Russia had to actively suppress Ukrainian identity and send in Russian settlers in an effort to assimilate Ukraine into Russia. How ironic is it that you would compare speaking of Ukrainian history to claiming Native American or Australian history for settlers, when you are literally claiming that the history of Ukraine belongs to those who conquered them, suppressed their culture, and even sent settlers in an attempt to overwhelm their local identity? Who called parts of Ukraine "New Russia" just as the Spanish and English Empires called their American territories "New Spain" and 'New England"? Are you genuinely so stupid that you thought you were making a reasonable analogy, or did you know you were being a dishonest hack, and deliberately make the nonsense analogy in the hopes of confusing onlookers?

@Artur_M.

2 жыл бұрын

@@SomasAcademy Exactly! Frankly, I've lost all patience to argue against opinions like the one above and you said it all better than I could.

@somedesertdude1308

Жыл бұрын

ur polish...

@thomaslacornette1282

Жыл бұрын

@@SomasAcademy Your history of Ukraine is far from exact cause that's Russia who conquered acual east/south Ukraine/Crimea on tatars and on Crimean Khanate and founded all those town like Marioupol, Odessa, Sebastopol, conquered bessarabaia also: that's not Ukraine. And before tatars and turks it was not Ukrainian also and never been. The Ukraine you speaking is western Ukraine and Ukraine of zaparoge cossacks (who were at a moment allies of Russia). That's Russia who bring here Ukrainians (ruthens) settlers or even germans. You rewrite history like Russia always been an invader and a settler in "Ukraine" but it's totally wrong at least for the eastern and south part. You're speaking like the borders never changed thorugh centuries and actual borders always been the same but it's wrong; there's many part of actual Ukraine that never really been Ukrainian. You also not speak about the Ukrainization policy of USSR in years 20's to 30's. There are always been Russians in many of some parts of actual Ukraine ineast and south, and in many of those regions Ukrainian was just the languages of poor settlers farmers bring there by Russia, in towns founded by Russia everybody speak Russian. About the Donbass more than half of actual Donbass (up to the meotide river) was part of the Cossack don army oblast: Russian coassacks.

Great video! Really good to find out a bit more about who the cossacks were and their influence in the creation of a Ukrainian identity.

@hazzmati

2 жыл бұрын

You've become such a Ukraine shill haha

@baneofbanes

2 жыл бұрын

@@hazzmati go back to your masters Muscovite.

@joecool9739

Жыл бұрын

@@hazzmati So he should disregard history and be a Putin shill instead?

@giorgijioshvili9713

Жыл бұрын

@@hazzmati Lol, Russian fanboy's just can't stop talking about glorious soviet union

@claudianisipasu4014

Жыл бұрын

Slava Ukraina!!!

The best video is the best I’ve ever seen in English-speaking KZread!!! Thank you so much!!!

im glAD to see your channel has grown and become part of this effort to help Ukrainians and also for teaching others understand the rich, and complicated history of such great nation and its people.

@BellicoseNation

Жыл бұрын

Actually, NATION and a PEOPLE are the same thing.

@fulippuannaghiti1965

Жыл бұрын

Lol Ukraine didn't exist until Soviet Union stop making up fairy tales about history.

@claudianisipasu4014

Жыл бұрын

Slava Ukraina!!!... Slava Hmielnitsky!!!... Greetings from Romania!!!

@basedkaiser5352

6 ай бұрын

Khmelnietsky, Russian patriot.

Finally there's a video which shows that after Khmelnytsky's agreement with Muscovy things were not done and there was half of century of turbulence

@user-pk1wn8ol1r

Жыл бұрын

Не с московией а с Россией* слово "Россия" для обозначения русского государства появилось ещё в первой половине 10 века

@user-dx4lj5bu7v

Жыл бұрын

@@user-pk1wn8ol1r московит, спок

@alekshukhevych2644

Жыл бұрын

@@user-pk1wn8ol1r Ето слово ви себе сами накрутили для легитимизации вашей импертт и ее атаки на земли Руси, тоисть Украини. Летописи почитай, там Русь обозначается только как Владимир-Суздаль итд. И Русю там била только территория Украини.

@Zapper-kq1zg

Жыл бұрын

@@alekshukhevych2644хазаросвин не тебе нас учить, так что ротик прикрой

I've seen a lot of the project ukraine videos but this is certainly one of the best of them

@sebastianseb4392

Жыл бұрын

In my opinion, one of the worst. Wrong maps (the whole map is a caricature), a lot of simplifications and omitting important facts. It is a pity that someone else did not take up this topic.

*Great video, looking forward to your next videos❣❣*

Thx for the upload

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!

@claudianisipasu4014

Жыл бұрын

Slava Ukraina! !!!.... Love from Romania! !!!

@oliversherman2414

Жыл бұрын

@@claudianisipasu4014 Slava Ukraina! Love from the UK! 🇬🇧

Grateful for this Playlist! @Kings and Generals & Company!!

that's a surprisingly accurate video for a Westerner* it would also be worth mentioning that Russian Kuban Cossacks were descendants of Ukrainian settlers *you got the partition map wrong. Russian part was initially much smaller, it got bigger (what you show) after the Napoleon wars and pronunciation :)

I am happy to come here from King and Generals and Cold War channel to watch as many of these as possible.

Great video, as a ukrainian living in Canada it's a great refreshment of my historical heritage

Thank you.

So proud to be part of #ProjectUkraine =) amazing videos by all the great content creators! 🇺🇦

@gimbatul9761

2 жыл бұрын

Subbed. Always glad to find a new history YT channel.

@captainfreedom3649

2 жыл бұрын

#SupportTheCurrentThing

@gremlin7665

2 жыл бұрын

@MCAssassinis is he wrong

@gremlin7665

2 жыл бұрын

What does the Pacific theatre have to do with Ukraine. How about you do a video on the Palestine conflict and connect it to whatever you focus on

"The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony" --Henry Kissinger

@CivilWarWeekByWeek

2 жыл бұрын

We meet again don't we

@ontheline3077

2 жыл бұрын

West is waging a proxy war by fueling UA with weapons and money. They are ready to fight to the last Ukrainian

@PakBallandSami

2 жыл бұрын

@@CivilWarWeekByWeek yeah hi

@konplayz

2 жыл бұрын

quote by the guy that carpet bombed all of indochina and somehow won a nobel peace prize for it

@ontheline3077

2 жыл бұрын

@@konplayz bc he was American politician. Take Obama for example, right after receiving Nobel prize he droned Syrians and Livia

Excellent video! I covered the same topic in my contribution to #ProjectUkraine, but I focused on slightly different aspects and a narrower timeframe.

@chimchim2_

Жыл бұрын

Sub!

@claudianisipasu4014

Жыл бұрын

Slava Ukraina! !!!... Slava Hmielnitsky! !!... Love from Romania! !!!

Khmelnytsky's uprising took place at the same time as the English Revolution. In some ways, these events are similar in the uprising of the new aristocracy, supported by burghers, against the existing state. Plus the religious factor: in England they are Catholics against Protestants, and in Ukraine - Catholics against Orthodox. But in Ukraine/Ruthenia/Cossack state, Muscovy intervened in this conflict, and after several decades of byzantine policy, was able to conquer Ukraine and later destroy the Commonwealth.

@claudianisipasu4014

Жыл бұрын

Slava Ukraina! !!!!... Slava Hmielnitsky! !!!... Love from Romania! !!!!

@egertroos1691

Жыл бұрын

@@claudianisipasu4014 Greetings from Estonia

@claudianisipasu4014

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate Your clarification.... Hmielnitsky wanted to be Equal to Jeremy Wisniowiecki, in my humble opinion.... Slava Ukraine! !!!!

@egertroos1691

Жыл бұрын

@@claudianisipasu4014 Moldova can soon join Romania

@claudianisipasu4014

Жыл бұрын

@@egertroos1691 Love & respect to Estonia from Romania & Republic of Moldova!!!! Slava Ukraine. ... Slava Poland & the 3 baltic countries.... Tibor, Romania, Craiova!!!!

Thank you for the video

Nice to see some larger channels all teaching about this. I made a short about Ukraine a couple months ago on my channel, but it is new so not many folks saw it.

@claudianisipasu4014

Жыл бұрын

Slava Ukraina!!!!!

great video! note: “ch” in “Sich” is pronounced as in “chicken”

@oleksandrkovalchuk3823

Жыл бұрын

and "kobzar", not "koz bar" :))

Who else has been enjoying going through the playlist today?

Not only Russia betrayed Cossacks. The western part of Hetmanate was just gifted by Russia to Poland despite Russia de facto had no rights on Hetmanate at all (it was just a protectorate and military alliance). But for Russian tsars it was like "we captured new land and this is Russia now". Moreover Ruthenia is much bigger land than just Hetmanate. Western Ruthenia still was under control of Poland and many Ruthenians were angered by the commonwealth of three nations since their land was just gifted to Polish nation.

@chadgaston8615

Жыл бұрын

Don always served Russia accept few occasions betraying its brothers. Does the name Orlov-Denisov ring a bell. I am glad a lot of people are volunteers in Ukraine from the region that has a lot of scores to settle with pro-Moscow Don boys. I also would argue that almost 400 years ago Khmelnytsky and Bohun did not truly understand what post-mongol yoke Moscow was or what it would become. Serfdom was terrible everywhere. Russia however just played cossacks against one another. Russia and Poland eventually destroyed in 1768-1775 all cossack hosts outside Danube and Don. Nicholas I eventually forced all remaining cossacks to bow to the tsar. Polish Iron Felix took care of what was left of cossacks. Iron Felix of Polish nobility just did what his ancestors had always done.

@G0TIMAN

Жыл бұрын

But Ruthenia is not simply a Ukraine

@Anton_Danylchenko

Жыл бұрын

@@G0TIMAN What was Ruthenia became Ukraine. Ruthenian nationalists just agreed to use the name "Ukraine" in ethnic sense (both names were already in use in XVII-XIX century, but "Ukrainian" meant "from Ukraine" while Ruthenian meant ethnicity) in order to be distinguishable from Muscovites who started to call themselves Russians and tries to assimilate Ruthenians. So Ruthenians is just the old name for Ukrainians the same way as Wallachians is the old name for Romanians. Ruthenian language of XVII century was de facto Old Ukrainian. There was also Old Belarusian - but those people took the "Litvins" identity by that time and were renamed into Belarusians only later.

@alekshukhevych2644

Жыл бұрын

@@Anton_Danylchenko Yes indeed.

Love your channel, Bro do you think you can make content related to more Napoléonic era, thank you ^_^

I as a Ukrainian feel this video even a bit too inaccurate as Poles were the same occupants on our land as russians did during Ruin. Even more, Poles were destroying our traditional cossack government while russians took the way of slow integration of our land in their country. Cossackhood was demolished in Poland in the 17th century, while in russia as far as one hundred years after Poles did. So, for better understanding, no one spoke russian in Ukraine during the Ruin YET. But Eastern Bank of the Dnipro Cossacks had economical relationships with russia, while Western Bank were relatively ready to give up in independence to have the ability to trade with Poles. That was the problem and no poles were 'hope' or 'help' or 'democracy' of some sort. Until modern days Poles were occupants even with russians in their hate on us. It's important to consider

@2Notts

Жыл бұрын

Oh my, Poles were not the occupants of Ukraine as Ukraine never really existed as a fully functioning state up until post soviet era. A brief blip in history of Kiyv Rus that in fact was invaded by Great Dutchy of Lithuania and then found itself within Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is all that you're pending on. Ukrainians/Cossacs proved to be the biggest pain in the butthole for the Commonwealth and the piece and stability of the whole region. You can blame only yourselves for enabling Moscovia to grow to Great Russian Empire. This video greatly presents how unstable ukraininians have always been and why you brought current war upon yourself. Traitors who backed those who they benefited more from at a given time. If not for Poland, you would be spelling your surname in Russian by now.

@theowlx7_alex245

Жыл бұрын

@@2Notts bro, don't be angry peasants simply wanted to own land without the lords. We are very thankful for your help, but we need to overthink our past a bit. Our nation always wanted liberal democracy of sorts, to privately own land, to freely speak our language and to freely attend our own, Ukrainian, churches. No empire, nor Polish, nor russian, were the ones ready to leave us such an autonomy, and as such we were rebelling. For example, many Ukrainians hate Belarusians and consider them weak because they didn't uprise, it is just our mentality. No one, except of the people of Ukraine, can own Ukraine. It is simple yet provoked a lot of conflict.

Congrats on kings and generals link up

Probably one of most detailed and correct video about history of Ukraine in english what i saw. 👍 Fun fact - before Khmelnytskyi there was Sahaidachnyi. In 1618 Hetman Sahaidachnyi raise a 20K army of Cossacks to help Polish-Lithuanian King win the war with Moscow. But for some reasons they decided to spare it. In one version, Sahaidachny heard church bells and suggest negotiating peace.... If only he knew

@claudianisipasu4014

Жыл бұрын

Slava Ukraina!!!!... Ukraina to be admitted asap in the NATO alliance...

@user-co3uc8vt7e

Жыл бұрын

And what if he knew? Moscow wouldn't be rebuilt? Don't embarrass yourself.

@mykhailo4472

Жыл бұрын

@@user-co3uc8vt7e embarrass with what? historical fact? or what? * обиженка?*

@user-co3uc8vt7e

Жыл бұрын

@@mykhailo4472 Дурницями своїми, що якби Сагайдачний спалив Москву, то щось у подальшій історії Європи змінилося б.

@mykhailo4472

Жыл бұрын

@@user-co3uc8vt7e ну по перше так , щось би змінилося, але хз що) а по друге ви чіпляється до what if ситуації - це вже в художню літературу альт історії вам..

There's actually no original paper on the traty of Pereyaslav. So it may be just a political manipulation from the russia to justify the occupation of Ukraine. The last hetman of Ukraine Kyrylo Rozumovsky investigated that matter in the late XVIII century but as soon as he wanted to make a claim of Independent Ukraine once again - he was arrested. In his official documents the Ukrainain nation was literarly mentioned as the title people of Ukraine.

@pavelstaravoitau7106

Жыл бұрын

Eastern Ukraine voted with guns and sabers to stay with Russia. I doubt they didn't know what they fought for.

@user-pk1wn8ol1r

Жыл бұрын

@@pavelstaravoitau7106 there are no men on the streets of Donetsk, they all went to war with Ukraine. at this time, the Ukrainians shelled Donetsk with artillery, killing those who remained in the city. a few days ago, a 155mm Ukrainian shell killed 12 people in Donetsk, this shell gave the Ukrainians NATO .....

@pavelstaravoitau7106

Жыл бұрын

@@user-pk1wn8ol1r I meant the Pereyaslav Rada and the treaty with Russia in 1654 and later.

The fact that the Ukrainians responded to the ottomans by roasting them is hilarious to me

@chadgaston8615

Жыл бұрын

And many cossacks eventually ended up beging protection from Muslim Turks. Today Erdogan and Zelensky has restored relationship broken during Bohun and Khmelnytsky.

@mitchyoung93

Жыл бұрын

They weren't Ukrainians.

@KaiserFranzJosefI

Жыл бұрын

There's no evidence that that response ever existed and the Ottomans later conquered Ukraine

@twoneedy

Жыл бұрын

@@KaiserFranzJosefI The Ukraine*

@StayFreshMyFriends

Жыл бұрын

@@twoneedy no

Great video! As a Russian from Kunan' region it was nice to refresh some stuff but also clarify and get to know a lot too.

When you compare that with current events in Ukraine you can see that many players still stay the same. Russia, Poland, Turkey, Sweden. In later century French and British come by and in 20th century americans arrive.

Kings and generals, Al muqadimah, hikma history, knowledgia, from nothing, emperor tigerstar, Jabzy all released videos relating Ukraine at the same time.

@SomasAcademy

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, they (and several more of us!) were all involved in a collab to cover Ukrainian history, i partnership with a charity helping war victims!

@Game_Hero

2 жыл бұрын

That was the goal : collaborative project.

Good job. Really good. Just felt like I had to express that. Thank you for objectiveness

Not "Sick" but Sich (Sitch)

It seems like cussing out invaders is a bit of a tradition there!

Apostolic Majesty's video "How the Ukraine became the Ukraine (1187-1992: A Brief History" is phenomenal and everyone should go give it a listen.

@Game_Hero

2 жыл бұрын

Because no Ukrainian perspective is in it?

@palagius9149

2 жыл бұрын

@@Game_Hero - There is no perspective it's an overview of historical events. If you don't like that then you just don't like unbiased history.

@Game_Hero

2 жыл бұрын

@@palagius9149 That's not what I'm saying. An unbiaised history shows all the perspectives. This would be like talking about the Settlement of the West with only the point of view of european settlers and not the Indigenous people, you'd be left with only one half of the full story and that's a disgrace to encyclopedic history.

@palagius9149

2 жыл бұрын

@@Game_Hero - Cool, that's not what I'm saying either. It's an overview of what happened in the Ukraine over the course of 800 years with no perspective from either side, there is no opinion, there is no bias, it's a fucking top-down overview for Christs sake. Also, I love how you're starting an argument with me, when literally all I've down is shout someone out.

"as he [Khmelnytskyi] has a city named after him" Yeah, I live in it. It was renamed from Proskuriv on the third centenary of that Pereyaslav treaty by moscow I'm sorry to inform you, you butchered much of Ukrainian names. If interested, I can instruct on anglicized pronounciation

@SomasAcademy

2 жыл бұрын

If you're interested, I also covered the Khmelnytsky uprising in my contribution to this collab, and consulted with a Ukrainian to try and get my pronunciations as close as I could.

Mazepa switched sides on the eve of battle... to the losing side... New Russia was not founded on Kozak land, it was build on Tatar lands.

How strange, these modern days, we find stuff out about our own name sakes. Due to the computer, I found a 'nobleman' Stanislaw Rajkiewicz. Yes the old way to spell my very Polish name, with a 'j'. Here is what I found, in Polish from 1663, 'W Jm Pan Stanislaw Rajkiewicz, Rotmistrz". which, when translated says, Sir Nobleman, Stanislaw Rajkiwicz, Captain of Horse(a Knight). He was enobled or 'knighted' by the King of Ruthenia(which I had never heard of). Until recently, I never knew about any of this. In the USA my last name has a 'y' in it. Sorry for the long post.

@tedik737

2 жыл бұрын

Polish names are unpronouncable for English speaking communities so the spelling was changed to keep pronunciation intact. Raykiewicz in English sounds just like Rajkiewicz in Polish. Well I might argue about "cz" at the very end as poles pronounce it as hard "tsh" in English. "Raykiewitsh" would be the closest authentic pronunciation to "home", but its just too much of a mess to be honest.

Ivan Mazepa is a very interesting character. Very smart guy. He deserves separate video

As the first one at least could be mentioned when muscovite principal betreyed Rus' principals and helped mongolians to defeat them

Simple excuse to say the Cossacks are a mystery. Truth is they were always in the Donbas, Donetsk region.

@mxmis1225

5 ай бұрын

Zaporozhia, Kyiv, Dniper, Crimea.

15:30 didn't realize that was the etymology of "condominium".. I'm never going to see a normal old condo the same again.

Victory for 🇺🇦!

@claudianisipasu4014

Жыл бұрын

Slava Ukraina! !!!!.... Slava Hmielnitsky! !!!.... Love from Romania! !!!!

@user-pk1wn8ol1r

Жыл бұрын

@@claudianisipasu4014 how is northern bukovina and cetatea alba?

Russia at the start of the war: this'll be so easy Russia after Ukraine's offensive: *vodka time stops*

@user-pk1wn8ol1r

Жыл бұрын

after the offensive of Ukraine turned into a huge US military base

@oliversherman2414

Жыл бұрын

@@user-pk1wn8ol1r what do you mean?

@MrThhg

Жыл бұрын

@@user-pk1wn8ol1r if it were Russia be outta Ukraine in 2 weeks

Thanks a lot from Ukraine for your truthful videos about our country!

@claudianisipasu4014

Жыл бұрын

Slava Ukraina!!!... Love from Romania!!!!

Surprised there was no mention of Makhnovshchina and the combined roles Cossacks played in both the Red, White, and Green armies of Russia. Of course, it was such a chaotic and complex period I would assume its a topic for another video, because hoooo boy things got wild in Huliaipole. Dons, Zaporozhians, and the Kubans fighting each other, fighting themselves, practically becoming the world's largest Deathmatch game.

@JabzyJoe

2 жыл бұрын

This is part of a huge playlist covering all periods of Ukranian History. Check out Kings and Generals for the full thing.

@trashrabbit69

2 жыл бұрын

@@JabzyJoe Ah, will do!

@claudianisipasu4014

Жыл бұрын

Slava Ukraina! !!!... Love from Romania! !!!

@simplicius11

Жыл бұрын

@@JabzyJoe What a pile of crap. What is Ruthenia? Such entity never existed nor was called like that by anyone. Khmelnitsky: "" ...so our enemies, wanting to eradicate the Holy Orthodox Church, *so the Russian name* would disappear from our land... in our *Malorussia* ..."

Thanks from Ukraine 🤝. But a small correction: 'ch' in 'Sich' is spelled like in 'beech' or 'chips'.

There is a movie by Jezhe Hoffman called "By Sward and Fire" about the events of Khmilnitsky time, but it's told from a Polish perspective. But still, it has some pretty impressive battle reenactments.

I mostly agree with everything said in this video except one thing. Before Khmelnytsky Uprising Cossacks where mostly a social class than ethnicity. Off course Cossacks play important role in the creation of modern Ukrainian nation but we cannot assume that Cossack uprising where Ukrainian Wars for independence. Besides modern notion of nation (any, not only Ukrainian) it is late 18th - early 19th century creation.

@alekshukhevych2644

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed it was, however most cossacks were Ruthenian, people who would later be called Ukrainians

@Hadar1991

2 жыл бұрын

@@alekshukhevych2644 You just proven my point. Ruthenians where the biggest chunk but Cossacks where multietnic social class (at least in the beginning)

@alekshukhevych2644

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hadar1991 Actually no. Right from the start the majority of Zaporozhian and Dnieper cossacks were Ruthenian. Although there were Moscowite and Polish as well as Tatar and Moldovian minorities.

@Hadar1991

2 жыл бұрын

@@alekshukhevych2644 But Cossacks never fought for Ruthenian people or any other people. They fought for privileges of their own social class of Cossacks. Alliance of Cossacks and Ruthenian peasantry it is a late occurrence.

@SomasAcademy

2 жыл бұрын

@@alekshukhevych2644 That's not an "Actually no," there's no contradiction between this point and the previous one. You're both saying that the majority of Cossacks were Ruthenian, but that they were a multiethnic group.

Ukraine: exists Russia: that unacceptable

@stormshadow5283

2 жыл бұрын

There is no such thing as an ancient history of Ukraine and to speak of one is appropriation of Russian history. It is like appropriating Native American history as the history of US or Aborigine history as the history of the Australian state or the history of Hindus of India as the history of the Pakistani state and so on. Countries like Ukraine, US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand are artificial states not the fruit of a civilisation.

@brandonlyon730

2 жыл бұрын

@@stormshadow5283 The Russian’s literally colonized all of Siberia with ,any through conquests against the wills of the original natives, and mind I remind you Russia also once controlled Alaska.

@Mypromiselive

2 жыл бұрын

Pakistan=King

@alvarez985

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@Mypromiselive

2 жыл бұрын

@@stormshadow5283 As a Native American, I ask that you don't use my people as a tool to make your stupid and nonsensical argument. Maybe you should read more books, would make you a smarter person.

The "Sick" lmao, are you Terrance or Philip?

Sietch, like with Dune's Fremen.

Kozak is a word of Turkic origin. It means free man. Free in the sense of not belonging to the clan, to the state. After the collapse of the Golden Horde, the state collapsed and a bunch of free nomads appeared who did not belong to the same khan. They were called Cossacks. Some of them found service in Poland/Lithuania/Moscow state.

I cried at the beginning.

@gremlin7665

2 жыл бұрын

Crybaby

28:30 Melitopol?

1149 prince Yuriy Rurykovych from Vladimir-Suzdal principality first marches to Kyiv. Two years after moscow first mention.

Tripped me out to hear kings and generals

Appreciate your work. But please correct. It is not Zapozidgian "sick" but sitch

Can we have episodes about the peoples of Russia's republics like the Urdmut, Kalmyk, Yakuts, Tuvans, Tatars, Crimean Tatars, Circassians, Ossetians, Ingush, Chuvash, Chechens...they too have their language, culture and history endangered by policies of Russification not unlike Catherine's. Their histories should be remembered outside the cyrillic alphabet.

@-andreiDNA

Жыл бұрын

You write in a Latin alphabet. Why don't you go and hate on Italians for introducing you to their alphabet, and instead return to Germanic runes 🙄

@Game_Hero

Жыл бұрын

@@-andreiDNA I don't hate anyone for stories of alphabet, for whataboutisms even less. It was just a poetic way of saying these stories haven't made their way out of a certain linguistic area. That's all, chill.

@Game_Hero

Жыл бұрын

@@-andreiDNA And as far as I'm concerned English nor French were written languages prior to the latin alphabet so not even that was right.

What I'd like to know is did any of these various Cossack groups identify as 'Ukrainian'. I suspect very few did. Ukraine was just a name for a borderland, a contested area on the map...in fact that's what the name means.

@chadgaston8615

Жыл бұрын

You can search it yourself. Zaliniak and Gonta but any Bar confederation member through a sword or saber. Don boys were of course scared of them.

Thanks for the information. However to note, this doesn't help Ukraine's case. As by this line, Ukraine's historical claim would surrender its claims on the Crimean/tatar lands, Odessa, and some lands in the west if Poland cares for it. More so, it would imply neutrality since the Cossacks stood against West and East alike. Which seems pretty much Putin's primary wishlist, and goes significantly further than the concessionist stance (Odessa making a big difference).

It is legitimately painful that you had to use some pictures of "anime" "cossacks" instead of what Cossacks actually looked like at the time. Maksym Krivonos also wasn't Scottish in any capacity. I am skimming over your video and you either make mistakes, or lie. The division between the pro-Russian and pro-Polish cossacks even early on were along the Dnieper river. Vyhovskiy wasn't actually very popular and represented a smaller part of the cossacks. He "won" his position by usurping, and pro-Russian cossacks to the east of dnieper fought him and did not let him advance eastwards. In fact, he wasn't even popular west of dnieper and anti-Russian Cossack regiments were generally smaller than the pro-Russian ones, if I recall correctly for both instances of anti-Russian uprisings, both under Vyhovskiy and Yuri Khmelnitskiy.

You are missing very important period of "Kievan Rus" 882-1240. This is where the state from which ukrainian nationality is mostly originated from. And first invation of ancestors of Russia on Ukraine has happend at 1169.

@JabzyJoe

2 жыл бұрын

This is all part of a playlist and other creators covered more Medieval stuff. Check out Kings and Generals for the rest of it.

@WangAiHua

4 ай бұрын

@@JabzyJoe This might be of interest to you! kzread.info/dash/bejne/a4V40buke8nVkqw.htmlsi=cnQMHlUebTUHFwfK

14:00 Bohun support propolish side and Treaty of Hadiach

Authors admit that khmelnitskii accepted russian rule... isnt it over ar that point?

@chadgaston8615

Жыл бұрын

Not when Russia collaborated with Kalmyks and Vatican against sons of Don and Uman. You also make naive assumption that a cossack somehow keeps its word. Did they keep their word to Poland when Tugay Bey literally bribed cossacks on Polish side to turn against Poland.

I’m not the biggest fan of Khrushchev (although he is definitely better than Stalin and Brezhnev) but he’s probably the only ruler of a Russian empire (yep I called the USSR a Russian empire) who seemed to tolerate Ukraine. His granddaughter even said he would be appalled by Putin’s actions. So while he is certainly an enemy to Hungary, he really isn’t to Ukraine.

@Roachh2877

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't kruschev Ukrainian or realated to it.

@DaisyGeekyTransGirl

Жыл бұрын

@@Roachh2877 Yes, that’s definitely why although Stalin, a Georgian, wasn’t too kind to the Georgians and instituted a campaign of Russification.

@KaiserFranzJosefI

Жыл бұрын

Nikita Khrushchev was one of the chief architects of the 1932 Terror-Famine in Ukraine. Your comment is bafflingly ignorant.

@jonathanwilliams1065

Жыл бұрын

He was Ukrainian

@gnas1897

Жыл бұрын

Khrushchev was actually a terrible leader.

Did he say cosacks or kazakhs

🇺🇦

Kuban cossks came from Ukraine thus Ukrainians again

You're misrepresenting the history of Ukraine. For one, Ukraine in the 15th century never extended to the black sea. It was about a third of the size you presented in the animation. Also, the Ukrainians of that time switched back and forth their allegiance between the Polish and the Russian.

Soviets completely replaced Little Russian identity with Ukrainian identity in the 1920s with the localization campaign. They did not create it but they helped solidify it, since the Little Russian identity was associated with the tsarist regime. Let's also not pretend that most people in Ukraine fought against communists and that all the communists were Russians, plenty of communists from the Ukrainian regions. So please don't mention a "complete fallacy" while inventing one simultaneously

Cossacks are simply Kipchaks and Circassians who have undergone Slavic influence.

Khmelnytsky did not sign anything with Russians, the Pereiaslav agreement was one between the Rus’ and the Muscovites. Then later Muscovy rebranded itself as “Russia” and Muscovites where forced to call themselves Russian.

@petrogaful

Жыл бұрын

Bavarians call themselves bavarians but also germans.

@k.g.b5816

Жыл бұрын

Least delusional hog rider

@MrThhg

Жыл бұрын

I call myself California but I’m also American. Or English

When did Ukraine first have a war with Russia? Presumably as soon as rebellious colonists who had moved north into the "Wild Fields" from the center of civilization around Kyiv became numerous enough to attack their motherland.

Borders of Poland should already change after war of 1676

There is a movie - The Guide, about this blind bandura musicians

A couple of things, Ukrainians and Cossacks aren't as simple as being one, for example the Soviet union forced Cossacks to learn Ukrainian as a way to suppress local dialects and Cossack culture. The civil wars often had little concept of nationalism before the birth of the concept. The Russian civil war wasn't nearly as straight forward as outlined, white officers were surprised by the loyalty of many Cossacks to the old regime though other factions had little and Cossacks as a whole were largely reactive, settling down with agreements before taking up arms when the red started murdering civilians on mass with the clear intent of genocide. Cossacks due to their unique social structures played a very different role to Ukrainians in the war (though both were extensively victimised, though the Cossacks were even more pointedly so, the jews also got special attention but likely not with orders from the top but rather anti-Semitism adding on to the depravity of the Soviet troops).

@ontheline3077

2 жыл бұрын

Cossacks were an estate, not a nation)

@dmytrodelen

2 жыл бұрын

It looks like you've just made it up without without any solid evidence. As a previous comentator pointed out Cossacks were an estate, but most of them were Ukrainians. At least if we're talking about Zaporozhian Cossacks, Danube Cossack or half of Kuban Cossacks.

@vorynrosethorn903

2 жыл бұрын

@@dmytrodelen Source is the book The Cossacks by Shane O’Rourke. Yes they were an estate (which is why I didn’t bother replying to the first chap, he is correct) under the Tsars but that doesn’t mean they were simply analogous to the people around them, they had a very unique culture, unique social structures which the Tsar’s were unable to properly replicate via population transfers and the induction of outsiders into the estate in other regions. They were largely self contained communities and even in the west where they had much more of a history with and among Ukrainians the main similarity was the fierce loyalty to the orthodox church, given how proud the cossacks were however of their uniqueness it would be wrong to think they were not distinct from the wider surrounding population. Wrangel is the the officer who seemed to show the most surprise over cossack loyalties which was likely because he had long served with them and viewed them as being freedom loving and having separatist sympathies (it should be noted that in many this separatism did not pay consideration to Ukrainians but was the independence of cossacks as a people). I should have also mentioned (especially as I left a half mangled sentence in there) that the were little groups of cossacks in all factions of the civil war and large groups in certain factions during certain period’s. Cossacks certainly are (and were) important to Ukrainian nationalism but the situation was a lot more convoluted on the cossack side of things and the soviets despite their treatment of Ukrainians made the attempt to turn cossacks into Ukrainians, Russians or corpses (an effort paid off in destroying all historical continuity at least).

@dmytrodelen

2 жыл бұрын

@@vorynrosethorn903 i appreciate your extended responce. I won't deny this historian work, of course, since I neither read it nor am I a professional historian myself. Plus, I agree with some of the things you described. However, I would argue against completely differentiating Cossacks from Ukrainians. After all, at first you weren’t born Cossack, you become him. And naturally only peasants from Ukraine and rarely from Poland were pursuing Cossack way of life. Then, when this group of people became much more influential you could say they become an estate or even elite of the society. But that society was always Ukrainian. You can find it in their documents. Khmelnytsky considered himself the Prince of Ruthenia. And as you might now the term of Ruthenia gradually and naturally evolved into Ukraine. They consider themselves either Ruthenians or Ukrainians and you can check it by googling Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk from 1710 (if there’s a good translation)

@gabrielantonio5907

Жыл бұрын

This makes no sense, cossasck orginally were mostly ruthenians/ukranians, and were exctint as a class of people in the 20th century, so why soviets would force an inexisting class of people to learn a language they already spoke?

The wild fields were part of the PLC, not Independent

@nosmokejazwinski6297

Жыл бұрын

Nominally yes, but they were de facto Independent for most of the time as it was hard to assert full control over them

6:24 why are you calling Zaporozhian sich a state? "Sich" is some kind of a fortress or something like that.

@iwatchDVDsonXbox360

2 жыл бұрын

Plus, it existed on the territories of PLC and wasn't independent.

@iwatchDVDsonXbox360

2 жыл бұрын

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sich

@nothernstar2576

Жыл бұрын

While Sich is a fortress, it was also a territory controlled by the Cossacks who weren't under hetmanate, so pretty much a state

Actually, they weren't united under the kyivski rus. Moscow, and the entire area that layed the ground for the people we nowadays call "russians", we're NOT part of the kyivski rus. Russia is NOT a successor of this state and its people are, if at all, only very loosely and distantly connected to those. Belarusians and Ukrainians were united under the kyivski rus. However Russians weren't part of this.

@pavelstaravoitau7106

Жыл бұрын

Please pick up a history book. Look at the map of medieval Rus'. You will see plenty of cities where modern European Russia is. To claim that they aren't among inheritors of Rus' is just stupid and wrong.

@ewaldgering6459

Жыл бұрын

@@pavelstaravoitau7106 pick up a history book abd take a look at where moscow is. And you may take an old map abd look exactly where "Russia" is on that. It has always been moscovia, not Russia. Russia is a construction invented by Peter the third, built on a lie

@pavelstaravoitau7106

Жыл бұрын

@@ewaldgering6459 Moscow on map is surrounded by Rus' cities. Just because Moscow isn't as old as Kiev, it doesn't make them not Rus'. Is Vladimir, Tver' and Suz'dal not Rus' for you too? Please find me primary Russian sources where they refer themselves as Moscovia. I know Russian, I can read it. There is a reason you won't find a source like that. Russians never called their country Moscovia and themselves Muscovites. They called their country Rus' and themselves variations of "Rusak", "Rusin", and so on. "Moscovia" is an exonym, what foreigners called Russia (some did it for political reasons).

@ReSSwend

Жыл бұрын

Kievan Rus was a slave-owning state in which the ancestors of the Swedes, Norwegians and Danes traded Slavic women and children with the Greeks. It is a fact. Neither Ukrainians nor Russians have anything to do with Kievan Rus, except that their ancestors were a commodity in it.

Why no mention of Nestor Mhakno?

@jonathanwilliams1065

Жыл бұрын

This is way before that monster

Khmelnytsky, he strongly weakened Commonwealth

@twoneedy

Жыл бұрын

No, the fucking Swedish did, not some random ass Cossacks that we beat like in every battle

@sircatangry5864

2 ай бұрын

​@@twoneedyPilavci? Zboriv? Batoh? The only victory Jan 2 kasimir achieved against cossacks was Berestechko, and this victory was so important (because they were none after or before) that this battle was painted at his sarcophagus.

Slava Ukraine!

@hazzmati

2 жыл бұрын

ukraine bot

@TURBOBLU-fx6mn

2 жыл бұрын

@@hazzmati you’re mad

we have been fighting the barbaric orient for the centuries , we Litwins know the drill ... "Let us begin with this evident fact: Muscovy does not belong at all to Europe, but to Asia. It follows that judging Muscovy and the Muscovites by our European standards is a mistake to be avoided."-gonzague de reynold, 19501 In methodological terms, one should de-Europeanise any analysis of Muscovy policy.- thomas gomart, 20062 "

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@R4mb0L

2 жыл бұрын

As a Crimean Tatar from Romania, i am deeply isulted by your bs comparison. Ukraine is invaded by Russia, and that's it. Stop it with the 13th century comparisons.

@captainfreedom3649

2 жыл бұрын

the "hordes" will finish the banderites and nazism once and for all. "Ukrainian" nationalists are the most hateful people on earth and pure evil.

@pavelstaravoitau7106

Жыл бұрын

The old racist trope, Russians are always the Eastern Horde. How do you feel reciting nazi propaganda?

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@nathanmchiyengi7883

2 жыл бұрын

Ukrainian are russians who are polonized

@DevletGiray

2 жыл бұрын

Less severe mistake, but you pronounce Sich as "Sic", when it's actually "Sich".

Russia was invited by Ukrainian people assembly (Rada) in Pereyaslav to help fight against the Commonwealth. How is it counts for invasion, you tell me

@alvarez985

2 жыл бұрын

and Cossacks became the most loyal Russian soldiers later

It should describe as Zelensky rebellion

Stаy strong Ukrаine 👏💪🇺🇦🇵🇹 Google translate : After the 2nd World War, 10-million Belarus was missing about 3 million of its inhabitants, but about 2 million were killed even before the war by the communist NKVD. In Belarus, 70 percent of all Belarusian writers were physically destroyed, scientists and artists were killed. (The troupe of the Third Belarusian State Theater of Vladislav Golubok was arrested in its entirety. Almost everyone was shot.) They were killed on a national basis. For the sake of this, the label "Natsdem" was coined (it means national democrat, although such a party did not exist). This label was attached to all Belarusians whom the Stalinists planned to exterminate. In the bowels of the NKVD, a non-existent anti-communist organization SVB ("Union for the Liberation of Belarus") was invented. Under the invented phantom, the NKVD carried out arrests, conducted an imaginary investigation, interrogated, tortured, tried, then exiled to Russia and shot innocent people. After the Riga agreement in 1921, Belarus was divided between Poland and Russia. The dividing line was drawn near Mensk. There was a secret order from the NKVD to exterminate the entire Belarusian population along the border. Russian invaders wanted to make a deserted zone here. The destruction was carried out by border troops. Trusted persons were given a rifle and a shovel. When such a border guard met in a deserted place (on a road, in a field, in a forest) a lonely Belarusian or Belarusian, or a child, he shot a person, immediately dug a hole with a shovel and covered up the corpse. That was the instruction. People in the villages were not so afraid of the "man with a gun" as they were of a soldier with a shovel. (These facts were published in the Belarusian press in the early 1990s.) In the 1930s, 95-99 percent (almost completely) were destroyed (exiled and shot) by the Belarusian communist-party and Soviet administration. They even destroyed the directorate and economic leaders. Russians from Russia were sent to the positions of murdered administrators and communist bosses-Belarusians. Russians (the so-called "nominees") came to Belarus, occupied vacant positions, received benefits, property, apartments, and the first thing they did was to close Belarusian schools, translate them into Russian, so that their children could study without burdening themselves with studying , as they said, "unnecessary" Belarusian language. Thus, the occupiers created a "Russian-speaking population" in Belarus. Ethnocide, linguacid, mnemacid and genocide were carried out by the Bolsheviks at the same time. The destruction of Belarusians by the Russian NKVD continued during the German occupation. In June 1941, during the first days of the war, the communists shot thousands of prisoners in prisons and on stages. Only in the Brest Fortress, where there was a terrible prison of the NKVD, they did not have time to liquidate all those arrested, some of them fled. Meanwhile, a large group of overseers and functionaries of the NKVD was blocked in the fortress by the Germans. They sat there for about a month until they died out. About 20 years after the war, the communists came up with a legend about the "heroic defense" of the Brest Fortress. It is noteworthy that a broad Soviet partisan movement was organized only in Belarus and partly in the ethnic Belarusian lands that were part of Russia (Smolensk, Bryansk). There was no partisan movement in occupied Russia. Why? Yes, because the plan for the destruction of the Belarusian nation continued to operate. Moscow, using the organs of the NKVD, dragged the masses of the Belarusian civilian population into the war against the Germans, and thus exposed the Belarusians to the German attack. The necessary work of struggle proceeded from an insidious plan and was carried out by vile methods. (Stalin wanted to get a double benefit.) The NKVD specifically killed a German near a Belarusian village or did some other provocation in order to provoke a punitive operation by the Nazis (who usually burned the entire village, most often along with the people). Thus, by the way, as a result of a special provocation by Soviet partisans, the famous Khatyn was also burned, which the communists then advertised to the whole world in the 70s as a typical victim of fascist atrocities. As a result of such a communist-fascist joint "work", more than 9 thousand villages were burned in Belarus. Therefore, by the end of the war, as a result of a special operation of the NKVD, many Belarusian commanders were sent to death, removed from command, killed and repressed. Their places were taken by Russians sent from Moscow and loyal NKVDs. In the summer of 1944, when the "Red Army" occupied Belarus, the Russians mobilized into the army on Belarusian territory. Tens of thousands of young Belarusian men, almost without training, were thrown to the front line. Russian commanders raised them in unnecessary attacks under the fire of German machine guns, without even giving weapons to their hands, or with rifles, but without cartridges. They died by the thousands, like grass under a scythe. And those who fled back fell under the bullets of the NKVD "blockade detachments". However, detachments fired in the back. This is how the destruction of Belarusians in the war continued, by the hands of the Germans and Russians. them at the same time. As the communists said, "in the struggle for the Soviet motherland." In the 1940s, the Russians took them to Siberia and tortured all the foresters and the so-called "kulaks" from Western Belarus there. They were taken out by wagons, in different rows.

@user-ub4ud9gy4d

2 жыл бұрын

Hey look, Nazi propaganda is alive and well in 2022.

@hybridforcesofthegdl3313

2 жыл бұрын

@@stormshadow5283 ivan, you are lying , cos your muscovy is renamed ulus of juchi. In methodological terms, one should de-Europeanise any analysis of Muscovy policy.- thomas gomart, 20062 "

@hybridforcesofthegdl3313

2 жыл бұрын

@@stormshadow5283 K. Marx: The Mongolian Origins of Muscovite Power The policy of the first Ruriks is completely distinguished from that of modern Russia ... The Gothic period constitutes for Russia only a chapter of Germanic invasions ... Thus the Russia of the Normans disappeared completely from the scene and those feeble vestiges which persisted were obliterated by the terrifying apparition of Genghis Khan. The origin of Moscovy lies in the bloody degradation of Mongolian slavery and not in the rude heroism of the Norman epoch. Modern Russia is nothing but a transfigured Moscovy ... Ivan Kalita, the First [4], and Ivan III, called the Great, incarnate, [in] the one, the growth of Moscow under Tartar domination; [in] the other, Moscow becoming an independent power, thanks to the disappearance of Tartar domination. In the history of these two individuals is summarized the entire Moscovite policy from the moment of its entry upon the historic arena. Ivan Kalita’s whole system may be expressed in a few words: the Machiavellism of the slave who wants to usurp power. His very weakness, his servitude, became for him the driving principle of his strength. Ivan III delivered Moscow from the Tartar yoke, not by a bold and decisive blow, but by the patient work of twenty years. He did not break it, but surreptitiously extricated himself from it. Thus this deliverance bears more resemblance to a natural phenomenon than to a human act. When the Tartar monster was on the point of uttering its last death-rattle, Ivan appeared at its death-bed as a doctor who makes the diagnosis and announces the end, and not a warrior who strikes the coup de grace. Every people appears to have grown in stature when it shakes off a foreign yoke. From Ivan’s hands, Moscovy emerged still more debased. To be convinced of this, it suffices to compare Spain and its struggle against the Arabs with Moscovy and its struggle against the Tartars. It is still interesting today to note to what extent Moscovy endeavored - just like modern Russia - to conduct attacks upon the republics. Novgorod and its colonies open up the cycle, the Cossack Republic follows suit, and Poland closes it ... Ivan seems to have wrested from the Mongols the chains which crushed Moscovy only to impose them upon the Russian republics.

@hybridforcesofthegdl3313

2 жыл бұрын

@@stormshadow5283 we have been fighting the barbaric orient for the centuries , we know the drill ... "Let us begin with this evident fact: Muscovy does not belong at all to Europe, but to Asia. It follows that judging Muscovy and the Muscovites by our European standards is a mistake to be avoided."-gonzague de reynold, 19501 In methodological terms, one should de-Europeanise any analysis of Muscovy policy.- thomas gomart, 20062 "