The Big ’Russian’ Lie

RE-UPLOAD to try and fight age restriction! A big thank you to The String Quartet Channel for the backing track: As for this video, in this I examine exactly why Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia are different countries, cultures, and peoples and how history, easily available to all, shows us this very, very clearly. Maiorov, Alexander Vyacheslavovich. “The daughter of a Byzantine Emperor–the wife of a Galician-Volhynian Prince.“ Byzantinoslavica-Revue internationale des Etudes Byzantines 72, no. 1-2 (2014): 188-233. Jarzyńska, Katarzyna. “Patriarch Kirill’s game over Ukraine.“ OSW Commentary 144 (2014): 14. Keleher, Serge. “Orthodox rivalry in the twentieth century: Moscow versus Constantinople.“ Religion, State and Society: The Keston Journal 25, no. 2 (1997): 125-137. Lynch, Allen. Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft. Potomac Books, Inc., 2011. Shevt︠s︡ova, Lilii︠a︡. Russia--lost in transition: the Yeltsin and Putin legacies. Carnegie Endowment, 2007. Pearce, James C. The use of history in Putin’s Russia. Vernon Press, 2020. Andriewsky, Olga. “Towards a decentred history: The study of the Holodomor and Ukrainian historiography.“ East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 2, no. 1 (2015): 17-52. Beevor, Antony. Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921. Penguin, 2022. Curanović, Alicja. “The attitude of the Moscow Patriarchate towards other Orthodox churches.“ Religion, State & Society 35, no. 4 (2007): 301-318. Cybulski, Marius L. Political, religious and intellectual life in Muscovy in the age of the Boyar Fedor Nikitich Iur’ev-Romanov aka The Grand Sovereign, the most holy Filaret Nikitich, patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’,(ca. 1550-1633). Harvard University, 1998. Graziosi, Andrea. “The Impact of Holodomor Studies on the Understanding of the USSR.“ East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 2, no. 1 (2015): 53-80. Koropeckyj, Roman. “Russia and Ukraine.“ TLS. Times Literary Supplement 6194 (2021): Kyrychok, O. “Role of the Kyivan Rus’ Writing in Strengthening Greek and Byzantine Understanding of the Political.“ Ucrainica Mediaevalia, 2 3 (2019): 63-70. Montefiore, Simon Sebag. Stalin: The court of the red tsar. Hachette UK, 2010. NEUTRALITY, ARMED. “CATHERINE II: LAST YEARS (1779-1796).“ Poppe, Andrzej. “The christianization and Ecclesiastical structure of Kyivan Rus’ to 1300.“ Harvard Ukrainian Studies 21, no. 3/4 (1997): 311-392. Plokhy, Serhii. The gates of Europe: A history of Ukraine. Basic Books, 2015. Prodan, Tetyana. “Honor and Dignity in the Kyivan Rus Period.“ ФІЛОСОФІЯ (2019): 81181. Screen, J. E. O. “Gajecky, G.“ The Cossack Administration of the Hetmanate“(Book Review).“ Slavonic and East European Review 59, no. 1 (1981): 156. Van Bergen, R. “IVAN III, THE GREAT.“ Russia, China and Eurasia 34, no. 4 (2018): 579-584. Voloshyn, Yuriy. “Household composition and family structures of Ukrainian Cossacks in the Second Half of the eighteenth century.“ The History of the Family 20, no. 1 (2015): 141-157. Wilson, Andrew. The Ukrainians: unexpected nation. Yale University Press, 2000.