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| Leonid Kuchma and his fantastic stories |
| 2024-01-15 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Vadim Bondar [Regnum] Former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma widely celebrated the anniversary of his anti-scientific work “Ukraine is not Russia.” And in the book published in 2003, and especially now, he emphasizes the theme of the fundamental differences between Ukrainians and Russians, referring to the Tatar-Mongol invasion, which allegedly created in the end some Muscovites - as a derivative of the Horde, and Ukrainians - who retained the Slavic core of Kievan Rus. Hence, they say, the fundamental differences in mentality, language (Russian is supposedly corrupted Tatar), imperial and at the same time slavish habits of the “Russians,” and so on. People in Ukrainian public pages sprinkle themselves generously with this cheap, deceitful confetti. But is this really the case? |
| Posted by:badanov |