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Three important myths about relations between Russia and Ukraine. These are bright legends from Russian, pre-revolutionary, and then Soviet propaganda, which are widely used by the current Russian government and state media. These ready-made explanations of Ukrainian history do not allow us to see a more complex historical picture. Even before February 24, endless references to fragmentary historical facts were spreading in the Russian information space: memes about Catherine, who founded "our" Mariupol and Odessa; Putin endlessly repeated that Ukraine was "invented" by Lenin... And for a large number of people, history, and specifically ancient history - not Soviet, but pre-revolutionary - has become an argument in the discussion of modernity. Archival footage net-film.ru The book "War and Punishment" can be found at the link: https://magaz.meduza.io/ 00:00 - Russians and Ukrainians are one people. (no, it's not) 2:15 - The story of Bohdan Khmelnytsky 5:30 - How the treaty on the "reunification of Russia and Ukraine" of 1654 came about 7:37 - Who created the myth of the "Russian world" 11:21 - How Stalin made Bohdan Khmelnytsky a symbol of Russian-Ukrainian friendship 12:30 - The myth of Mazepa's betrayal 13:57 - Mazepa and Peter I 15:26 - How Peter I betrayed Ukraine 16:22 - Pushkin as the creator of the myth of Mazepa 17:27 - The revenge of Peter I and the enslavement of Ukraine 18:15 - Mazepa = Petliura = Bandera 20:30 - Why Pushkin personifies the empire now 23:06 - Catherine II - the creator of Novorossiya 24:28 - How Catherine destroys the remnants of Ukrainian autonomy 25:10 - What does Voltaire have to do with it? 26:25 - Destruction of the Zaporizhian Sich 28:52 - How Potemkin created "Potemkin villages" from destroyed Cossack settlements 30:30 - Why the empire must die #zygar #ukraine #russia #history