A Brief History Of Ukraine (And Why Russia Wants To Control It)

A Brief History Of Ukraine (And Why Russia Wants To Control It)
In this animated video, historian Matt Lewis tells the story of Ukraine's turbulent and often surprising history. Beginning over a thousand years ago with the formation of the Kyivan Rus state, Matt tracks the development of Ukraine during the Mongol invasions, its incorporation into the Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth, and eventually it's allegiance with the tsars of a newly formed Russia.
The ongoing crisis in relations between Russia and Ukraine is threatening to engulf eastern Europe in a war on a scale not seen since 1945. The eyes of the world are focussed on the military activity as politicians scramble to encourage a diplomatic solution that will deescalate the conflict.
Ukraine was known as the breadbasket of Soviet Russia. It remains politically, militarily, and economically important to Russia today. Precisely why there is a dispute over the sovereignty or otherwise of Ukraine is a complex question rooted in the region’s history. It is a story more than a thousand years in the making. For much of this story, Ukraine did not
exist, at least not as an independent, sovereign state, so the name Ukraine will be used to help identify the region around Kyiv that was so central to the story. The Crimea is an important part of the story too and its history forms a part of the history of the relationship between Russia and Ukraine.
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[@kostiamarich]

In this video there aren't mentioned such vital points of Ukraine's history as the principality of Halych-Volyn, the emerge of Cossacks and their uprisings (which didn't have joining Russia as their main goal), the Cossack Hetmanate and Zaporozhian Sich. It wouldn't be so difficult to tell about that. However, a part of video is dedicated to the Crimean War, which relates to Russia's history, not that of Ukraine. Ukraine itself didn't fight the Crimean War, the Russian Empire did. I understand this is called 'brief history' but 'brief' doesn't mean 'inaccurate' or 'partial'.

[@causticvision]

There was no independent Ukraine back then, so how else can you relate. History of Ukraine is history of Russia, even if you don't like it. Even the name comes from the word "outskirts", which implies it was the border region.

[@kostiamarich]

@@causticvision So, I see you are claiming you can relate more than me? First of all, the history of Ukraine is the history of the free people of Ukraine, it belongs primarily to them. We inhabit this land for centuries, so we own it. Everything that has been done by our ancestors on their (and our) land is our history. It's quite simple. And we know our history. However, we don't arrogate neighboring countries' history. People must know what is theirs and what belongs to others. Ignorance causes historical delusions and wars. Concerning the word 'Ukraine'. The fact that it sounds similar to a Russian word 'outskirts' ('okraina') is not a linguistical or historiografical evidence of its meaning. The language was quite different in times when the word 'Ukraine' emerged. Initially, it was used to describe different lands of Rus bordering with other non-Rus territories. I haven't heard people using the word 'outskirts' to call any land that has an external border but I don't reject the fact that such border territories could have a specific term. Also, the word 'ukraina'/'ukrayna' was frequently synonymous to the word 'land' in different historical documents. In historical letters of the Cossack period, besides the word 'Ukraina' itself, the expression 'Ukraine of Little Rus' ('Ukrayna Malorossiyskaya') is used. Thus, it meant literally 'the land of Little Rus', not 'the outskirts of Little Rus'. The word 'Ukrayna' was used then as a name of the country and had nothing to do with 'outskirts'. If we even try to judge about the word 'Ukraine' through modern languages, I can mention some very similar words from Slavic languages. Here you go: UA: країна - country BY: краіна - country SK: krajina - country CZ: krajina - land PL: kraina - land SI: pokrajina - landscape ... and there is 'окраина', which corresponds to 'outskirts' in Russian. Only in Russian. I think it's clear now.

[@causticvision]

@@kostiamarich but no one takes your land, the problem is the government, you can still be proud of your history and ancestors even being included in other state. Real Ukraine (I mean historically) and the territories that belong to the state now are totally different territories. It's a complex thing, and the border between two countries shows nothing but the borders. Historically most people living in modern Ukraine are russian people, as were cossacks, I believe they called themselves russian.

[@kostiamarich]

@@causticvision Firstly. It's not true that no one takes our land. I can't get to many places in Ukraine where I was before because these places are now invaded by Russia. I can't see my acquaintances there due to the same reason. Don't pretend you have no clue what's going on. Russia is the biggest country in the world. So I genuinely cannot understand: why is Russia so obsessed with gaining new territories? Secondly. It is very ignorant to say people in Ukraine are actually Russians. Actually, it offends me but I see you believe in your words sincerely. Ukrainians in the past called themselves with different names, such as 'ukrainskiy narod', 'rus'kiy narod', 'ukrainskie malorossiyane', 'savromaty', 'kozakorussy', 'kozaki', 'rusyny' and many other. The Ukrainians are East Slavs, so they are heritors of Slavic tribes of Southern and Western Rus as well as of nomadic tribes of the steppe (but not so much). We have our own unique gene pool which differs from that of Russia (containing more Finnic and Central Asian elements) and Belarus (sharing more common with Baltic peoples). We have our own language, folklore, political traditions, national heroes and the most important - national self-consciousness that has been existing for centuries. It didn't emerged once independent Ukraine appeared on the map. Ukrainians have always known they are not the same as Russians, even if it's obvious we share some similarities and the common source - Kyivan Rus. You just have to accept that history is moving. We don't want to fight with anybody but we have to because someone always doesn't like our existence as a separate independent nation. But we are so. You don't speak Ukrainian, you don't know Ukrainian folk songs, you haven't read Ukrainian literature, you know not much about Ukrainian mentality, you probably haven't been to Ukraine. But this is ours, and it's not Russian. If we are East Slavs too and our ancestors had a similar ethnonym deriving from the word Rus, it doesn't mean we don't exist but only you do. Just accept that and stop looking for a trick.

[@causticvision]

@@kostiamarich Why, I accept your existence and respect your independence as a person. It's just that state is not the real face of the nation. Ukraine as a state has little to do with real ukrainian people, same as Russian Federation is not russian people. Politicians always use people. Same as inquisition was not the true face of christianity. Speaking of that you can't visit many regions (and there are much worse problems) - it's fucking sad, man, I feel for you. Still, it's not the territory expansion war, it's a result of an obvious american plot. No western country is saving Ukraine with those weapons and "help", they're choking the country and people in it's blood, feeding the war. RF won't stop even if they drawn own people in blood. I wish the government could just yield and let RF put it's own people in charge, so no blood would be shed, but the situation wouldn't appear in first place (I mean the war) if they were not american puppets already. The war is a desperate move, and it was provoked by the american (and british) deep state, same as other slavic conflicts. As if everyone forgot already. I'm aching for everyone who have to fight though they never wanted violence, regardless of their beliefs or nation and side in the conflict. Both sides are sending people to die for their interests, and the people is the lamb. This is mad.

[@gwynbleinn]

Much is not said, some things are mixed up and changed. It seems that the author read a couple of short articles about different aspects of the Ukrainian history, then tried to combine them without delving into the topic and important details

[@sonah9126]

Agreed - gotta love it when idiots merely google search a topic whilst throwing in stock footage, claiming they're subject matter experts. Disgusting.

[@3-Kashmir]

Lol this is true for most KZbinrs that talk about Muslim history!

[@DerekWilliamsMusic]

Can you please be specific?

[@susannamarker2582]

Well said. Lazy.

[@susannamarker2582]

@@sonah9126 He is too young to be an expert. Listen to his voice.

[@DenysZinkevych]

Not even a word about Galician-Volyn principality. Not even a word about the king Danylo who was the rightful king of Rus and heir of the Rurik dynasty, who build a lot of cities in the eastern part of Rus like Lviv and who was the only ruler of so-called Rus states who kept on fighting the Golden hord unlike nothern states who just gave up and paid tribute. Not even a word about Zaporozhian Sich and famous cossack hetmans. You could have mentioned Bohdan Khmelnitsky at least. Ukranian identity began to emerge more fully in 19th century, really? And what in your opinion our ancestors were doing before that time? They lived on this land and spoke their own language and were fighting for their identity. You've made good short documentary, but I'm really pissed that after the destraction of Kievan Rus you have a blank space like ukranians never existed and then they suddenly "emerge" only in 19th century.

[@matthewgillies7509]

As I said to some others who were unsatisfied with the video: this isn't an academic paper or a Ken Burns documentary, it is a historical appetizer. It is for the layman, it is designed to foster some interest in the regions' history, not dump it all on them at once.

[@abominabelleddcadent5634]

"who build a lot of cities in the eastern part of Rus like Lviv" since when is Lviv in EAST of any RUS??? Never was & never will be.

[@seaman5705]

@@abominabelleddcadent5634 He may have mistaken - east instead of west , but otherwise he's right .

[@SJ-nl6xl]

Don't worry. Soon Kiev will be renamed to Putingrad.

[@DenysZinkevych]

@@SJ-nl6xl Don’t worry. Soon Putin will join Zhirinovsky.

[@jasonskorik895]

I think one thing we can all agree on is that Ukraines history is incredibly complex and seemingly endlessly intractible. What is astonishing is that for all the centuries of being at the centre of so many vicious, tragic conflicts, pulling east/west/north/south and god knows what other directions, and with many actors in these events dearly wishing the place would just disappear, somehow, the entity of Ukraine still persists, suggesting to me that despite the efforts of corrupt states ( and yes, Ukraine is one of them), nuclear states playing proxy wargames, historical mis-information, and armchair geopoliticians, amongst many other external interferences, there is an undeniable national spirit and straightforward courage that binds Ukrainians. And proves that it truly is a "real" nation.

[@victorsempiana7099]

Well stated yet unfortunately the United States is to blame for it's current situation going back to 2014 with a CIA coup to overthrow a legal Democrat election,

[@kiki-zt8fz]

Может быть украинцы это действительно настоящая нация, но территория которая им досталась в следствие распада СССР абсолютно непропорциональна количеству украинцев. Они словно выиграли земли в лотерею. Если Россия каждый метр своей земли отвоевывала в кровопролитных сражениях, то Украине земли достались как случайный подарок. На всем Юго-востоке Украины проживают русские, которые хотели всего лишь иметь право разговаривать на своем родном языке и чтобы к ним не относились как к людям второго сорта.

[@dawidlijewski5105]

well, Western Ukraine was annexed into USSR territory during WW2 after Soviet Invasion of Poland. Before that that western area was mainly a part of Austro-Hungarian Empire, so not Russia. That's quite important factor, as this part (around Lviv) is staunchly pro-Western.

[@MrAinarut]

@@jonathanr72 Poles did similar things as Stalin on those territories... polonization, destruction of Ukrainian language, heritage, culture, enslavement and denial of basic human rights... wild times

[@aidanflanagan4953]

Ukraine was invaded by Russia during the Russian revolution almost right after it gained independence

[@shostakovich99]

In Habsburg times, Lviv was known by the German name Lemberg.

[@ems7623]

Your timeline is off. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved at the end of the First World War. There's twelve years between that dissolution and the Soviet invasion of Poland which you haven't accounted for.

[@davideloi9176]

Infact the nationalists and anti-russian come mainly from there, am I wrong? if they want a nazi Ukraine they can have it, but not with the borders of nowadays Ukraine because the people living in the east and in the south simply don't want them.

[@СтепанЧорнобровий-ч7ж]

The video missed many important moments from the history of Ukraine. Even within the framework of a short retelling of the history and situation of Ukraine.

[@rabbitrodger3448]

Aha. It tells nothing about inventing the gunpowder, the wheel, Jesus Christ beeing the Ukrainian and digging up the Black Sea. How dare they?! 😠

[@theobolt250]

Such as? Just name e few. We really want to know.

[@MazzBCD]

Even mentioning the Holodomor on Reddit will get you banned as a far right conspiracy theorist extremist.

[@ГригорійУгляниця-ы3э]

@@theobolt250 the most important moment from our history it is a The Ukrainian Revolution (1917-1921). In short, during those years, Ukrainians had their own state, the central bank, that is, the currency. There were many events in 4 years, managed by different people. The most important thing is that the Bolsheviks attacked our State and captured it and installed puppet governments of the so-called Soviet Ukraine.

[@Terk131]

Yes a few important key points are missing

[@vr_bob]

Completely disagree with the analogy that Ukraine to Russia is Cuba to the US. Russia always had the west at its doorstep. The US did not have the east at its - until Cuba received missiles.

[@RichVandewhatever]

Agreed- the US did not attempt to put nuclear weapons in Ukraine. This was about the basic right to self determination

[@RichVandewhatever]

Agreed- the US did not attempt to put nuclear weapons in Ukraine. This was about the basic right to self determination

[@rahulmodi8706]

Ukraine is Texas. If the US broke up and lost it.

[@lareeseblaque8303]

Absolutely right ✅️

[@casioak1683]

completely disagree with your analogy too: Poland, Ukraine, Baltic countries, Finland, Romania (Moldova) have nobody on their sides against Moscow expansionism. Has been that way even before US become superpower in 1945 or NATO was founded in 1949. Poland was even nearly incorporated into a Soviet state during Lenin's 1917-1920 war.

[@mdschaeffer]

I learned just this year that I have Ukrainian in my history and culture. I am 64 years old. my 87 y o dad emailed me a map of farmland showing 1 plat of farm land to have our last name. It had something to do with Czar Katerina offering farmland to German settlers. I was told since my earliest days that I and my 4 siblings were 100% German. Apparently when a folllowing czar kicked them off the land, they came to the United States. My fa, landed in S Dakota. Im trying to learn more about the post- Roman, pre-Christian Germanic/ medieval history of my German culture.

[@Chaldon-hl6yk]

*Empress Catherine the Great (Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg)

[@MrUntapishtim]

1. Catherine the Great invited Germans, German know-how to Russia. Not Ukraine. 2. If your ancestors were expelled by the Czar, they were expelled from Russia, not Ukraine. 3. I have never learned or heard that the Czar expelled Germans from Russia. They expelled Jews... But Germans? 4. Post-Roman Germanic areas became Christian very, very quickly. (became a part of Holly Roman Empire). And in the Middle Ages they were already Christian for about 900 years. So what post-Roman pre-Christian thing are you looking for?

[@mishaknopkin2199]

Russia not only wants to control Ukraine, it controls already its new/old territories (Dotentsk, Luhansk, Herson, Zaporozhie). People oh those territories voted on Referendums for return back to Mother Russia. There is Russian rouble there in circulation which replaced Ukrainian Grivna. And children there are educated in Russian. Hi from USA 😁😁

[@lawrencehill3486]

My mom was born on a Sioux Indian reservation in Timberlake S.D. on land the US govt gave to my grandparents who were from Russia, near Odessa. My grandparents left Russia not from pressure from the Russian government but because the lands the Russian govt. (Catherine the Great) gave German immigrants like my grandparents' ancestors had become scarce through consolidation of ownership over the course of a century, so by 1900 there was no place left for my grandparents to settle for themselves. In addition, the Tsar at the time wanted to draft my grandfather and his brothers into the Russian army to fight a war against Japan; another reason to leave. My family originated in Strassburg, Alsace before emigrating to Russia, and they still spoke German at home even with my mother's generation.

[@romanopaso]

if one of your siblings is a woman and can suck the metal from a rail then it is a good chance you are.

[@maksymkashchuk5420]

As it was mentioned in comments, no word about Galician-Volhynian principality (kingdom), no word about how cossacks appeared, about hutsuls (Oleksa Dovbush, Opryshky resistance), about Koliyivshchyna, unions with Poland and how was formed greek-catholic church, no word about spread of ukrainian language during Galician-Volhynian principality. The most important parts about our intelligence like: Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Ivan Kotlyarevskiy, Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrayinka, Myhaylo Drahomanov, Yevhen Pluzhnyk, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Myhaylo Hrushevskiy, Volodymy Sosura, Maksym Rylskiy, Vasyl Stus, Lina Kostenko. No words about "Executed Renaissance" shooted by soviets and Prague group "Prague school" (Olena Teliha) shooted by nazis in Kyiv in "Babiy Yar". No words about our national theatre and Solomia Krushelnytska. About our composers like Mykola Leontovych who wrote "Shchedruk" (Carol of the bells), Myhaylo Verbytskiy. About our producers like Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About our scienetists and engeeniers like: Ihor Sikorskiy, Illya Mechnykov, Mykola Amosov, Serhiy Korolev, Ivan Pulyuy, Volodymyr Vernadskiy. No words about Carpathian Ukraine in Czechoslovakia and resistance in Hust where was fight with hungarians when Hitler annexed Czechoslovakia. You missed these important parts of our history and make other people think that we always were part of russia (that stealed name Rus and named itself so in 18 century)

[@jannmutube]

---- > I didn't get the impression that Ukraine was always part of Russia. My understanding is that the video referred to the Cosacks as mongols who invaded the Kyivan state, people, originally, from Sweeden, Finaland and tha Baltic states. It would seem that Russia has less of a claim to Ukraine than does the Norwegian and Baltic states. The video explains that Russsia, Belsaus emerged from, formed after the Kyivan state(Ukraine). . To me, it seems that Russia wants to claim the culture of Ukraine even as they are destroying it. Russian culture, today, seems like the culture of Stalin.. Putin's recent seizure of Ukrainian grain seems no less horrific than Stalin's Holodomor of 1932-1933. What Russia is doing is war crimes and genocide. I wouldn't want to see Russian civilian refugees but I think Ukraine should not be restrickted from returning fire that comes from inside Russia. I hope Ukraine can establish its independence permanently.

[@maksymkashchuk5420]

@@jannmutube thanks for understanding. We ukrainians wish collapse of russia, because without it this war would repeat in a few years and then again it will look like endless fight. But we don't want to annex some regions (even if they historically belongs to us: fully Slobidska Ukraine and Kuban regions), because we would recieve more problems from it. Also I would mention about our ukrainian intelligence during all history. In our ukrainian history books a great attention is concentrated at our intelligence and we learn about them on our ukrainian literature lessons and on our lessons of ukrainian history, but when I see some information or videos about our History there are no mentions about Taras Shevchenko, Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Ivan Kotlyarevskiy, Lesya Ukrainka, Ivan Franko, Yevhen Pluzhnyk, Vsevolod Nestayko, Maksym Rylskiy, Vasyl Stus, Mykola Khvyloviy or any other poets.

[@jannmutube]

@@maksymkashchuk5420 --- > Historically, Russia has no special claim of origin or cultural heritage over Ukraine. Putin's effort to destroy Ukrainian culture is an effort to legitimize the Putin regime's lie of, itself, being"mother Russia" using genocide as a tool to establish revisionist history . The ignorance of the media in general is disturbing. However, I was not aware of the history until I viewed this video .... Putin, surely, knew that Ukraine would not be accepting of his "special military operation". Russia's current military tactics are steeped in its historical practice of genocide against the Kyiv Rus State (Ukraine). .... @ 5: 43, 1804, a Russian separatist movement in Ukraine banned teaching Ukraine language; .... @ 6: 52, 1876 , another ban on teaching Ukrainian language, also banned books, art, and public forums in Ukraine language; ....@ 7: 58, 1930s, the Holodomore - state sponsored famine by Stalin, stole grain and animals starved 4 million Ukrainians to death in order to finance his own agenda, . . ..@ 13: 10, Kyiv appellate court convicted Stalin, posthumously, of genocide against Ukraine in 2010.

[@60tbird1]

Excellent comment.

[@albertkarle7782]

Nobody steal your history... belorussian ukrainians and russians have the same ancestors... deal with it. Bye the way, in the 15th century the Greeks call the people of Rus, rossija.

[@mackenzied4598]

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana (1863)

[@Jabberstax]

That's been disproved many, many times

[@stronkserbia444]

those who cannot think of original comments are condemned to put pointless quotes instead

[@Nancy-nc4sw]

@@stronkserbia444 Better- those who do not LEARN from the past are condemned to repeat it. There's nothing pointless about it- IT IS TRUE.

[@stronkserbia444]

@@Nancy-nc4sw I'm sure this is a repeat comment lol

[@Elenasn]

They repeated it only because they remembered exactly how to. How would they invate my country if they didn't know it's possible?

[@C01A60]

Totally miss the story about the energy resources in East and south Ukraine..

[@astranger448]

Yep, my thoughts too. Ukraine is full to the brim with unexploited(yet) resources AND they were moving towards the EU. They would have become russia's biggest competitor for oil, gas and all the other goodies they have in their soil or grow on it. No surprise russia wants to put a stop to this. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJfXoqKQhNesetE

[@МаргаритаГеоргиева-ъ4ц]

Ukraine's rich history, from the Kyivan Rus to its struggles for independence, makes it a captivating topic for any History Documentary, showcasing its resilience and cultural heritage.

[@72badry]

Slava Ukraini!

[@clauderosier9328]

the map of ukraine from 1922 is not accurate, the territory was much smaller until 1945.

[@calicocat8213]

Until Stalin in 1945 and Nikita Khrushchev in 1954. Prior to that, Lenin, who allotted huge swaths of historically Russian territories to the Ukrainains.

[@Sashalexandros]

@@calicocat8213 also hungarian, polish, romanian

[@calicocat8213]

@@Sashalexandros That, I think, was Stalin after 1945 (Yalta Conference). The fact is, the Ukrainians have never been known as kind or at least tolerant to minorities and/or cohabitants of any terrain. Any experiences or recollections, family history?

[@Sashalexandros]

@@calicocat8213 Parts of Basarabia were attributed to USSR in 1940, when it was ocupied briefly by soviets. In fact, in the early soviet days the Party's leaders were ukraineans, theese 2 facts combined could allow to believe that the plan to divide romanian lands were at least made in the 30's. I can say only that in the attempt to destroy romanian population, my family name was ukrainized as an attempt to lower romanian the population number. Also I know that ukraineans have very cheauvenistic jokes about us, unbased. They didn't integrate well into society. In ukrainean history, they clame that they have been living here for hundres of years, yet the census of prior to russian ocupation shows that the percentage of foreign ethnicities was 11%, which became majority by 1918. It evolved into conflict with ukraineans who came on our lands as colonizers, they wanted to rip parts of our country and integrate into ukrainean state. Understandable sentiment, but don't tear pieces of other people's houses. Also search "ukrainean territorial demands at Paris peace conference 1919".

[@calicocat8213]

@@Sashalexandros Thanks, I'll make sure to look it up.

[@loafiv]

Ukraine has been through a whole lot. damn

[@peterjowyk637]

I agree with Lewis Fadipe 100 %. This fight has been going on for over 1000 years!!!

[@bluemoon6380]

Ukraine has been a free nation for 30 years and has every right to remain free. Peace for Ukraine.

[@kellynestegard5208]

@@bluemoon6380 Free to murder their own citizens? They could've had peace. They chose war, or, to be precise, they allowed their leaders to drag them into war. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

[@romanopaso]

@@bluemoon6380 it has not been free for a day, it is now in the hands of the USA as we speak. It will be free when the international world will leave it alone, that includes Russia.

[@jorgeabuauad]

@@bluemoon6380no free not own by corrupt oligarch Jews helping the cia who use Nazis in exile in Canada .

[@abominabelleddcadent5634]

Decent compendium but role of Poland in Western Ukraine up to 17.09.1939 is completely neglected.

[@PurpleTapesss]

Polland was same as russia.....were killing Ukrainians and its language

[@michaelillingworth6433]

In 1991 Ukraine voted 93% to be independent, with 84% of the population taking part in the vote. I think this says all I need to hear. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦❤️❤️❤️🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦❤️❤️

[@ИванСтоляров-щ2л]

Lie

[@saymyname3097]

​@@ИванСтоляров-щ2л The word Lie doesn't cut it. Make your point tell us something we don't know. Surely.

[@mdschaeffer]

prove your point or move on and let the potty-trained people talk...@@ИванСтоляров-щ2л

[@TheRtm68]

Why when you had a choosing president he was shovels away back in 2014 by a coup????? Because he was Russian minded and the NATO wanted control over this country!!! With this willing of the NATO they didn’t hold on the agreement in the Minsk papers! And what did the Ukrains back in 1950???, almost a Armageddon created!!! And what did the Ukrains after 2014 with theire own people in the Donbas/crimea??? They are proving to be corrupt, why had Zelenski fired his generals???? So not slava ukrain, but slava freedom! War never solved a problem!

[@TheRtm68]

@@saymyname3097there is so much you don’t know, so do we don’t know! But do you’re research and the reason why you need to choose one side is totally ridiculous! This war is not based only on a part of the country, Geo politics go way back to at least 1918 and up to the future! The most people based theire conclusion on one part of the history and wave the previous history away! Where two sides have a conflict both sides are responsible for this! And where two dogs fight for the bone, Zelenski though he get away with it!😅

[@meganreed4619]

saying "Ukraine formed USSR with Russia" sounds like Ukraine voluntarily joined USSR. in fact Red Army occupied and set puppet government in Kharkov, exactly like they do now in Donetsk and Kherson. and letter occupied rest of Ukraine including Kiev

[@БелаяГвардия-о4ю]

Тогда уж красная армия оккупировала всю Россию! Это ж гражданская война была. И Украина тогда была неотъемлимой частью Российской Империи. Среди Малороссов красные тоже были, как и везде.

[@sayler7960]

Yes, only 90% of the leadership of the Ukrainian Republic were Ukrainians ahaha

[@aAverageFan]

Ukraine formed USSR with Russia just like how Scotland formed UK with England.

[@Victor.Hugo1]

I listened to an interview with Kryuschev’s son where he clearly stated that control over crimea was given over to Ukraine because it was one of the most impoverished regions at that time and needed a local government to start managing it.

[@lch7732]

Crimea was still massively ethnically Russian at the time, they lend their trust to keep their Russians safe, and well to Ukraine, and when the coup happened which put a Pro-Western, anti-Russian president in 2014, they obviously saw a great mistake there, and went to liberate their Russian lands, Donbass regions broke away for the same reason since they were ethnically Russian. The first Ukraine-Russo war was the most reasonable conflict ever in Eastern European history.

[@PurpleTapesss]

@@lch7732 ha ha bot

[@xelldincht4251]

apparently, Crimea did not have a lot of sweat water and needed this water from the Donbas region that's why it moved from Russian SSR to Ukrainian SSR (among other logistic reasons)

[@haydencarn8737]

@@lch7732 Yeah, but people on here are just going to call you a bot because they lack the historical knowledge and general brain capacity to deal with any of this.

[@darkknight9461]

Crimea is the historical homeland of the Crimean Tatars. Throughout history, the Russian Empire and the USSR implemented policies to settle Russians in various territories or assimilate local populations into Russian identity, later using these demographic changes to justify territorial claims. Such imperial strategies have historically placed countries like Ukraine at a disadvantage. The narrative that Russia seeks to defend Russian-speaking populations is misleading and propagandistic. The reality contradicts this claim, as the conflict has resulted in death, including 200k+ killed and more wounded of Russians and many Russian speaking people from Ukraine, e.g. siege of Mariupol, Kharkiv bombing. The war has devastated the Donbas region, which Russia professed to protect, Russia send people from Donbas region into meat grinder and destroys towns and villages of Donbas by its offensive. Russia is fascist-like state, they it showed it's true face.

[@patriot2071]

It is worth adding that the Cossacks entered into military alliances with the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate and the Swedish kingdom in their struggle for independence, and not only with the Moscow kingdom. The name Russia from the word Rus was stolen by Peter the Great to create an empire. And Crimea is Ukraine. This video does not reflect the full history of Ukraine, it is too one-sided and untrue.

[@beckysharpe7268]

Slava Ukraini! A brave country and deserving of our help. Thank goodness we have given it.

[@stephanieromaynehebert3660]

Their interest in Ukraine was not complex nor historical. Their interest in Ukraine was for one simple reason: energy. It’s why they made an immediate B line for all three major energy production facilities in Europe.

[@TheNaijaboy007]

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[@viktorias63]

very naive and surface level view point

[@stephanieromaynehebert3660]

@@viktorias63 ok, so you believe that the largest country in the World are fighting for more land mass with a virtually non existent GDP and an economy that barely meets the definition of “emerging?”

[@mamamia8733]

not far from the truth honestly

[@stephanieromaynehebert3660]

I wonder who hid their reply…

[@guinpucan]

Can bashers make their own version of Ukraine history please? I’ll be glad to watch your own version.

[@Conssend]

"Our version" of history, as you define it, is academic and fundamentally different from that offered by the Kyiv manipulators, in that it is based on an evidence base, on historical documents generally recognized by the world community.

[@kehenabeach4418]

I didn’t see anywhere your comments on the CIA and The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made?!!!

[@MazzBCD]

Even mentioning the Holodomor on Reddit will get you banned as a far right conspiracy theorist extremist.

[@chingizsalla]

@@kehenabeach4418 fool

[@kehenabeach4418]

@@chingizsalla is someone‘s feelings hurt?

[@magpiegirl3783]

For goodness sake, people. It is titled A Brief History of Ukraine. Brief means that some things will be left out. This video does not purport to be the COMPLETE history of Ukraine.

[@meganreed4619]

i would agree, but it's so brief that it's misleading. E.g. Ukraine have not joined USSR. Red Army set puppet government in Kharkov and later occupied rest of Ukraine, pushed Ukrainian government out of Kiev. But in the video it sounds like Ukraine has joined voluntarily. While in fact it was simply occupied by Lenin.

[@moni1383]

Agree but the video makes it sound as if Russia has preexisting claims to Ukraine and glosses over the actual historical truths.

[@Marcosnationalistos]

Stalin was a Georgian and his first deputy in Soviet Occupied Ukrainian was Lazar Kaganovich a Jew......Kaganovich was the architect behind the Holomodor. I honestly and genuinely felt that this was worth stating!

[@friedrichs753]

What’s the point you’re trying to make..?

[@Marcosnationalistos]

@@friedrichs753 You can't figure that out for yourself?

[@friedrichs753]

@@Marcosnationalistos Surely you aren’t implying that Jews are behind everything are you? I can’t watch a single thing related to history without someone making some asinine implication about Jewish people being in some evil global conspiracy. Unless I’m mistaken about your point, as per my first comment..?

[@muslimcel4581]

​@@friedrichs753oy vey!

[@tomblade]

​@@friedrichs753his point is that he's a bigoted anti-semite.

[@jamesappling1212]

History is always written in the Blood of the Innocent. This current battle is just beginning 😔

[@lch7732]

Ukraine is far from innocent but okay, have fun with your lies. Russia and Ukraine both commit atrocities against each other since 2014, normal things.

[@rhino_force7679]

you cannot write in blood, it's liquid.

[@jamesappling1212]

@@rhino_force7679 Sorry Rhino. A lot of history has been written in blood. A common theme around the World.😔

[@guydegregg6869]

Comparing Ukraine with Cuba is ludicrous, the Ukrainians willfully gave up their nuclear weapons and the US had no motivation for arming them with missiles. Not one of the better documentaries on this subject.

[@Lubet0TheGreat]

You are misinformed. Ukraine is exactly the same situation to Russia that was Cuba to US, just closer and in bigger scale. It's not about giving up the nukes. In 2008 Bucharest convention NATO declared that one of it's main goals in the future is having Ukraine in the alliance. Weeks before the war started Ukraine's president wanted to revoke the non-nuclear status of Ukraine, meaning accepting NATO nuclear weapons in his territory. Russia couldn't let her biggest enemy to have nukes so close to the border pointing at her and attacked. If you think it was overreaction just read about the Cuban crisis in 62, The only reason the US didn't start nuclear war then was their disadvantageous position at striking first.

[@pagongturtle2217]

@Guy DeGreg Ukrainians does not own those nuclear weapons, it was owned by Russia. No reason why not gave up since Ukraine does not have the launching codes. Research first for you to have better understanding.

[@guydegregg6869]

@@pagongturtle2217 I understand plenty but you missed a lot and you don't even understand the argument, go sit at the kiddy table if you can't keep up with the conversation.

[@pagongturtle2217]

​@@guydegregg6869" the Ukrainians willfully gave up their nuclear weapons" Answer: Ukrainians does not own those nuclear weapons, it was owned by Russia. No reason why not gave up since Ukraine does not have the launching codes. Research first for you to have better understanding. Read properly "give up their nuclear weapons" I repeat to make it clear for you slow brain, those nuclear weapons is not owned by Ukrainians, got it? Before pretending that you understand plenty be sure that you get the correct information. Are you trying to deny your mistake? Pathetic lol

[@pagongturtle2217]

@@guydegregg6869 Lol and now he is quite. Probably cannot keep up with a kid in the conversation.

[@jayro792]

I could have missed it… but where is the root of the prominence of the Ukraine?? You just briefly mention the Cossacks and then from no where say the Ukrainian language was banned… but don’t shed any light on how Ukraine and its language came to be proliferated?? Feels like an important aspect of this history is missing.

[@Dirtmiy]

About Ukraine: nation created in Lenin's time (not to be confused with the history of the city of Kiev and/or with Kievan Rus & its Rurik dynasty started by Prince Rurik of Novgorod; Novgorod is an ancient Russian city), but only theoretical/administrative terms, since it remained under Russian control in the Soviet era, the conformation of its territory today consists mainly of territories that have historically belonged to the Russians (from the center to the eastern and southern side) and the western side has historically belonged to Poland. Important issue about Poland: the h4tred of the Poles towards the Russians is immense and it is they who have partly influenced the western part of Ukraine, this h4tred is historical, since Poland and Russia have had multiple w4rs for several centuries, even the Poles invaded Moscow at some point and were driven out by the Russians (look for the monument to Minin and Pozharsky in Moscow's Red Square). Now if you add this historical h4tred towards Russia with Neo-Naz1 elements (in western Ukraine) that by default relate Russia to the greatest enemy of the Naz1s, that is, the Soviets, who ended up destroying their beloved H1tler, you will have a gigantic anti-Russian national1sm, which the United States has been able to use as a geopolit1cal tool against the Russ1ans. On the current crisis: The people of Donbass are ethnic Russians and they did not support the 2014 coup, as those who took control of Kiev (with US backing) are openly xenophob1c against the Russians, they even banned the Russian language in Ukraine, which is the native language of the people living in Donbass. Ethnic Russians have lived in Donbass for several centuries, so at the moment they are defending their families and the lands where they have lived for many generations. People living in Donbass voted in a referendum to gain more autonomy and stay inside Ukraine, the latter being important as it shows that the Western narrative that the Donbass conflict was started by "pro-Russian separat1sts" is not is so true and this was part of the typical western pr0paganda to confuse the world about reality and adapt everything to the western narrative of "it's Russia's fault", I repeat "the people of Donbass did not vote for independence from Ukraine and/or to join Russia, they voted to have more autonomy within Ukraine", in fact this is the basis of the famous Minsk agreements that Kiev and the West refuse to implement (accusing Russia of not complying with them, when Russia does not has obligations in the agreement), and it has to be repeated that the people of Donbass wanted this because they simply never accepted the 2014 coup, which brought to power people who h4te ethnic Russians. The Ukrainian army launched an 4ttack on these regions in 2014, moving its entire 4rsenal against the civilians of Donbass, this topic is important since the w4r takes place in the lands of Donbass, therefore civilian v1ctims are always the civilians who live in the Donbass (usually the Western media always interviews Ukrainian civilians living in regions that do not suff3r the real consequences of these w4rs), the people of Donbass won practically all the b4ttles, there were a lot of material on youtube about these b4ttles, where they showed civilians f1ghting aga1nst the Ukrainian army, but youtube has cens0red almost everything. These victories should not really surprise us too much, since the people of Donbass were defend1ng their homes against people who h4te Russians (their ethn1city), any of us would fight with full force if you see that your family is thre4tened by crazy rac1sts that h4te your friends and family, today after all the 4ttacks they have received by Kiev, if they hold a new referendum it is very sure that they will vote to join Russia, they have already seen the true face of the Westerners and of those they control Kiev today. It is true that Russ1a supports those Russ1ans who live in Donbass, in fact it has more right to do so than the illegal military presence of the Y4nkees in northern Syr1a ("support1ng" the K*rds and steal1ng Syrian oil along the way), the inhabitants from Donbass are ethn1c Russ1ans, they are in lands close to the Russ1an border (secur1ty issue), they have an obvious connection with Russ1an culture and above all they share many family members with Russ1ans, for this reason after 2014 many residents of Donbass have obtained a Russian p4ssport (Russian citizensh1p).

[@RostyslavKobizsky]

@@Dirtmiy what a bullshit you just shitted on the Internet 😅 go to the restroom please, Putler poppy

[@theobolt250]

Everything that is said here cannot be denied (at least for a part or bigger part). But the Ukranian language is just the oldest form of Russian. Just as Belorus has also it's own variation thereof. The factors that do differentiate it from "regular" Russian are geographical, ethnical and maybe to some extend religious/political. Such a proces of differentiation is seen everywhere in the world. So, don't forget, Ukranian is OLDER than Russian!

[@theobolt250]

And yes, you missed it! Like this video said it STARTED with the Duchy of Kyiv! They were dominant from the 10th up to the 13th century. In the beginning of the video. Can't miss it actually.

[@addamriley5452]

@@Dirtmiy 2014 wasn’t a coup bro… it wasn’t an organisation it was the people themselves… in dictionary terminology that’s known as a revolution, but please do go on about how Russia is the second country in history after nazi germany to invade a country based on existential threat horseshit. They’re not xenophobic either… you just keep threatening them to the point where they can’t stand you (can’t blame them)… and the US only backed them through infrastructure, nothing wrong with that… moral of the story if Russia wanted to avoid this… don’t threaten people, don’t starve people to death and don’t invade under horseshit accusations.

[@annanova6953]

Very simplified. The territory of Ukraine that became part of the USSR was much larger, including Kuban, which was later exchanged for Crimea. Also, Ukraine was the largest supplier of gas to Europe, and has a lot of oil. This is one of the reasons for Moscow's attack, because it got out of its control.

[@cranegantry868]

Hahahahaha, what a pile of garbage.

[@nellyv1566]

Stop lying about the Kuban! Kuban has never been a part of Ukraine, and then there was no Ukraine as such!

[@y.gromyk]

I was expecting to see a well-made research, but instead it was a video with many skipped essential parts of Ukrainian history,

[@mishaknopkin2199]

Russia not only wants to control Ukraine, it controls already its new/old territories (Dotentsk, Luhansk, Herson, Zaporozhie). People oh those territories voted on Referendums for return back to Mother Russia. There is Russian rouble there in circulation which replaced Ukrainian Grivna. And children there are educated in Russian. Western Ukraine will return to Poland. Hi from USA 😁😁

[@y.gromyk]

@@mishaknopkin2199 misha jdy nakhyr

[@mishaknopkin2199]

@@y.gromyk idu, idu vmeste s territoriyami. Ya kstati "Ukrainez" v Amerike iz Odessy. Skoro i moya Odessa ujdjot v Rossiju.

[@sergarlantyrell7847]

Nothing about the Natural gas reserves (including large, off-shore deposites around the Crimean peninsular) that were found not long before Ukraine moved to make closer ties with the EU in 2014, lessening the EU and most to NATO's reliance on Russia for energy & heating during the winter AND threatening the profits of an industry that makes up around 1/3 of the Russian economy?

[@sonah9126]

This is the work of an individual who has google searched the history of the region within one day, before writing a quick transcript to some stock footage and adobe after effects. This is amateur to say the least and an insult to the Ukranian people. I'm suprised this pisstake is still online for viewing.

[@calicocat8213]

NATO reliance in energy? Why would a "Defensive Alliance" need energy in quantities it'd have to "rely on"?

[@deliafamatigan8764]

I agree that it was intentional starvation that happened in Ukraine perpetrated by evil Russians. With many peoples all over the world praying for Ukraine and the USA and allies helping Ukraine from Feb. 24, 202 to present, Victory of Ukraine will happen and all territories occupied by Russians will be liberated. Slava Ukraine. From USA.

[@markhylton4680]

Long live Ukraine. Ukraine will get theirs Justice one day. And all of us will be free from tower. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇺🇦🕊

[@Adam-cu3ue]

Heil tsar putin

[@golubeva-vocal]

God! How are they brainwashing you... Hundreds of people who fled from Mariupol are screaming that Azov (who is acting on the orders of that same Zelensky) bombed and burned their houses, killed and tortured people. People truly hate him! Mutilated bodies of women with German fascist swastikas were found in bomb shelters! Azov, under the pretext of organizing green corridors, led people to be shot. Children, women, old people ... Russians, unarmed military prisoners on camera, were shot at the legs and their throats were cut! In Bucha, people were killed when Russian troops left from there! And they killed people with white bandages on their hands (a sign of civilians). And all this is video and photo evidence. You will never be shown this ... And the Russian people are crying! Weeps from the fact that we have always been taught that Ukraine and Russia are brothers. And in Ukraine there are people who love and want to go to Russia! We will gladly accept them! But this cannot be forgiven! Please wake up! You can not look at the situation only from one side! 😭😭😭

[@kbajdjfn3635]

Bro you added a trans flag

[@Isawwhatyoudid]

@@Adam-cu3ue huh? thats a joke right?

[@БелаяГвардия-о4ю]

Вот это насмешка - Азовцы и другие "арийцы" сражаются за права трансов. Вот это поворот для них, если они что то осознали хд

[@JerzyZajaczkowski]

Until 1939, the western border looked different than in the film. What is now called Western Ukraine was then part of Poland and there was no Holodomor there, but ironically the Ukrainians, after Germany and the USSR invaded Poland, killed their Polish neighbors there, which is now called the Volhynia genocide.

[@yuriyseliuk4120]

Polish people also killed in revenge a lot of civilians, which is not making it right as well even though it was revenge. Its Volhynian tragedy and there are two "players" in it

[@yuriyseliuk4120]

but in 1917 it looked as it if before Poland attacked newly formed UPR (Ukrainian People's Republic)

[@yuriyseliuk4120]

I am wondering, when polish people will understand how we are important to each other, without free Poland free Ukraine is impossible and without Ukraine was never free Poland for to long.

[@halnywiatr]

The comparison to Cuba is a bad analogy. The United States has not considered Cuba to be a "Little America".

[@anneslot7013]

Therefore, they just staged a sanctions blockade there and literally supported the open state revolution (Bay of Pigs) lol

[@AChapstickOrange]

Hear hear.

[@neilbaldwin592]

If the European countries don’t get their fingers out and send some real meaningful help to the brave Ukrainian people it’s going to be a very brief history indeed.

[@michaelmazowiecki9195]

EU countries contributions are currently double that of the USA!

[@honeybunch5765]

Seems like it has always been a battlefield.

[@miroslavdusin4325]

Living next to Russia does not provide any other option.

[@Elenasn]

Ukraine is located in the middle of everything. Of course our territories must be hell with all the wars we have in the world. Like, did we have a choice during WW2? They just needed to use our roads to get to their end point. That's if we talk in general about Ukraine in the world.

[@RomanKushnir]

Europe still knows very little about the history of Ukraine. During the 300 years of occupation, russia was able to impose its vision. In fact, Ukraine has constantly fought for its independence and has always had a separate culture, language and history.

[@dennythedavinchi3832]

That does not explain that they had separate culture. Look where the Rus came from already and most of the recent history of annexation but only 30 years independent in modern days.

[@RomanKushnir]

​@@dennythedavinchi3832 Terribly erroneous view, which I hope is explained by the lack of knowledge about the history of the region. History of Ukraine: -Trypillia culture -Scythia -Sarmatia -Slavs (russia is mainly Finno-Ugric tribes) -Kievan Rus (Moscow is a very distant abandoned suburb) -The Rus' principality is a part of the Commonwealth -Hetmanate - an independent state of the Cossacks -(Occupation by the Russian Empire) -Ukrainian People's Republic and Western Ukrainian People's Republic -(Occupation by the Russian Empire) -Independent Ukraine More than 1,000 years of state formation is quite different from the history of Moskovian State (russia). Now is only the time to return to historical authenticity. But the global difference is even deeper - the Ukrainians are a Slavic tribe of settled farmers who have lived on their land for centuries. And the russians (this is the name of the Finno-Ugric tribes - Chudi, Vespa, Moksha, Merya, etc.) are nomads. Therefore, it is not surprising that their army eats dogs, rapes and steals everything they can see. Europe has long been deceived by the mysterious "russian spirit", but in reality it is nothing more than a musty smell from the savagery of cavemen. I understand how categorical it sounds, but this opinion is shared by all who at least once had a common border with the so-called russia.

[@calicocat8213]

What were your achievements during "the 300 years of occupation"? While a part of the Russian Empire, Poland produced world-renowned Marie Curie and Frederick Chopin, among others. Tadeo Kosciuszko fought for freedom in America, where he became close to Thomas Jefferson (actually, named him an executor of his Will & Testament, in which he asked for his sizable assets to be used to buy freedom to as many Blacks as possible).

[@YorshZed]

​@@RomanKushnir Moscow was founded by mostly Vyatich people (and partially Krivich people) who were both East Slavic tribes.

[@RomanKushnir]

@@YorshZed Who lived across the Moskva? Which tribes was hundred kilometres around? By the way, do you know what in local language means Moskva?

[@lenniedoroja4400]

I think the more important question is. Is Europe now finally see why the US Government what to hold the region? I mean how's the economics now a days?

[@mark4347]

Could use some minor editing in the beginning several minutes, and clearer speech in a few places, but all in all a presentation worth watching. Subscribing.

[@berechianyanwu1154]

Even brothers separate to form their own families. It should not be annoying to see regions separating and forming their own countries. Circumstances and occasions occur to warrant these separations.

[@Cheapphilosophysale]

@@schopensbulldog this is not true. A sense of Ukrainian and Ruthenian identity separate to Russians and Poles has existed for centuries. There have been several attempts at an independent state of Ukraine that were crushed by either Poland or Russia over the years before we achieved independence through a referendum (in which all oblasts voted for independence). Pan-slavism is just imperialism under another name.

[@sandraleiva1633]

Not when you lost over 50 million people in WW2 and have been invaded countless times by the West. Being that Ukraine is flat and easy to invaded and reach the Russian core.

[@mackenziedog1872]

@@sandraleiva1633 Sandra) thanks for adding. What inspires you?

[@ColaSpandex]

@@schopensbulldog Anglos never divided themselves? Are you kidding? Did we just imagine the War of Independence? The fact that we still cooperate does not make us a single nation. The Anglos are Germanic (in case you didn't know). We still cooperate with Germany and France much of the time but the Germanic tribes that founded these SEPARATE nations went their SEPARATE ways a long time ago (following the decline of Rome). I imagine a lot of Ukrainians are more than willing to cooperate with their Russian cousins. They just don't want to be their pets. They don't want to be Russian. Just like Americans don't want to be Brits. They want to do things a bit differently. And good for them. Oh, and as far as we know, the Anglos (as you call us) were actually mostly Saxons (a closely related but SEPARATE Germanic tribe that had DIVIDED even further back in time). But that's an even longer story of separate nation building.

[@Dirtmiy]

It's not about fraternal relations, it's about NATO. Russia protects its interests. If Ukraine had remained neutral, had not conceived of letting NATO into Crimea, had not engaged in the genocide of Russians on its territory, there would have been no war.

[@Nauda999]

@5:00 "Following war between Ottoman and Russian empires. Crimea was briefly independent before being annexed" The Crimean Khanate had some independence from 1774 till 1783 it was annexed. But The Crimean Khanate Tatars had nothing in common with Ukrainian Cossacks living around Kiev.

[@beringstraitrailway]

Ok slow down, wait a second...so Vikings sailed from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea? I want to see a whole video on how that works!

[@TheRogueEmpire]

there are a lot of rivers in the area, and a lot of the boats could be taken up and walked short distances to other parts of rivers.

[@HowardRoark5150]

The Vikings went all over the place in Europe. I thought they had only wreaked havoc in the Baltic and North seas and the English Channel areas but found out later that I was WAY off.

[@Terk131]

@@HowardRoark5150 They we’re in the US way before Columbus

[@fernandough2117]

@@Terk131 Some say Columbus never even made it to the United States😂

[@elizweatherford1]

They made it to Paris

[@akylrysgal6242]

Ukraine was not part of Soviet Russia, it was Soviet Ukraine, a full fledged republic within USSR, just like Russia was. Ukraine has been a member of the UN since 1945!

[@romansUK]

There are gas reserves in the grounds of east and north-east Ukraine. Traces have also been found in the Black Sea.

[@PurpleTapesss]

West ukraine was also the first and the biggest suplier of gas in ussr

[@andree2000]

Poland conquest Kiev Duchy in 1018 and it not was first time. Generally Ukrainian lands was part of Poland or Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth for over 700 years. Even name Ukraine is coming from Polish language. Of course they start identity as a nation from 19th century and as a independent state they exist from 1991 only. Right now they have moment of own history which identify them in new way.

[@RomanKushnir]

4:12 The Cossacks never supported the Moscow tsar. On the contrary, as a registered army, they often went to war in Moscow. And on the picture is no cossak by some kind of moskovian "oprychnyk" 4:34 The Pereyaslav agreement was one of many military alliances concluded by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. She was not special. It is known only because it has been promoted by Russian for centuries. After Khmelnytsky, there were more than 70 years of Cossack wars with Muscovy. 7:23 show on the map Crimea as a part of Ukraine, or if this map reflects the objective situation at the moment, and not modern borders, then show Kuban - which at that short time joined the UPR 9:57 Clarification for better understanding: Crimea was not a gift. Crimea and the Crimean people who lived there had close historical relations with mainland Ukraine and were globally part of the economic system of southern Ukraine. 14:11 russia not only sponsored war in 2014 by money but invaded Donbas with its troops 17:16 Most of the historical connections that russia imagine are fictional. Most russians are descendants not of Slavs (like Ukrainians) but of Finno-Ugric groups. By successfully colonizing nations and imposing its ideology on them, Russia still remains an non-modern empire. In our time, this must end by its collapse. PS: It is not very correct to mark Kyiv with three tents, a thousand years ago it was one of the 5 largest cities in Europe with stone churches. For example Sophia of Kyiv, which has survived to this day.

[@algo8082]

So, you are saying that Crimeans who are predominantly Russians by ethnicity and totally russian-speakers have had closer ties with Ukraine than with Russia? That's a funny statement:) And your statement about the origin of Russians and Ukraineans absolutely contradicts with science. As for the origin of the nationalities, according to Y-chromosome researches the are two local maximums of ancient Slavic haplogroups located in Southern Poland and Central/Southern-West Russia. Yes, there was an intermixion with "Finnish"- Uralic but mostly Baltic peoples in Russia, just like with Dinarics-Balkanians in Ukraine, but it was a two-way road, for example Erzya (Mordva) people are probably no less Slavic by origin then Ukrainians.

[@RomanKushnir]

@@algo8082 And where and when did the Russians come to Crimea? They have only been there for the last 100-150 years. After the mass genocide and deportation of the Crimean Tatars. Those russian speakers who are there are typical occupiers. Regarding the close ties: you take into consideration only the last 100 years, ignoring 1000 years of cooperation between the regions of mainland Ukraine and Crimea. Regarding genes: all people in the northern hemisphere are 98.8% genetically similar, but this does not negate the issue of culture and spiritual tradition that distinguishes Slavs and Finno-Ugric people. Russian culture showed its artificiality and inability to teach the united Finno-Ugric tribes that it is bad to rob, steal, rape and kill. Therefore, it is not a question of genes, but of cultural evolution, which the so-called russia has not undergone

[@algo8082]

@@RomanKushnir And Ukrainians forms the majority in Odessa region - former Bujak region of the Ottoman Empire. Genocide or deportation? Maybe it's just a colonization of sparsely inhabited lands like in America? And btw Crimean Tatars weren't innocent lambs through all their history.

[@RomanKushnir]

@@algo8082 Since when did Сrimeans become russian and russian-speaking?)

[@RomanKushnir]

@@algo8082 As a result of the escape of the Cossacks from the Danube from the tyranny of the Muscovite authorities. No one is "innocent lambs", but no one compares to the Muscovites in terms of the number of crimes they committed

[@metokyo4960]

Basically it’s save to say Ukraine as a self contained state exist since 1991. It is a very young country.

[@fannybirot2362]

What about the US and.NATO's intervention of the orange revolution? It's the most important point in this conflict.

[@chissstardestroyer]

Ironically, if you want a popular culture analogy for the destruction of Chernobyl and how that destroyed the USSR as a state; forever ending Russian control over Ukraine: look to "Star Trek VI: the Undiscovered Country"- it is really something of a perfect analogy set in space: Gorbechev is Chancelor Gorkon, Praxis is Chernobyl; it fits to a T; and was filmed at the same time-period as those events, specifically the end of the Cold War in both cases.

[@이주영-h5j9n]

Nooooo, not at all! It was not reason

[@chissstardestroyer]

@@이주영-h5j9n Actually, it is based *precisely* on those events, regarding the movie.

[@TheRealBillBob]

@@chissstardestroyer 🙄🙄

[@chissstardestroyer]

@@TheRealBillBob What do you mean by *that*, pray tell?

[@philipsims337]

I wish I didn't get this.

[@ІлляЖовтопуп]

You forgot to mention the Ukrainian People's Republic of 1917 and its partition between Poles and communists in 1922, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army that fought for Ukraine's independence from the nazis and communists from 1942 to 1949

[@1val096]

You said bullshit. Your Ukranian insurgent army are responsible for the death of 100k poles also known as the wolyn massacre. The founder of the UIA was Stepan Bandera who worked with the nazis. Yes he was sent in a concentration camp but he lived in very good conditions and even survived it . You will find statues dedicated to him in western ukraine and 0 in eastern (Donbass),

[@indieanna4764]

@@1val096 Ukraine had two choices Nazis or Sovietss????? Not a good position to be in.

[@emmamargaret9297]

As an American deprived of all European history, this video gave me more questions than answers. I need you to use accurate terms. Germany wasn’t Germany in WW1, I know that at least

[@JaneSoole]

A very fine analysis, especially for those of us far away, and whose knowledge of Ukraine's history so very sketchy when Russia invaded. Thanks to information like yours, we are beginning to catch up. I am in awe of the bravery of the Ukrainians and it actually illuminates for me why my own father, his two brothers and two brothers in law, signed up for the RAF immediately in 1939. Three were killed within 3 months of each other and one was taken prisoner (for 4 years)...It is why I never stop saying to the wibbly wobbly West, never forget the sacrifice that tens of thousands if not millions made for us, each one of us, to deafeat Hitler. Do NOT LET THEM DOWN today. Salutations to them all. Jane Soole, Dorset, England.

[@ralphduff298]

My grandmother agrees with you too. Hey, get back in the kitchen.

[@clared1996]

A sentence explaining the deportation of the Tartars of Crimea in WW2 & the date descendants were allowed to return from exile (1990's) was the omission i noticed (English). Of course a population whose parents & gparents came since ww2 are going to tend to sympathise with Russia but the Crimean Tartars genocided by Stalin can't vote.

[@НиколайЮжаков-м7ф]

Сталин спас крымских татар депортировав их. Не исключено ,что все они были бы убиты разъяренным населением после освобождения Крыма. Особенно вернувшийся с войны мужчинами. 99% мужчин крымских татар работали на нацистов. В том числе помогали и самостоятельно организовывали геноцид народов, проживающих в Крыму.

[@miroslavdusin4325]

@@НиколайЮжаков-м7ф Do you know that USSR was the first who wanted to cooperate (and cooperated) with Germany and even started WW2 together. So do not be a hypocrite.

[@mishaknopkin2199]

Crimean Tatars voted on 2014 Referendum mostly for return to Russia. Hi from USA.

[@Silver_Prussian]

Uhhh Genocided Ohhh come it was deportation sure its bad but they werent killed were they ?

[@Jozef-g6m]

​@@miroslavdusin4325 Prvý spojenec nacistického Nemecka bolo fašistické Poľsko. Vojnovú zmluvu proti ZSSR podpísal Pilsudski a Hitler už v roku 1934, postupne bol celý kolektívny západ spojencom nacistického Nemecka, potvrdil to kolektívny západ v Mníchove 1938, schválili Hitlerov plán. ,,Main Kampf " a vyzbrojili nacistické Nemecko ČSR zbraňami a darovali ČSR zbrojovky nacistickemu Nemecku . Dohoda o neutočení podpísaná Molotovom & Ribentrop bola posledná so všetkých ktoré Nemeco uzavrelo. Takže tak pokrytec.

[@Michaelvasquez944]

THE MODERN SO CALLED “RUSSIA” HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RUS', THE MEDIEVAL UKRAINIAN STATE. _Something important to know, for all who are interested in history and/or support Ukraine:_ _Rus' ought not to be confused with modern “Russia”, which derives its name from the Rus' but historically is a completely different state, which almost all its existence was at war with the Rus'._ _Just like the Holy Roman Empire was actually Germany, “Russia” is actually Muscovy, despite their best attempts to convince everybody otherwise._ _Its name “Russia" received only in the 18th century, when Peter I simply changed Muscovy’s name into the “All Russian Empire” (Russia originates from Rosia, name used by the Greek Orthodox Clergy in regards to Rus')_ _Under the reign of Cathrine II Muscovites where even punished for continuing to identify as Muscovites, and were forced to call themselves Russian._ _Lands that Russia (Muscovy) claims were part of the original Rus', but actually weren't, are Novgorod, Suzdal, and Ryazan, since in historical texts of XI-XII centuries they are mentioned as separate entities from Rus'. They can be considered parts of extended Rus', although their culture was distinct from main Rus'._ _In 1493, Muscovite duke Ivan III appointed himself to be the Great Ruler of All Rus'. No other kings acknowledged that. From that point on Muscovy started to make false claims on Rus' ownership._ _“Russia” is an offshoot of Ukraine and not the other way round, despite what Soviet and Russian (Muscovite) historians have been trying to say for years. A Slavicised Finnic, then later, Mongolized offshoot. Kyiv was a developed cultured capital when Moscow was just another swamp village._ _Germany used to call itself the Holy Roman Empire, that didn’t mean they became the Romans, and all of a sudden had a right to claim whole of Italy and its history, but yet, that’s exactly what Russia (Muscovy) did in regards to Rus'-Ukraine, which is a horrible injustice!_

[@sergeydudukin4214]

Moral of the story: when your country is half west half east, territories were presented to you by "bloody Russians" and you happily accepted them, do not start the argument with Russia or behave like clowns. You risk to lose the entire country completely and return to your historical borders: Kiev and couple of regions around it. Romania, Poland would not mind to restore status quo either. They also would not be happy with Stefan Bandera and Schukhevitch who are responsible for Volhynia and East Galizia massacre and are national heroes in neo-Nazi Ukraine.

[@YeviG]

A well done video with little bias, but definitely some important parts are left out.

[@yesyoucan2-minuteinspirati741]

You might also enjoy this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXqZZaScrsSkipI

[@1m2rich]

Like the religious struggle in the region. Russian Orthodox vrs. Catholic Orthodox. Muslims and Jews, etc. They all want in the fight.

[@asbiz2000]

❤🇺🇦🙏prayers for all Ukrainians

[@benjamind7639]

Now I finally understand. Heck if I was Russia I’d probably try to take control too before my enemies do.

[@warsil3735]

Ukraine was there far before kieve , before Moscow

[@kenzaske2278]

You missed or should I say under-stressed several events of the last forty years. Like the Russian navel bases in Crimea and the water supply issues that occured when Ukraine turned off the fresh water supply to them after Russia violated the treaty they signed a few years earlier.

[@mishaknopkin2199]

Who cares? Crimea is Russia since 1783. Hi from USA

[@viktorias63]

@@mishaknopkin2199 Who cares? so why aren't you eager to return Alaska to Russia then?

[@mishaknopkin2199]

@@viktorias63 Banderovka, what are you going to do with Russian Crimea if somehow (in your wet dreams) you get it? Force Russian people to talk mova? Kill all "traitors" i.e. 98% of Crimea population who voted on Referendum in 2014 to go back to Russia after a short historical nonsense of 1991-2014 when Crimea turned out to be in Ukraine. Our America keeps Russian heritage of Alaska after the sale of "Russian America", but your Banderstan wants Crimea for nothing cancelling all Russian history and culture. 😂😂😂😂

[@WangAiHua]

@@mishaknopkin2199 And before that? and after 1954?

[@ptownRandy1]

@@mishaknopkin2199 And, Kalingrad was German for centuries. Stop trying to defend Russian barbaric invaders. Hi from the USA.

[@thomasmoriarty7881]

For those who ask: “Why does Ukraine matter? “ This is why Ukraine matters. It is the second largest country by area in Europe by area and has a population of over 40 million - more than Poland. Ukraine ranks: 1st in Europe in proven recoverable reserves of uranium ores; 2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in terms of titanium ore reserves; 2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of the world's reserves); 2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons); 2nd place in Europe in terms of mercury ore reserves; 3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters) 4th in the world by the total value of natural resources; 7th place in the world in coal reserves (33.9 billion tons) Ukraine is an important agricultural country: 1st in Europe in terms of arable land area; 3rd place in the world by the area of black soil (25% of world's volume); 1st place in the world in exports of sunflower and sunflower oil; 2nd place in the world in barley production and 4th place in barley exports; 3rd largest producer and 4th largest exporter of corn in the world; 4th largest producer of potatoes in the world; 5th largest rye producer in the world; 5th place in the world in bee production (75,000 tons); 8th place in the world in wheat exports; 9th place in the world in the production of chicken eggs; 16th place in the world in cheese exports. Ukraine can meet the food needs of 600 million people. Ukraine is an important industrialised country: 1st in Europe in ammonia production; Europe's 2nd’s and the world’s 4th largest natural gas pipeline system; 3rd largest in Europe and 8th largest in the world in terms of installed capacity of nuclear power plants; 3rd place in Europe and 11th in the world in terms of rail network length (21,700 km); 3rd place in the world (after the U.S. and France) in production of locators and locating equipment; 3rd largest iron exporter in the world 4th largest exporter of turbines for nuclear power plants in the world; 4th world's largest manufacturer of rocket launchers; 4th place in the world in clay exports 4th place in the world in titanium exports 8th place in the world in exports of ores and concentrates; 9th place in the world in exports of defence industry products; 10th largest steel producer in the world (32.4 million tons). Ukraine matters. That is why its independence is important to the rest of the world.

[@markk4162]

Plus

[@cubax599]

Good info. But sadly, UKR was not even independent before the war. Independence is a prostitute.

[@thomasmoriarty7881]

@Kotomine Berndrewd he's not a Nazi,,,it's Putin’s propaganda.

[@kings2147]

All these resources yet Ukraine is "democratic " poorest country in Europe. Something is terrible wrong with the political management of Ukraine.

[@Daniellasanche]

@@kings2147 corrupt as can be. It isn't strong enough to be its own country. Always been under Hungarian, polish, or Russian rule for ALL of history until 1991. Its not capable of being its own country, just corrupt and thats why everyone's hands are in its pockets including its own leaders.

[@TomGodson95]

Ukraine existed way before Russia

[@anneslot7013]

Hahhahah yea sure

[@UAVTVideoTeam-qi3pj]

Didn’t Palestine exist before Israel? And didn’t Taiwan exist before China?

[@mbayatab4326]

0:10 Soviet Union never collapsed, it disintegrated and 15 new independent states were formed based on the Constitutionally provided right of Soviet socialist republics to exit USSR. 0:16 Ukraine was never part of Soviet Russia. Within the USSR, Soviet Ukraine was always a separate republic and a sovereign state and one of the founding members of the UN in 1945. Soviet Russia was also a separate republic and a sovereign state within the USSR with the same rights and obligations as Ukraine and all other Soviet socialist republics. Soviet Russia unlike Soviet Ukraine or Soviet Belarus was never part of the UN.

[@igorsergeev6716]

Read about 1991 Soviet Union Referendum. In March 71% of Ukrainians voted to stay in the USSR, and despite that in August political leadership declared independence. The same happened in most former USSR republics: local leaders wanted unlimited power while people wanted to stay united in one big country.

[@kotyzamarek]

Read where? In russian fairytales “history” textbook? It is all bullshit and fake history and propaganda! I’m from Czechia and almost every russian I know told me similar BS about CZ. How we wanted to stay in USSR, how people of Czechia miss the USSR and only currupt politics says otherwise… Well, we find it more than offensive because the TRUTH is! Except really small group of lunetics and politics paid by cremlin Czech people really really HATE russia and always did for all your empire of pure evil did to us. We are really glad USSR and russian influence in our country is over and this is the reason why Czech people help Ukraine so much. And I’m not speaking about our goverment which help a lot as well. I’m talking about projects where ordinary people donates like Dárek pro Putina where ordinary people raised hundreds and hundreds milions of CZ koruna. The same Clovek v Tisni to which I personaly send more than 50 000 CZK (more than 2000 EUR) and many others iniciatives. So Igor, stop spreading lies and fake russian “history”. There is no country that was enjoying the be part of USSR beside of russia and there is not a country that want to be under influence of the terrorist state (maybe except the Balarus) right now and only allies russian curuntly has are some shitholes like the russia itself like an Iran, North Korea, Kuba, Belarus, Nikaragua…

[@klarachiamarsi5935]

@@kotyzamarek "Read where?". Go to a library and find March 1991 newspapers (Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, UK....) about the result of the USSR Referendum.

[@rajlowkie6616]

Putin loaded the DONBAS with separatists and got himself and his global supporters trapped in a QUAGMIRE .

[@lanagukina3338]

Russian Empire stole the name, Russian Empire came out from Moscovia. Poland and Lithuania also could call themselves Russia then, since they had Rus territories at some point.

[@БелаяГвардия-о4ю]

Не было никакой Московии, хватит псевдонаучный бред нести 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@lanagukina3338]

@@БелаяГвардия-о4ю commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moscovia,_1596.jpg

[@sayler7960]

Lena Gurkina why are u so funny fools xd

[@sayler7960]

Only Ukranians can steal history, same like u stole gas haha

[@yuriyseliuk4120]

@@БелаяГвардия-о4ю Московское Царство не существовало знаить, интересно))))

[@ddee203]

Kyiv was fighting Mongol invasion and didn't allow them to take Kyiv under Horde's control, unlike moskva which simply submitted itself and absorbed Horde's heritage, and main basics of existence. Eventually, when the political center weakened in Mongolia and the Great Golden Horde collapsed, it cotinued its existence in a form of moskva

[@adrianappleyard4005]

Very interesting.

[@arsenii9329]

Thank you for this video and especially for using correct names for the ukrainian cities!

[@TomislavPuklin-wz1bl]

K I E V A N Rus date back at least 1600 years, some say even 2000 years before Ukraine was even a fucking idea my friend.

[@arsenii9329]

@@TomislavPuklin-wz1bl so what? Now we are nation and independent country just like any other in the world.

[@TomislavPuklin-wz1bl]

@@arsenii9329 So independent in fact that there is a recorded phone call of a US secretary of state and US ambassador to Ukraine handpicking your government officials after 2014 coup.

[@robofat]

@@TomislavPuklin-wz1bl russian federation exists from 1991 so what? Ukrainian 1991 borders are recognized by russia too in 1997

[@arsenii9329]

@Harry-mp8vi Well, Ukrainian culture and language have had a rough time over the last 300 years as we were under the USSR and the Russian Empire. All major cities had to speak Russian, while the countryside was too scattered to be controlled in the same way. So, the world got the names of Ukrainian cities from the Russians. Now that we're finally independent, we are trying to change things so that other countries name our cities based on our language and not the language of the aggressor.

[@andriylyashchenko2071]

You completely 'forgot' about resistance 1918-20 and 1942-52. Very pro-russian position to avoid the 'sharp corners'

[@aAverageFan]

He also didn't cover what the Ukrainians did to Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia

[@kleokleopatra3536]

VICTORY to UKRAINE !!!

[@johncromwell2529]

Thank you

[@saulsavelis575]

Rus is Lithuanian language word like Lietuva. Rus means that in that land rivers were flowing CLAMLY=RUSENANCIAI, and Lietuva or Lithuania means the FLOODED land BY RIVERS IN EVERY SPRING

[@parrot849]

Outstanding summary of Ukrainian history, very informative. The one thing I have to take exception to is your statement about U.S./Cuba relations in 1960s being similar to the relationship between Russia and Ukraine. I have a hard time seeing a parallel between the relationship the United States held with Cuba in the mid-twentieth century and the relationship Moscow has, and always had, with Ukraine; Even the Cuban nuclear missile crisis in 1963 is very different from the atomic retaliation Putin is wildly threatening week to week currently as Ukrainian military forces continue to stomp Putin’s army invaders location within Ukrainian borders. Other than perhaps a desired tourist destination and source of fine cigars and some sugar imports, Cuba had nothing the United States envied from that Island nation. Whereas Russia looks greedily at Ukraine and it’s potential “bread basket” status. Regarding the “buffer state” argument, by 1963, the U.S. was resigned resigned to accept Cuba as a communist neighbor. It was only the insertion of Soviet atomic rockets pointed at the United States that was an unacceptable fact and was the point of the crisis at the time. On the hand, Moscow has never accepted an fully independent Ukraine as a non-buffer nation and is currently demonstrating their disapproval of this status currently by their gross act of hegemony on-going today by Russia against Ukraine.

[@rockshox08]

I didn’t see any mention of the violence and killing that went on in Donbas for 7 years and the lack of enforcing of the Minsk agreement Also no mention of the neo nazi movement that was acknowledged by the US Congress until the war stated to brew. Very important to the current situation.

[@RichardTaylor1630]

That's because none of the nonsense you allude to as facts never happened. Contrary to the mythic excuses for Putler's illegal, genocidal invasion of Ukraine, that nation's government was not and is not controlled by "neo Nazis." Now go collect your potato for posting fake news across the web for the millionth time.

[@ukrainepress8800]

As a Ukrainian, I can say that this is a very easy presentation of history, if you were Irish, is that how you would present history about Great Britain?

[@sevamedvedev5681]

Crimea is not “complicated” it is annexed.

[@RichardTaylor1630]

Annexations at gun point do not count in international law.

[@АртемійЩербина]

You should base your studies much less on russian studies and understand that there is Ukranian point of view and russian history was rewrited dozens of time in a sake of propoganda such losing principle of historism. Kyivan Rus was fractured even before there was Mongol invasion and princes fought against each other. After destruction of Kyiv there didn`t just happen Lithuania, there was Volyn-Halichina principality or Kingdom of Rus (Danylo was crowned by Pope) which was tryin to fight againts mongols when there was Novgorod principality in the north of modern Russia, helping mongols. Cossack didn't rebell in favour of Russia, first of all there was no Russia( history of its name is quite long story, another one of lies and propoganda) cossacks fought for their religion, culture and rights . Bohdan Kmelnytskyi made an alliance(protectorate, it`s another complicated story how we should understand that treaty) with Muscovy in a fight against Commowealth wich Muscovy betrayed and made peace with Poland-Lithuania and cossacks continued their fight in alliance with Sweden . After death of Khmelnytskyi there was half of a century of permanent war in which different hetmans made different deals with different countries (Commonweath, Muscovy , Ottomans , Sweden) and its another propoganda cliche that with treaty signed by Khmelnytskyi it was the end of a story. So as i said in the begining u should leave begind old russian propoganda and try to really examine what happened . I thought todays invasion would help people to understand that there's Ukranian point of view

[@sonah9126]

This guy had one day to write a transcript about Ukraine and Russia for this amateur KZbin channel - do you think they would bother with cross-referencing histories? Absolutely not! This video is a disgrace!

[@sayler7960]

Bogdan Khmelnitsky in 1654, sending March articles to the tsar, he writes: "to the great tsar and the Great Prince Alexei Mikhailovich of all Great and Small Russia ...". Learn history before listening to Ukrainian propaganda

[@Dirtmiy]

There is no Russian and Ukrainian version of history. Textbooks and encyclopedias are written by all scientists together - Russian, Ukrainian, European. It is impossible to study the history of a country in isolation from the whole world. This is a general historical principle. When many countries participate in this, it is possible to avoid subjectivity of the interpretation of events. All historians adhere to this policy. But, unfortunately, the Ukrainian authorities do not like it - they really like to draw in textbooks.

[@UKESRfertilizer]

This guy makes great video!! Kudos. Dialogue so succinct and pertinent and narrates the video perfectly.

[@andriylyashchenko2071]

full of 'missing' facts and mistakes. he is pro-russian freak

[@andriylyashchenko2071]

The guy made totally wrong video with huge number of omitted facts, inconvenient for kremlin. Read comments from educated people. below the video.

[@Moveton]

On March 10, 1945, the capital of Japan was subjected to a carpet bombing conducted by the US Air Force. Several hundred tons of bombs and napalm were dropped on Tokyo, killing at least 80,000 residents, most of whom were civilians.

[@asrieldreemurrthe1st]

Fun fact: almost nobody cared about Ukraine until it was attacked.

[@wadopotato33]

But the same could be said about Russia. They have long been viewed as a dying empire. The truth is that any real look into their demographics shows that they are a dying empire. All you have to know is that Russia's population before WW2 and present is about the same. However it is projected to go down. In the same time frame the US has gone from 120 million people to 330 million people.

[@UAVTVideoTeam-qi3pj]

@@wadopotato33considering their current president they might lose population soon too

[@JerzyZajaczkowski]

It was part of Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

[@MrStevemur]

I believe Eastern Ukraine is more ethnically Russian than Western Ukraine, which is important context for the current war. Western news reports often referred to “Russian-backed separatists in the East.” In effect there was a civil war going on in Ukraine ever since the Euromaidan revolution overthrew Yanukovych in 2014. The government in Ukraine referred to the fighting as an anti-terrorism operation; a ceasefire of sorts was negotiated through the Minsk Accords, with the involvement of France and Germany. But those accords were never implemented, which is another root of the present conflict.

[@magdaty1815]

I think they murder people in Ukraine which are not followers of Stepan Bandera, just as they were murdering people who weren't Stepan Bandera followers 80 years ago. Volhynia R.I.P. Bieszczady R.I.P. Lubelskie R.I.P.

[@MrStevemur]

​@@magdaty1815a friend of mine has made the point that rich people always think they're going to use fascists to achieve their goals, but wind up losing control of them. When the US-backed regime in Kyiv took power in 2014 they wanted to put down the separatists in the east but Ukraine didn't have a strong army. Angela Merkel has now said in interviews that Ukraine's goal was to build up its military ASAP, so it stands to reason they couldn't be picky about recruits. And there were these fascist groups like Azov Battalion and C14 and Right Sector already hankering to start fighting again. Sure they signed them up.

[@magdaty1815]

@@MrStevemur It's like saying the only doctor in the village is the one that murdered your mother so you take your sick daughter to him just because he's the only one. Maybe you would do that, I wouldn't. Besides it's lack of knowledge. The truth is CIA took in naziUkrainians just as it tok in naziGermans. Took in and nurtured the nazi-movements in each country they possibly could. The truth about CIA is common knowledge I don't know why people like you or governments of countries in UE pretend otherwise. The politicians and authorities in Ukraine promote Bandera-cult and cult of murdering because as they say it is "effective" as they say. Zelensky is part of that cult and he follow Bandera footsteps, bandera gave away ukraine to naziGermans, Zelensky gave away Ukraine to naziCIA.

[@MrStevemur]

@@magdaty1815I don't know if it was the CIA specifically, but yes the fascist groups were supported. I think of it as similar to Afghanistan in the 1980's. The US wants to send weapons to groups that will give Russia as large a headache as possible, and those turn out to be extremist crazies. Nationalist extremists or religious ones doesn't matter so much to the US. It has blowback later on because those groups don't just conveniently disappear when the war is over. But by then the people responsible for the policy have retired anyway.

[@magdaty1815]

@@MrStevemur source, yt video titled: US Journo TRUTH BOMBS Ukraine crisis

[@Silver_Prussian]

Crimea isnt occupied its transferred back its its original owner, just cuase the government in kiev and the governments of the west dont like that doenst mean have any right to say that it doesnt belong to russia.

[@yuriyseliuk4120]

it belong to Tatars, whom russian tried to replace and kill

[@lydiazafra3476]

Ukraine is such a beautiful country but no longer as Putin dissipated it most building are flattened by constant bombardment and shelling by Putin but don’t worry President Zelenskyy and Ukrainian people almost the whole world wt you and people all over will volunteer to rebuild beautiful Ukraine again it will bloom like a rose , God bless Ukraine , thank you for this channel .. blessings from USA

[@steadfastroland77vlog6]

The true answer is becouse of human greedness of power

[@nicholasche5032]

1. Kievan Rus is a historiographical term that began to be used only from the 19th century. The inhabitants of Russia of the 10th century themselves never called Kievan Rus, in the annals and documents of that time the country was referred to as the "Rous land". 2. Yes, these three princes ruled Russia from Kyiv. And what kind of prince was the ancestor of the Rurik dynasty? Novgorodsky). What about the rest of the princes? The role of Kyiv in the history of Russia ended already in the 12th century. 3. Hryvnia is the standard for the mass of silver that was paid. The ruble is already a minted coin. In Ukraine, they now pay with coins, and not with silver according to the standard, right? Khokhols thoughtlessly stole the name. 4. Yes, no one denies that Kyiv was then the capital of Russia, and therefore, baptism came from there. 5. And? Kyiv was the capital of a centralized Russian state much smaller than Moscow. 6. Russians - a derivative ethnonym denoting belonging to Russia. "Russian people" were mentioned in the annals from the time of the rule of Kyiv, the Cossacks of the Hetmanate called themselves "Russian people" in the 17th century. And where were the Ukrainians before the 19th century? The word "Ukrainian" is not found even in Shevchenko's work). 7. Yuri Dolgoruky was a Rostov-Suzdal prince.

[@NM-qc2dh]

Thank you for that. Very interesting indeed.

[@60tbird1]

That's a lie, no doubt that you are quoting a Russian source.

[@youngsrl11bl59]

Rus' - Ukraine

[@BurkeBurnett]

This is an incomplete and thus inaccurate representation of history because it leaves out the Zaporozhian Sich, which was an autonomous polity and proto-state of Cossacks that existed between the 16th to 18th centuries, and the fully independent Cossack Hetmanate state founded by Khmelnytsky and that existed between 1648 and 1764 until the Russian tsar Catherine the Great destroyed it. By omitting this historically significant period of Ukraine's history, this video is a disservice to anyone seeking a full understanding of Ukraine's political history.

[@tomashize]

It's completely understandable why people that had been oppressed and threated by Stalin and the USSR would side with Hitler. Finland being a good example.

[@TheKeyPez]

Wasn't there 2 main rivals in the modern Ukrainian/Belarusian/Russian territories during the Viking age period? The Duchy/kingdom of Novgorod (Modern St. Petersburg) and the Duchy/Kingdom of Kiev? Both were founded by Swedish vikings when some decided to settle in these Slavic lands. You had ofcourse other smaller duchies/kingdoms like Moscow and others, but they were insignificant compared to these other 2 duchies/kingdoms at that time? Why wasn't that mentioned in this video and covered? From what I learn and understood, the novgorod/kiev rivalty conflict could be compared with the northern Egyptian kingdom vs the southern Egyptian kingdom in ancient times. Sometimes the other were more powerful than the other, sometimes they were separated as 2 individual entities and sometimes unified as one grand duchy/kingdom. I might be wrong about this, if anybody has more deeper knowledge about this, then let me know!

[@imyarek]

Basically, no. The rivalry was there but it was rather soft. Novgorod was the first capital until Rurik (the first ruler of Rus) died, then the capital was moved to Kiev and that was it. After the fracturing of Rus into several duchies (100 years before the Mongol invasion) there of course was rivalry between all of them, including Kiev and Novgorod.

[@bacharkrayem6190]

There wasn't a country like this in history.

[@dmitryletov8138]

"Bread basket of USSR" term is very over exaggerated. According to widely available statistics, Ukraine's average wheat production per year was about 1/3 of the wheat production of RSFSR, the population of Ukraine was also around 1/3 of RSFSR, so Ukraine was self-sufficient but not the "Bread Basket". Some people mention that 50% of Ukrainian territory is covered with super fertile black soil, those guys should know that Russia has 5x times more black soil area than Ukraine

[@moni1383]

Except Russia doesn't farm it. It's basically a gas station with nukes and the army that is most skilled at killing and raping civilians. At least the whole world sees it now.

[@lch7732]

@@moni1383 Ukraine takes that title, it's an expert at raping and killing if you look at Wołyń.

[@rizvan_ua]

This brief history of Ukraine is very simplified and doesn’t reflect a lot of sides of country’s history. For instance, it fails to mention the Kingdom of Rus and The Cossack Hetmanate State. Moreover, the Cossack uprising did not aim to unite with Moscow. Instead, its goal was to guarantee for Cossacks' the same rights as for polish nobilities. Before reaching out to the Tsar of Moscow, the Cossacks proposed forming an economic and military alliance with the King of Sweden.

[@kristinaF54]

As the video hints and the comments highlight, Ukraine has been subject to a lot of upheavals in its history, being as it is a geographic crossroads between East and West. I think as Ukraine became more important as a food exporter to the world, it really should have been a top-priority of the Ukrainian government to pump funds (35% of its GDP) into its military and defensive capabilities to protect its national treasure which is food production (and in so doing it protects its sovereign territory and national interests). It speaks volumes to the incredible ineptitude and stupefying blindness that the Ukrainian government didn't recognise national defence as a priority until it was invaded by Putin's forces. I hope now that with the influx of imported defensive weaponry, military training (combined with the people's indomitable fighting spirit) and how these have helped turn the tide against the Russian invaders, that every future Ukrainian will see that the funding of a large well-trained and well-equipped national defensive military force is more important than ever realised, and should be in future the top-priority of every elected Ukrainian government to guard its national interests, territory and food production. It's pure madness and idiocy not to recognise that Ukraine, by its history and location, has been and always will be the subject of dreadful upheavals, because it sits at a crossroads between powerful Eastern and Western forces. Only a massive professional defensive army can guarantee stability in such a crucial region as Ukraine, the success of such rests upon its leaders not being boastful, hostile, stupid or otherwise forgetful of its precarious position as a crossroads between two ginormous powers.

[@johnbatinovic6593]

And 70 years of communism sure helped to keep them poor.

[@winnerscreed6767]

did you miss the part of the video where Ukraine was more or less (forced) Required to give up it's possible military advantages to Russia? What a flipping joke.

[@cherylsemrau7100]

Thank you. I have learned a lot. I like learning about history. Greetings from Canada.

[@Anna-xx1lv]

Learning history from around the globe…..so important! Make sure your history is correct and factual! ❤️

[@siena_miller]

You actually learned wrong lol😂 read books, here info is very mixed up and much important facts are not said ps I am from Ukraine.

[@mihaidobrin85]

This is incomplete. The author didn't mention the territories stolen by USSR from Poland, Romania, Hungary and Cehoslovakia. Territories that later were gifted to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, alongside Crimea and Dombas. That's the today's problem ok Ukraine. More than half of his population are of different ethnicity like romanians, polish, hungarians, slovaks, russians, tatar (in Crimea). The new law of education do not let the students of different ethnicity to study in their mother language and was the argument invoked by Russia to start the war. It's a shame that Romania and Poland helps in great ways Ukraine in the war efforts and as a thank you the Ukrainian government gives a law that don't let the polish and romanian ethnic's to study in their own language. Make's you wonder?!

[@mihaidobrin85]

@@Abulb99, it's history. Cernăuți, Ismail, Cetatea Albă (Maurocastro) was never Ukrainian. Crimeea was part of the Ottoman Empire until Ekaterina the great annexed it. I'm sorry if you feel offended but it's the truth. The same with L'vov which was of Poland.

[@gitarbro2175]

the words that people in these territories do not identify themselves as Ukrainians is a lie, in percentage terms there are fewer Hungarians in Ukraine than Romanians in Hungary, if we want Ukraine to introduce additional state languages ​​on the entire territory or on certain lands, then we have implement a similar policy on the territory of absolutely all states, and considering that there is now a war in Ukraine and there is no time for that, we will do it for the time being on the territory of other countries, and primarily multinational ones, I suggest starting with Russia, continuing with the same Hungary, in In Russia, all 193 nationalities should have their own state languages ​​and schools, in Hungary, for example (according to the logic of the author of this message), Romanian should also be the second state language

[@victorv4899]

@@mihaidobrin85 You have rightfully used the words “invaded”, “annexed”. All lands in the world at some point have been invaded by the aggressors and the annexed. The southern Ukraine was populated once by Greeks, Bulgars, then Slavic tribes, Cossacks, after which they’ve been taken by aggressors. The city of Lviv was founded by the Slavic prince Danilo Galitski in 13 century and then was taken by the VKL (Great Kingdom of Lithuanian and Poland), so - did it make it Polish?

[@mihaidobrin85]

@@victorv4899, my issue is with Cernăuți and the southern part of the Odessa region. Those lands, in most of the time, were under the romanian rule (Dacia, Moldova, Basarabia, Bucovina, România Mare). In the 19th century and again after the second world war, the russians / soviets stole that land from it's motherland and afterwards gave it to the RSS Ucraina. Even today the majority of the people living there are Romanians that speak romanian and study in romanian. There is also an romanian university in Cernăuți. So you tell me, goes Ucraina has the moral right to own those lands? And the same thing with other lands in the country that never were part of Ukraine, with the majority of the people being of other ethnicity, not speaking the ukrainian language and overall not feeling ukrainians. I am against the war (because of the human loss and because part of it it's sustained with public money, my and other EU citizens taxes) and I don't like what Russia / USSR have done in eastern Europe throughout the history but I can't close my eyes at the historical injustice that lead to today's geopolitical problems. The solution for me is to Ukraine to return the lands thar never were part of Ukraine, were the majority of the people are not ukrainians but other ethnicity and the ramaining territory will be the true Ukrainian state, lived by ukrainians, member of the EU and Nato.

[@user-jw5tb5hd1m]

Galicia wasn't stolen. It is Ukrainian ethnic land.

[@remysimon6819]

Thank you. Brief but well presented 🙏🇺🇸

[@eeddie25]

Poor explanation. Doesn't answer the question WHY. Romania has its roots in Roman Empire too, but they don't claim modern Italy. But Russians do claim territories of their roots. WHY is it such a dealbreaker for them?

[@krzysztofmichniewicz6247]

Russia still use Pejerasław treaty as a reason, but they forgot (as well as you "historians") about Hadziacz treaty of 1658 wich was ratified by polish parliament, and made Tree nations commonwealth, a year after that cossacks defeated muscovites at Konotop. Untill end of january uprising, cossacks were split between Russian and Polish influence. Untill end of I Polish Republic there were cossacks regiments in crown army. In both great polish uprisings in XIX there ere whole cossacks regiments in polish arms. Of course there were also on russian side, but you cannot say simply that cossacks in 1654 turned and offer themselves to russian tzar. Biggest cossacks uprising in history weren't Chmielnicki's (those of course most succesfull), it was Pugachew rebellion. Since 1919 cossacks and Ukrianians itself defended themselves against bolscheviks officialy as polish allies to death, for that, and for being a part of White's army, Stalin punished them with great starvation. Because of starvation, Ukrainians held Germans as their saviors... for that rest of survivng true cossack's were anihilated by the Russians in 50's. The same way met the Volga Germans, Tatars, eastern Poles (not only nobles), or Latvians, Estonians as "Germans". Of course Polish-cossack relationship in XVI/XVII was much more complicated structure... Poles promised somthing, didn't held promise. Cossacks brake their promises too, then were bloody rebelions, filled in cossacks blood by the Poles, then came revenge when Chmielnicki allied with Tatars. Then came tzar... agains wich cossacks fought so many times under polish banners, and quickly turned also against tzar in favor of independent state. Especially in 1670's there were two hosts rebelling against their "masters". Zaporohian host with Tatar support rebelled again, wich brought finally Turks over them and over part of Poland. And in same time Stiepan Razin with Don cossack host rebelled against tzarist government. Russians as Poles defeated rebels. So cossacks turned into first Turkey, then after it's defeat into Sweden. In 1768 cossacks rebelled again against Poles, again from Russian inspiration, again where defeated, by joined polish-russian forces. But later rebelled against Catherine... wich terified her so much that she finally break up with her young ideals. Etc. Etc... Regognition of Belarusians and Ukraninian identity is other topic... I only want to say, that both made their renessaince in XIX century in favor to mention Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Cossacks autonomy from XVI/XVII century inside Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It's say quite lot...

[@yesyoucan2-minuteinspirati741]

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[@Haijwsyz51846]

Your comment almost makes me thinking that the Ukrainian identify was actually from the Cossacks. Were Cossacks the forebears of Ukrainians? Cus the word Ukraine did not appear untill the 19th century.

[@krzysztofmichniewicz6247]

@@Haijwsyz51846 You have maps showing actual country under the name "Ukraina" made by Wilhelm Hondius in 1648 or Johann Baptiste Homan from 1720 with title "Ukrania". So this name isn't exist or be used since XIX th century. And yes, i know the cossacks were simply an outlaws from Poland, Lithuania, Ruthenia, Muscovy and Crimea but they made culture and a true nation during about 150-200 years. And cossacks were elite of the Ukrainians but yes, today's Ukrainians are descents of XVII cossacks. At the same way you could denied existance of great plain Soux nation, or other indian nations wich had their special culture, and languages whatever they raised in very short time period. So cossacks form Ukraine (mainly Zaporohians) had their own culture, spirit and even in some cases architecture. And there were (little but still) times when they were regarded like that by I st Polish republic. We cannot say that about Russians wich were and still regarded them only as their subjects.

[@Haijwsyz51846]

@@krzysztofmichniewicz6247 thank you for your reply. That would make some sense that Ukrainians are a different people. I have tried to learn about the history of Ukraine and Russia since the war started but had not found out the difference between Ukrainian and Russian. Ukrainian should embrace the heritage.

[@krzysztofmichniewicz6247]

@@Haijwsyz51846 You're welcome, and if you had more questions I serve with all my knowlege hoping explain any of them.

[@МашаРядинская]

Неправда о Голодоморе. Я живу в пограничной с Украиной Белгородской областью. У нас в 30 годы 20 века погибли даже больше людей , чем в соседних областях Украины. И тогда же Украине было выделено в совокупности больше помощи, чем всем остальным регионам СССР, вместе взятым, которые также пострадали от голода. Это не было преднамеренным актом геноцида. И на местах свои же украинские руководители более усугубляли ситуацию, чем требовалось.

[@МаксВолк-р3д]

You miss the most important detail, the first capital was Novgorod, it was here that the first semi-mythical king Rurik ruled. And only the next tsar seized (he captured it, and did not found it or somehow peacefully annexed it) Kiev, killing the local rulers.

[@чухчух-х2о]

Новгород не відносився ні до Росії ні до території України, це була окрема земля. І Московія зробила геноцид Новгорода! А про Рюрика немає жодного документа, це придуманий персонаж

[@viktorias63]

Novgorod got nothing to do with Russia until its annexation by Ivan the Terrible try harder

[@WangAiHua]

The "first capital" of what?--Of Novgorod maybe? There were no Tsars then! Kyiv is spelled Kyiv not Kiev--come on! What are you trying to say?--or make up?

[@МаксВолк-р3д]

@@WangAiHua че ты несешь? Новгород столица Новгорода? Тогда были Князья в англиском нет такого слова

[@WangAiHua]

@@МаксВолк-р3д Novgorod (the city) initially was the capital of Novgorod (the state), just as Moscow (the city) was the capital of Muscovy (the state), Kyiv (the city) was the capital of Kyivan Rus' (the state). As you say English words like "prince" was not used but was perhaps a less accurate English translation of Kniaz.

[@philipgrice1026]

It's appropriate that Cuba was raised as an example of US hegemony, since it was US insistence that resulted in Ukraine being 'invited' to join both the EU and NATO. It was the US that previously insisted that Turkey be 'invited' to Join NATO. This enabled the US to install Pershing missiles along the then southern border of the USSR that caused Khrushchev to agree to install SS20 missiles in Cuba after refusing Castro's requests for years. The USA has a penchant from its paranoia about world losing power to instigate foreign wars, regardless of the consequences for nations other than the USA. After poking a stick in the Russian eye with Ukraine it's now stirring the pot with China over, nominally the export of EVs and cheap goods, but more because China is becoming an economic powerhouse that is erasing US influence around the world. Ukraine is the least of the US worries. They seem determined to start WWIII and destroy humanity before climate change can finish off the job.