Did you know that Russia belongs to Sweden historically speaking? Brit Reaction

[@rogerhe73]

The RUS are the name of Norsemen predominantly coming from sweden. It means something like " The men who rows" pointning to the longships that they come in.

[@MagnusFoss]

Sweden in Finnish translates to Ruotsi!!

[@ingegerdandersson6963]

I thought it was that they came from Roslagen (north of Stockholm) that gave the name.

[@Ikkeligeglad]

@@ingegerdandersson6963 No, it is the men who row, the reason they are called that is that it is difficult to sail a Viking ship on the Dnipro, so the Vikings mostly used oars and that is what the people who lived there at the time called them from the beginning and they continued with that

[@herrbonk3635]

@@Ikkeligeglad Are you sure the term Roslagen doesn't have something to do with the same etymology? That's where they mostly came from after all, at least as far as we know.

[@dos3722]

Routsi " men who row" in Finnish where settlers traders in rus and beyond . The countries did not have any exact borders then . The one that ruled the water ways were in power ..

[@skepsis4314]

And the vikings was in America around year 1000 so we could claim America to... ;-)

[@johan.ohgren]

They knew what was coming and left in a hurry..

[@erikstenviken2652]

Its was fun that Joe Biden had his office in Wilmington when he was president elect. That used to be part of New Sweden. So basically both USA and Russia and Ukraine and Belarus and Norway and Denmark och Finland should be swedish :) oh Estonia and Latvia too. And why not Poland, its was ruled by Vladislav Vasa… yes… make the world great again… make it swedish :)

[@squidcaps4308]

@@erikstenviken2652 Sure... if we also agree that Finnic Tribes have the right to claim any land they previously inhabited. That means Kola peninsula as a whole, and if you take Finland like a brush and just paint halfway to Ural, all of that land was inhabited by Finnic Tribes. There are still pockets near ural that speak completely comprehensible Finnish, it is really, really strange how it is SO similar despite being cut off from Finland for centuries. It is not at all like Liv people or Estonians whose language you can't understand as a Finn but then some pockets of Finnish speakers in the middle or Russia..

[@nmaster4125]

@@johan.ohgrenlol😂

[@jeanettebrannstrom2320]

Good ranting 👍🤗

[@scyphe]

The Varangians were Viking conquerors, traders and settlers, mostly from present-day Sweden. The Varangians settled in the territories of present-day Belarus, Russia and Ukraine from the 8th and 9th centuries, and established the state of *Kievan Rus'* as well as the principalities of Polotsk and Turov. They also formed the Byzantine Varangian Guard... etc. etc. etc. They were called the Rus and thus the name of the huge chunk of territory from the Black Sea to modern Russia that Rurik and his descendants ruled was called the Kievan Rus' (since the capital city was Kiev). Long before that Kiev was a trading hub in the area while Moscow was just a forest. Try telling that to most Russians...

[@Denzao-D]

Wiki much.

[@notundermywatch3163]

Most Russians are very aware of that

[@NiclasHorn]

yea but we Swede´s had Russian land long AFTER that... you know Carl XII the teenage warrior king..

[@angrydragonslayer]

@@NiclasHorn my grandpa was born in a clan formed in byzantium, living in karelia he was one of 3 survivors from the clan following the communist attack

[@yastyman]

There has never been a state called Kievan Rus; it is the name of a historical period.

[@vansting]

Nestor was a monk and chronicler who lived in the late 11th and early 12th centuries in the Kievan Empire. He is considered the author of the famous "Nestor Chronicle" ("Povest vremennykh let", or Tale of Bygone Times), which is one of the most important sources of the early history of the East Slavs and the Kievan Empire. Nestor's life • He was born about the year 1056 and died about the year 1114. • Nestor lived as a monk in the Cave Monastery in Kiev (Kievo-Petherska Lavra), which was one of the most important spiritual and cultural centers of the Kievan Empire. Nestor Chronicle The chronicle was written around the year 1113 and describes events from the history of the East Slavic peoples, from mythical times until the beginning of the 12th century. It covers, among other things: 1. The role of the Scandinavians (the Varangians) in the founding of the Kievan Empire. 2. Trade routes such as "from the Varangians to the Greeks". 3. Relations between Slavs, Vikings and Byzantines. 4. The Christianization of the Kingdom of Kiev under Grand Duke Vladimir the Great (year 988). Significance of the chronicle Although the chronicle is an invaluable historical source

[@deaodaggi]

"According to the prevalent theory, the name Rus', like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden (*rootsi), is derived from an Old Norse term for 'men who row' (rods-) because rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen (Rus-law) or Roden.[23][24] The name Rus' would then have the same origin as the Finnish and Estonian names for Sweden: Ruotsi and Rootsi.[24][25]"

[@cgnovice2969]

While “lag” means law in Swedish it has nothing to do with the word law in this context. Lag also means “team” and in this context the crew that would row a ship.

[@europopmartov8268]

Great point! 👍🏼​@@cgnovice2969

[@znail4675]

@@cgnovice2969 Lag can also mean an area where a certain law applies, like Danelaw.

[@cgnovice2969]

@ No lag doesn’t refer to an area where a law applies. It simply means ”law”. However in this case I most likely does not. Roslagen is a relatively late word, (15th century) and refers to a team of rowers. The ”ros” comes from the old word ”roden” which in turn likely comes from the old Norse word ”roðer” (rowing).

[@Kossagubben]

Swedish peeps founded Kiev

[@Juznik1389]

yeah right, in alternate universe

[@samuelwikstrom7758]

@@Juznik1389 in this universe actually, it was called Gårdarike

[@MelinaJamiee]

@@Juznik1389 Yes they did, google is free my friend.

[@Juznik1389]

@@MelinaJamiee You are rewriting history. Vikings came there yes. But there were Slavic people there before them. Hence, why vikings came there. No people. No vikings. Vikings didn't always rape and pillage everywhere. They sometimes traded too

[@Juznik1389]

@@samuelwikstrom7758 How does a naming logically concur that it was Swedish? You Swedes are beyond mental repair. You love to indulge in your own bullshit. Maybe that's why your country has become such a shit hole full of arabs. Because of stroking your own ego, thinking that you are the most kind people to exist. As they say "don't get high on your own supply"

[@adamsodergren7647]

The biggest difference between Norweigan and Danish Vikings is the fact that while they went west, into Europe while Swedish vikings went east, into what is today Russia and the countries around it. And as far as I understand it, Kievan Rus is people who started to congregate around the rivers because Vikings came there and made trade possible. Oh, Also, The City of St Petersburg is built on an old Swedish fort called Nylands Fort.

[@lucone2937]

The Finnish Lutheran immigrants moved to Ingria when it was a part of Sweden since the Treaty of Stolbova in 1617. The city of St. Petersburg was founded in 1703 during the Great Northern War (1700-1721), but Ingrian Finns stayed at their home villages in a region around the city. Russian Czars allowed them lived there even if the rulers changed. But the 1930s and 1940s Stalin started his purges with mass deportions and executions against Ingrian Finns just like many other national minorities in the Soviet Union.

[@znail4675]

Even more importantly, Viking era was more like the end rather then the start as there were traders in boats traveling from the Sweden area down those rivers as early as the Bronze age!

[@rullvardi]

To be fair, Swedes ( and Geats?) went both ways, west and east. There are a bunch of evidence for this, especially in terms of runestones.

[@jeanettebrannstrom2320]

Well Sweden has a lot of territory to bring back then 😂, a part of russia, Ukraine Finland, Norway, Germany and Denmark, but with Denmark we have a record of wars so im not sure who belongs to who then 🤔😂 Well we would probably have some part of the UK to😅 Oh I forgot Vinland in America, the Baltics and Island 😂😂😂 So crazy way of thinking 🙈 I love our Nordic neighbours and u want them to be who they are,❤🤗🇸🇪

[@marcusfridh8489]

And Denmark could reclaim Scania, Hallandia and Blekinge

[@NoGloryToRats]

Us Danes wants Blekinge and Skåne back then,heh after my knowledge is it actually the Danish Vikings who was the greatest throughout history,we leaded the longest and most ships to Vinland/America, Iceland, Greenland,The middle east,the mediterranean etc. We owned the most of Norway and Sweden aswell back then heh,but to be honest it would be silly to claim old land back,as Putin think hes allowed to do, without its even is historical correct,heh,in general war and fights about land should be in the past,all nowadays wars and fights should be stopped at any cost. We need as all humans be better than that and work together if our planet shall survive and thrive,the nature, animals and environment are already suffering from our dirty and greedy behaviour. All the best to all ! Greetings from Sjælland 🧙‍♂️🇩🇰🌲🧚‍♂️✌🏻✨🍄

[@agffans5725]

What part of present time Denmark were historically ever under the rule of Sweden ?, it's actually the other way around. Though the Kalmar Union was agreed upon at Kalmar in Sweden, it was designed by Queen Margaret of Denmark and it's capital was Copenhagen, from where she ruled both Denmark and Sweden from 1389 until her death in 1412.

@@NoGloryToRats Danes were the majority of the vikings that settled in Britain and France, and the ones that raided and attacked Paris several times. However, the ones who discovered America, Greenland, Iceland, owned Faroe islands, Orkney, Shetland, and some northwestern islands of Scotland, founded

[@jeanettebrannstrom2320]

@@agffans5725 it depends how you look at it Skåne was a part of Denmark and so on, my comment was ironic and was a joke about how insane it is to claim territory based on historical grounds

[@Paramart]

Swedish Vikings often used the rivers in Russia to sail to the Black sea and Mediterranean, establishing settlements and forts along the way.

[@maddie1446-c6w]

There whas now Moskva. They can take Dna so they see 😅😅

[@md2perpe]

And they went down to the place they called Miklagård, by others more known as Constantinople and nowadays as Istanbul.

[@MikaelMurstam]

5:50 not sure what you mean. Swedes definitely had Vikings.

[@JMPERager]

I think our idea of vikings and what the viking refers to in English are two different thing. Or, only west-coast Swedes, Götar (for example), were vikings, but the east coast Swedes were not. But, I think it's just a difference in definition between what we Swedes see as vikings and what viking means in English.

[@mrbrand4720]

You know that before stpetersburg that was built in 1712 their was a town called Nyen between 1617-1702 so almost 100 years before peter the great even come and built stpetersburg .

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

It's a bit more complicated, yes Swedish vikings were known as rus, and they and their ancestors formed the Kievan Rus "empire", they were also known as Vargarians and were hired as guards in Bysantine. Some claim that the word Rus stems from an area north of Stockholm (Roslagen) and that it means Rowing people, but it's hard to know since there are few sources. Rus can also in a way be why Sweden in Finish is "Ruotsi". But the thing is that countries didn't exist back then, it's a fairly modern concept.

[@cgnovice2969]

There Varagnian guard was in large made up by the Rus. There is a written description in the Carolingian Annals of St-Bertin, by Louis the Pious after he received Varangian envoys from Theophilus where he is requesting safe passage for them (the Rus) through Louis realm on their way home. Here he describes them as “people from the (what they would then call today geographical Sweden). Furthermore the Finish word for roarsmen and the word Roslagen most likely originated from the same word, “Roden”.

[@Islandfarmr]

The mentioned voting supposedly did take place, however, it was organised by Russia in territory occupied by Russia, so whether the results are the actual results and whether people gave their true opinion in the vote is impossible to know.

[@daste1263]

And those who fled had no say. If you ethnically cleanse an area after taking it by force, and have a vote under supervision of armed soldiers, it's going to take alot of balls to go down to the voting booth and throw a ballot to tell the armed man watching you to fuck off. Not to mention you probably won't be going back home that night.

[@thedryparn1279]

The Rus',[a] also known as Russes, were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, who settled and ruled along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD. Rus' is generally considered to be a borrowing from Finnic "Ruotsi" ("Sweden") - From Wikipedia

[@ProgMannen]

But they did set up trading stations long before the viking age (793 AD). They knew how to build boats before "vendeltid" and the migration period. The vikings just upgraded and perfected already known method.

[@thedryparn1279]

@@ProgMannen The 8th century starts at year 700 so it indeed started before the vikings.

[@veronicajensen7690]

the Rus Vikings funded Kievan Rus that said Russia never belonged to Sweden , there was no Sweden back then , and Sweden didn't populate Russia, but there are quite a high level of Scandinavian dna in some areas in Russia and Kiev if I remember correctly 15% (in a few areas around former Viking settlements where they tested) Swedes in the Viking age were called Sveir/Svear, and Goths/Geats , however those in Russia were called Rus it's believed to come from the Finno-ugric word for Swede "Routsi"

[@clausfrom1420]

Then explain the war in Poltava

[@rBaggy]

@@clausfrom1420 ..... By Odin. If you know about Poltava.. You should also know what year that was... The Swedish Rus were in the year ~700 or something. There is like 1000 years inbetween these events.

[@yungvertiigo2788]

The reason why they don’t agree with the guy who is recording is because they’re scared of being prosecuted, they have passed laws in Russia where people who talks negatively about the conflict can be jailed and their relatives be prosecuted too

[@helmaschine1885]

Probably, still interesting to witness how people think and reason. If they were truly against the ukraine war they could always say "I dont know much about history, but war is destructive" or something

[@Canyouhandleth1s]

The first Swedish princess Ingegerd Olofsdotter from Sigtuna in Sweden married Yaroslav the wise and later became known in Russia as Saint Avnna of novgorod.

[@mrbrand4720]

20:18 Yes they voted , but the ppl that did not want to vote was taken from their home's at gun point . So we can say that it was a bit forced on them to vote like now you vote yes or else feeling about it .

[@Geekhobby]

Do you have a source on that. That it was under gunpoint? Did not the states Donetsk/Donbas have an election that showed they wanted to be a part of Russia? They also speak Russian there. It´s easy to say that an election is rigged or under gunpoint. But is that a real fact? The reality is often more complicated than you think. This says a lot about the world: kzbin.info52HIOtECfKY

[@magnusarsland6887]

You think they voted at gunpoint after ukraine has been fighting them since 2014? The people there hate ukraine more than russians do...

[@st3pwise]

Not to be like that, but US is not much better.

[@mrbrand4720]

@@st3pwise LOL if you compare US election with THAT election hmmm ok 😂😂😂

[@88marome]

Pretty hilarious that there russians who still believe that that voting was legit when the Ukrainians are still fighting 3 years later!!!

[@niklasosterberg455]

The namn RUS describes People originating from Roslagen, (around Stockholm) - we still use the term Roslagen

[@DiggNitty]

Some places in Russia and Ukraine still bear swedish names until today. There’s even a village in Ukraine were the people of it speak ancient Swedish.

[@eliasmarud2791]

Swede here. There are two theories about the Rus. The first and mostly accepted theory is that Rurik was from Roslagen. The second and less known theory is that he was from northern Germany.

[@KristianEkstrom-u3y]

Yes. The Rus is of Swedish origin

[@karlbro7287]

then they got basically 🍇and mixed up and hence 🔩

[@Upe-f9c]

To mess things up a bit. 1) Rurik founded the Kiev state. 2) A region in the east of Sweden is called "Roslagen", in Finland Sweden is called Ruotsi and Rurik is described in the Nestor Chronicle as coming from a people called "rus" (who was Svear/eastern "swedes" - remember there where no actual nordic contries at that time). Ros(lagen) - Ruotsi - Rurik - rus - Russia!

[@arioamin]

Sweden as it exists today didn't exist but Svithoid (Svíþjóð) was a large region/land that spans much of current Svealand, which had kings for several of the sub-regions as-well as some sources also claim that Svíþjóð also used to have a 'king of kings', who was voted by the different 'Tinget' in Svíþjóð to rule over the regional kings.

[@erikstenviken2652]

The area where saint petersburg are located was swedish territory as long as until 1702. Thats not that long ago.

[@karlbro7287]

and Putin was born there, so he is properly a subject of the Swedish King. He's a usurper in Russia but Russia should not exist, it should all be Sweden. Better start learning Swedish and give back our land Ruskies. Those that don't like it have to move east of the Ural mountains.

[@IwillEndureToTheEnd]

​@@karlbro7287Russia has Mach 11 nukes. What nukes do you have? Oh, ZERO nukes. Go and hug Greta Thunberg.

[@spacemaker8760]

We can have the grounds of Saint Petersburg back, The rest of Russia is not needed. I dont want it.

[@johancarlberg8632]

Reference to later events where Sweden was somewhat larger. The Battle of Poltava (in Ukraine) in 1709 decided the Great Nordic War. During the battle, Charles XII's Swedish field army was defeated by the Russians led by Tsar Peter the Great (Peter I). After the battle, Charles XII left the defeated army and set off for Turkey (Ottoman Empire).

[@akeeriksson84]

Rurik from Roslagen in todays Uppland was asked by the slavic tribes around Kyiv to help them found a nation. So he went there with his brother in 830 AD and founded Kyivan Rus. It was also called Rossia because of the the influx of people from Roslagen ( ROS law) Sweden. Sweden is therefore called Ruotsi in Finnish and Rootsi in Estonian. When the Danish Vikings went to England they called it Danelagen in English Danelaw.

[@PeterLan1]

I'm Swedish and took a DNA test recently because I was a bit curious. It turned out that I was 50% Swedish and 25% Ukrainian... The rest was a little Norway and US... That part with Ukraine was a surprise, maybe that's why I started to dislike Putin. It's probably in the genes...

[@shar3066]

I have mixed heritage and Russia is currently occupying land where i have ancestry from. Hope to see my 2nd country free and also belarus. 🤞

[@historyouuu3495]

I'm 50% Finn, 40% Swede and 10% Scottish. From Finland....

[@europopmartov8268]

Perhaps you should try loving Putin, he is your neighbor. ☝️

[@magnusarsland6887]

I bet it was propaganda.

[@JMPERager]

@europopmartov8268 As soon as he stops being a warmonger.

[@novoiperkele]

Its Kievan rus, so ruzzia belongs to Ukraine also.

[@herrbonk3635]

And vice versa. Exactly what Putin says, when he goes historical.

[@Ulf-qg1vd]

​​@@herrbonk3635However ukrainan language is only 50% similar. Ukrainian is closer to polish or Czech language.

[@roberthbeer7154]

Ukraine was founded for the first time for 3 years 1918-1921 and then again in 1991....before that it belonged to the mongols, muskovites , tatars and kossacks in different turns

[@Ulf-qg1vd]

@roberthbeer7154 ..and they had communism/anarchism those three years....

[@МихаилСавельев-ю6ь]

Kievan Rus is what later became Russia, after they moved. Ukraine is what got left here, or rather got occupied by some criminal groups and then formed their criminal structure, known as “Ukraine”

[@Luggruff]

I think the Swedes should try a Russia as the argument for Russia to get the f out of Ukraine. Putin like talking history when it comes to Ukraine, so maybe mr. Tucker should go have an interview with a Swedish politician that can tell us all about this, for Putin to hear. That would make not only my day, but my year.

[@herrbonk3635]

USA should go first.

[@karlbro7287]

Putin is a hypocrite. "waaah waaah you use long distance missiles on me, it's not fair!" while he uses long distance missiles on those he makes war with. Pathetic they have leader being that much of a hypocrite.

[@magnusarsland6887]

Ukraine has been fighting the areas russia is holding for over a decade. So who needs a history lesson? Anyway Putins history lesson with tucker is pretty much we have no reason except stupid reasons to fight. Ukraine started killing people though. Russia threatened war since 2014 if they did not stop..

[@0men916]

BTW Sweden (including Finland) and Russia has fought 32 wars against each other

[@bengtolsson5436]

Yes, it just depends on how far back you have to count. Kyiv was formed, among other things, by vikings from the rose team in Sweden who were called Ruser. And that was before Russia even existed. But that applies to Ukraine, not Russia. So Sweden was ahead of Russia in Ukraine.

[@johan.ohgren]

Vikings founded the first Tsardome of Russia as well.

[@herrbonk3635]

And ahead of USA in U...

[@magnusarsland6887]

Vikings made kiev and formed russia. Austria and poland had their empires and eventualy convinced people in kiev they are special and should call themself somthering else than russian. After WW1 I suppose lenin helped with his whole russian revolution. But people in kiev were so fascinated by him that eventualy they declared him their dear leader.... A few million deaths later and the germans having some dear leader with other ideas coming to kill with the help of bandera some more milliions who refused to work with them or were impure and not real ukrainians in a way that even the dear leader in germany kinda disliked because he wanted more soldiers for the front instead of more dead impure scum... Then it suffered under soviets who killed everyone who worked with the funny mustache man. Eventualy the big centralized goverment of soviet tumbled under corruption and stupid decisions. And the local corrupt people took charge of their own destiny expanded the so called historical borders and said now everything would be better. The americans got involved and had some ngos and stuff inflame old hatreds and supported some dude who just could not wait a month or 2 for electtions to seize power causing russians to "protect" people in crimea. And when people in eastern ukraine saw people running around killing people and not getting punished.... Well they also started to feel more russian and kiev started bombing them for it.Eventualy causing russia to get involved. Long complicated history with lots of death and hate to go around and that is the recent history.

[@JanLars-Jos]

Nestor was a Swedish viking king who was living in Kiew for long time

[@sebswede9005]

Sweden: "Russia once belonged to Sweden. We are simply taking it back". Putin: 👀

[@mikaelaskalberg3640]

Sweden also "owned" Norway before we "gave" the country back. In the Swedish-Norwegian union, the two countries had separate state administrations but a common king and foreign policy. During the 19th century, Norwegian opposition to the union grew, but it was not until 1905 that it was dissolved and Norway became independent.

[@spacemaker8760]

On 7 January 1814, about to be overrun by Swedish, Russian, and German troops under the command of the elected crown prince of Sweden, King Frederick VI of Denmark agreed to cede Norway to the king of Sweden in order to avoid an occupation of Jutland. This means the Swedish, Russian and German troops threatened to take Copenhagen. So in the end the Danish King forced Norway to be ruled under the Swedish flag. And knowing that it took that long for Denmark to loose their grip on Greenland i think that the Swedes owning Norway woud have given freedom to Norway way sooner then the Danes woud have. Acually i belive Denmark woud have kept Norway until today.

[@WOTHAN66666]

So Swedish Vikings founded Russia... Something they did not even THANK US FOR.

[@boogiesparr]

The vikings saw countries like pokemons, got to catch em all

[@birgittae9046]

Our Swedish kings Gustav II Adolf (the Lion of the North) and Karl VII, also took land east of the Baltic sea during 1600-1700.

[@Dragontrumpetare]

Actually even Putin take about Rurik during his Tucker Carlsson interview. So he seems to say done if the story of Rurik as founder. He started to build Moscow according to Putin.

[@albundy1956]

And the vikings started Dublin on Irland too.

[@Ken-sn7oc]

The vikings helped founded Kiewanrus, and with the trade route therefrom to Särkland (Iraq) the "arabs there said they were from Rus, wich became Rusland for the vikings. Another form of authority was formed in Novogorod and they decided to form Moscovia with Moscow as capital. Kiewanrus became Ukraine and Moscovia, well! Whats basically the origin of todays Russia but they also count RF as a part of russia.

[@_Wolfsbane_]

The Rus were, according to some sources. from the region called Roslagen north of Stockholm. They founded Kievan-Rus, which strictly speaking isn't Russia, but Russia originated out of Kievan-Rus.

[@merjakotisaari9046]

In old Russian annals and chronicles, Rurik is described as a Varangian Rus', or overseas. In the 12th-century Chronicle of Nestor, the Varangians are associated with the Swedes or other northern peoples, such as the Angles and Goths. Rurik's arrival in Russia sometime after 862 would fit in with the Viking raids, and he could have been a prominent Scandinavian warlord.[1]

[@RauleeCM]

The first known people to set foot on Russian territory were called the Cimmerians. They ruled between 1000 and 700 BCE and were followed by the Scythians in 700 BCE. The Scythian nomads established a military state and defeated the Persians, but were nonetheless conquered by the Sarmatians in 3 BCE.

Rus is from Roslagen in Sweden

[@birgittae9046]

In general I have learnt that Swedish Vikings mostly went east, but Danish and Norwegian Vikings went west.

[@emilholmstrom5966]

There were no people who called themselves vikings. Rather people would go viking.

[@pablojacob769]

The Vikings end up in St. Petersburg. When they moved to East.

[@AstralWalkerOne]

You have the Gohts in crimea under Theodoric.. his was family ties goes to Sweden Östergötland.. The lombards who emigrated into northern Italy in te (568-636).. they are the 200.000 Winnili who became The Langobards "Lombards in Italy" who actually originated from Scania "Sweden" which started in the 1st century ad due to overpopulation.. where they first took rugen and roamed Northern Baltikum mixing in with German tribes later moved in to Italy and sacked their nobility when Venice played out its opponent The Byzantine arcade.

[@olasjoberg2111]

I've read a couple of theorys... 1. (it is said that ..) Rurik created the settlement of Novgorod (named Holmgård in our storys from that time, during the Viking era) 2. the finnish-tribes called them "Rus" they who rowed the boats towards the east. 3. It's said they (Rurik and company) came from west, the now a days Sweden, Denmark even some say from the baltic countries. 4 There is a connection later on between sweden and novgorod, the king "Olof Skötkonung" and "Anna the holy" as Anna was related to Olof. Baptised as " Ingegerd Olofsdotter. Even to the Kievan Rus thanks to Anna. but who knows what is true... But there were abvoius trade connections and travels, I'm guessing it went both ways also.

[@Bloink]

Russia - the days of Sweden's condom neglect coming to haunt everybody for a thousand years.

[@Aurinkohelmi]

This was new thing for me as a Finn as I thought Sweden and Russia fought over us since forever 😊😅 But 100 year old countries isn't odd thing. Our country turns 107 next week, and there is a lot of younger countries as well.

[@Yolo_kids]

As a swed I learned this in school but they never said anything about Russia being a part of Sweden but I know thta Scandinavia and finland was Sweden that’s the only thing I know

[@marianneklarberg]

The "vote" the russian referred to was held by Russians in the occupied areas Donetsk and I fotgot the name of the other. That was about 2 years ago? But that was not really free and there was a low % participancy.

[@dirgniflesuoh7950]

Swedes, "Svear och götar, och hälsingar", "Sviar & Goetar" went in both directions. Example, in Östergötland, on the Eastern side of Sweden, the side on the Baltic, there are like eight Viking runestones, four are about going east, four are about going west, like England, "Ilati". People further north were more likely to go east, since it was closer. People on the west coast were more likely to go in that direction, to the southwest, the North Sea, the British Isles and France and wherever. They all traded and raided around the Baltic, and along the rivers, or went south or east to take service and make silver and gold.

[@Azrael-xl3jl]

The Varangians founded Russia. There are still towns and areas in Russia with Swedish names. Check Gammelsvenskby for example.

[@0men916]

true. The governor of Norrtälje north of stockholm is the one Putins should talk to in the Caucasus and on the Black Sea. In the 850s AD, the East Slavic state of Kiev was founded, and in Novgorod (Holmgård) Swedish Vikings under Rurik formed another center of power (Gårdarike). After Kiev also fell under the Rurik dynasty, the kingdom grew, and at the end of the 9th century it was Christianized by missionaries from Byzantium (Östrom)

[@ChrisseLaszlo]

It is written in in "The primary chronicle" by a monk called Nestor. You should also check out Nyenskans, founded 1611 in the area then called Ingria (belonging to the swedes), this is where St Petersburg is now located. That fact is really funny when Putin mentions to what borders he want to go back to.

[@Hinhålesjälv]

its like this Sweden had an army outpost where St Petersburg now is, Peter the great took it and still today when your in St Petersburg you can visit a replica of thet outpost

[@Kugghjul]

Also Ingegerd jugoslav was the daughter of the first swedish christian king Olof skötskunugn. Ingegerd got marrid to Jaroslav a king in Kiev. She got four kids one of them named Izjaslav Gerturd, fuanded the russian tzar family.

[@NiclasHorn]

1. Well i have to add, yes its kind of right, i am from a part of Sweden that is called "Roslagen" still called the same sense times of the Vikings, those people did set of to Russia before it was Russia. Ros = Rus = Russ....there is history to be read and learned in school in Sweden, at least before it was. Vikings did kind of started western part of Russia, within Moscow and St Petersburg area. But during that time we where Vikings, not Swedes yet. Sweden was not a nation yet at that time, 800-900 AD. we where a country of many small "kingdom´s" Viking kings. or Jarls that´s called. 2. much later, Sweden did conquer and invade Russia, many 100s years later after the Vikings did settle in Russ. Sweden as a nation is the only country until today that ever controlled Moscow after a invasion of Russia for a shorter period. Dude, We have been in war with Russia 14 times, 7 of the times we won. (some people say it was 11 wars and we won 7, but it´s all depending how far back you go in Swedish and Russian history.) Russia have land today that once belonged to Sweden that is Russian today. But if they give it back, Finland, all Baltic nations and so on need to convert to Swedish flag, aaand i not so sure they want us ruling over them again 😂 They are doing better than us in Sweden today so why trade down? 🤣

[@xoth2306]

I also understand the random pepole that he is asking the questions, caus if they say the wrong thing and the Russian police get a hold on the information of what they said they can get up to 25 years in prison

[@historybuilds]

Swedish ”Vikings” norsemen is the same as the others, they went both west and East. But what we know is that Sweden was more of the religiouse center of scandinavia, more religouse sures and items have been found in sweden then the rest of scandinavia (from the viking age)

[@butterfliesandmoths]

Yes you guessed right with the vikings. Apparently Sweden was involved in the founding of new states, that would later become Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Im a little curious about this topic, but havent found that much info about it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Sweden_relations

[@roberthbeer7154]

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[@ReginnKunnr]

Nestor realy means the oldest/the most experienced/(the wisest). In this case though it's a reference to "Nestor the Chronicler" or "Nestor the Hagiographer" who wrote the so called "Primary Chronicle", the chronicle of the Kievan Rus basically.

[@maxthelast]

All of scandinavia did have vikings. But Sweden at its largest was the Swedish Empire, holding Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, parts of Norway, part of Russia(including even St. Petersburg), parts of the Netherlands and parts of Germany. The only reason that they lost was because, Russia, Poland, Denmark-Norway(at the time a union) and I also believe Prussia(German predecessor). All of these teamed up on Sweden and eventually they lost the war, losing everything but the modern Swedish territories.

[@finnishculturalchannel]

Some relating videos: "Old maps of Northern Europe Finnish tribes 300-1300 A.D", "A short history of Ingria/Ingermanland", "Kuhmo UNESCO City of Literature Vepsäläiset", "Venäjä = Ruotsi // 'Russia' means Sweden", "Finno-Ugric languages comparison (basic words)", "Costas Melas History of the Uralic Languages", "Costas Melas History of the Germanic Languages" and "Costas Melas History of the Slavic Languages".

[@GorchaxGaming]

they held referendums in part of these territories (with a majority being russian aligned citizens) that overwhelmingly wanted to belong to russia instead of ukraine. I think it was above 95% in favour in the Luhansk region.

[@Thunnus916]

Humanity... We own this, you own that. Just be f-ing greatful to have seen anything. As far as we know we have just a very, very short period of time living here. What happens after that, no one (of us) knows. It seems to be so f-ing hard to be kind and respectful… I feel like I’m done here, honestly. I saw things, I was amazed, I loved, (still do), I hated, I cried, I laughed, I missed and I appreciated… And eventually I’ll die thankfull. Good night, to all of you♥️

[@davidisachandy]

Rörik was his name from Sweden That went from outside vagnhärad in sodermanland there is a stone raised there

[@RauleeCM]

Jaroslav the Wise (1019-1054), grandson of St. Vladimir, can be regarded as a founding father of the first Russian state. He created the first code of law, a family cult, and issued his own coinage.

[@RenderMuffin]

Watching Russians being interviewed is like watching Jaywalking on Jay Leno show... it's so silly I don't know if I should be scared or laugh my ass off. A whole nation brainwashed... quite an accomplishment.

[@andreassjoberg3145]

Sweden had the Göthi, Svea, and the Roos tribes, and also a ton of Danish tribes in the southern part. Svearna subdued Göthi, and a few of the Danish tribes, and also defeated the Roos who originated on Åland. The roos migrated eastward and eventually founded the Kievan Rus, the Muscovny Rus and a few other lands by simply taking over the slavic tribes, ruling them, and ruling WELL. Meanwhile Sweden consolidated into a modern national state, and spent half a millenium fighting wars with Denmark. Today the achipelago from Stockholm through Åland to Finland is still referred to as "Roslagen" which means the land where the ros made the law, = ruled. The Roos really only ruled for about a century before they were absorbed into the slavic culture, but their legacy is the foundation of the states that eventually became Russia. It is quite possible that the Göthi also were part of the same bigger Goth culture that spawned the fall of Rome... We nordics have ALWAYS been meddlesome!

[@JanLars-Jos]

During this time Swedeen was a country but many local viking kings similar as in Denmark and Norway

[@FXGreggan.]

Many Swedish who went a viking did go west, but predominantly they had most trading routes south and east and it kinda naturally unfolded to us using them routes for going viking (going viking was also going trading, not necessarely going head bashing :) Also those trading routes were established well before the viking age...

[@uh_thats_all_folks]

What if Rome wants its empire back?

[@OliwerDanielsson-q8w]

What if the germanic tribes wants its empire back?

[@karlbro7287]

@@OliwerDanielsson-q8w fight fight fight?

[@arthena2130]

Yes, Sweden did settle Russia, but were later conquered and those conquer were also conquered, and those conquerors were overthrown, and they are the current Russia. But there is definitely Swedish blood in Russians, yes. This did happen during early viking times if I remember correctly, it is the same as the first discovers of America are also vikings, and they did have a settlement there, but never really colonized it. Also, this was the viking age, Sweden did not exist yet and there was no unified country yet, so what he founded indeed does not really belong to Sweden.

[@FehuDagazWunjo]

Nestor was a monk in Kiev in the 12th century. He claimed to have lived 1056-1113. His chronicle is about the area around Kiev from the Big Flood (you know, the one in the Bible) up until the year 1110.

[@bubach85]

That guy about how many “tried” to attack… someone should let him know how many times Sweden have actually defeated them in wars. It’s a lot. 🤣

[@RobertNikolaGrujic-pk6li]

Rurik was from the oboties tribe from current day Pommorania (meaning coastal area) in slavic language.

[@SteamboatW]

Some Swedes founded the darn thing, but we can't claim it today. I mean, the brits went to India...

[@spokraket4236]

The word rus is probably related to the Finnish word routsi which means Swede. It is probably related to the region of east Sweden around Stockholm which is called roslagen or in English ros-law. So ros or rus well pretty similar.

[@spokraket4236]

Addendum roslagen can be interpreted differently, ro means row like rowing a boat. Lagen is both law and it can mean teams that can be called to a task. So roslagen basicly means people who serve the king by rowing boats, hm there is another name for that… viking

[@andersliwenborg3355]

The viking culture and mentality and language was exactly the same - Harald hårdråde went with Swedish Vikings to Miklagård ( Constantinopel ) and later became king of Norway 🇳🇴 later killed in the battle of Hasting in England

[@ecktoplasmism]

We modern norsemen should claim both the U.S and Russia as our historical territory

[@kingvii7250]

I think we first came to todays Ukraine and established Kiev and one of us (from Rus (Roslagen outside Stockholm) went up north, to todays russia (whatever that is)

[@rBaggy]

If anyone wants to learn more about the "Swedish Claims" on "Russia" There is 3 Kingdoms you should learn about: Novogorod (Holmgården) Ruthenia (Königsgården) Muscovia (What later won the wars against the other 2) And a Empire: is the Title you have when ruling more then 1 Kingdom. Sweden have Historical claims to 2 out of Russian Empires like ~25 Kingdoms. The Russian Empire will always have Claims on their lesser titles to stay an Empire. We in the west want these Kingdoms to remain Kingdoms, and not get absorbed into the Empire again. I mean i guess most of you guys seen "Asterix and Obelix" movies, about the little village fighting against the Roman Empire. Ukraine is Asterix and Obelix and Russia is Rome, to draw paralels. The difference from other Historical Empires is that they have nukes. When Empires crumble, chaos will follow. Look at Europe after the Collapse of Roman Empire. The Germanic Tribes Migrated South and changed History forever. Look at the historical locations of Lombards, Burgundys, Angles, Saxons etc. I do pray for the Fall of the Russian Empire. But i am also very worried about what follows. I am glad we wont be alive for the most part of that chaos.

[@FredrikUggla1]

According to some sources there was too much civil conflict in the region and several tribes asked the Rus people to establish order, safety and stability. In that case the Swedes were elected as the legal government of the region =)

[@Johnolof76]

The Rus', also known as Russes, were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, who settled and ruled along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD.

[@crimscrimz5977]

A 1000 years ago relax now.....We have runestones about eastern travels from the viking age. The Rurik narrative is very blurry and controversial.

[@ReginnKunnr]

The word viking can be a bit misleading. Some scholars has speculated that the word started out as a vierb and became over time a noun. So if we accept that to be the case then yes the Rus were viking, and in this case, predominantly swedish vikings. The best source I can come up with is Timothy Snyder. He's a history professor at Yale University, and has written extensively on the history of eastern europe primarily Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. He's been studyin this subject since the 80's, so he's a bit of an expert. There's a lecture somewhere on KZbin where he gives a comprehensive account on the russian/ukrainian history from the very beginning with the Kievan Rus and up to the current conflict. As I can recall his account pretty much says the same: The Kievan Rus was founded by swedish vikings, and the Kievan empire came to include at least the heartland of Russia including what later would come to be known as Moscow.

[@friswing]

Nestor was a monk in Kiev, that lived 1056-1113, and wrote the Chronicles of Kiev, and that the country around there was established by the Viking Rurik, so he lived only a hundred years after a swedish princess married a king in Kiev, which was decended from Vikings. Notice that Sweden and Ukraine are the only two countries with Blue&Yellow flags !? So, in the early Middle Ages, the forfathers of the Russians were actually living further to the East. Vikings were traiders mainly in the western parts (today Ukraine and Belarus). Their capital 'Moskov' is actually not a russian word, but Finnish-Ugrian, that is the people that today only live in Finland, Estonia and Hungary. The slaves pushed these earlier people away, pretty late in history. Today people are very mixed up everywhere.

[@alvdansen7172]

Rus are vikings, it's what swedish vikings got called! It's likeley that the finnish people named Sweden/swedes for Ruotsi becuase of the Rus-vikings, Ruotsi could be translated to row as in rowing a boat and it relates to the long ships that the vikings had. Swedish vikings went east so countries like Russia, Ukraine, Belarus etc. and even further to arabs nations. I think arabs might of called swedish vikings for Rus instead of vikings. It's believed that the Rus vikings gave Russia and Belarus their names.

[@perthyren601]

Only thing I know that Nestor means honored Teacher

[@NorthonBruce]

Kinda funny to hear, considering that UK still clings to northern part of Ireland.

[@janholst]

Archaeological excavations at Ladoga in Russia have confirmed that the building style and remains correspond to those found in Jutland, Denmark in the mid-8th century......

[@herkales]

the rus were swedish vikings, the first ever documented viking raid were from the Swedes

[@23smguld]

Yes, there is a truth in that. Russia and Sweden's bilateral relations go back to the 9th century, when a group of Swedish Vikings, the Varangians, are believed to have created new states such as Kievrus, which later developed into Russia.

[@S.V.M-MCMXCIX]

Its true and i think many sweeds know this that are into history

[@merjakotisaari9046]

Russia was a small area around Moscow, St. Petersburg was the territory of the Vepsians, Putin is a Vepsian, all of that, including Finland, belonged to Sweden.

[@alfw5757]

The Swedish Empire or the Age of Greatness (Swedish: stormaktstiden)[1] was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden became a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region. During this period it also held territories on the North Sea and some overseas colonies, including New Sweden. The beginning of the period is usually taken as the reign of Gustavus Adolphus, who ascended the throne in 1611, and its end as the loss of territories in 1721 following the Great Northern War.[1]

[@Österrikiskkonstnär]

Swedes were everywhere in the Viking age, plenty or runestones tell of travels to east and west.