How Russian empire started and will end!

Day 5,769, 15:10 • Published in Portugal Portugal • by Granikus

Russian empire started with Ukraine, and it will end without Ukraine. This is not just an opinion, it’s a historical fact. Ukrainians had a vital role in it.

Moskovia renamed itself to Russian Empire, and Tsar started calling himself Emperor only in 1721. Before that, they were colony and vassal of other states (Rus, Golden Horde, Crimean Khanate). This renaming happened exactly after they took over Rus (Ukraine). Even the name “Russia” and the idea of “nations with common roots” was inspired by Theophan Prokopovich, Rector of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Yes, ironically, a Ukrainian gave the grounds to the current Russian historical propaganda. And he made the Moskovian church fully dependent on the Tsar. Some say he wanted to save Kyiv from destruction this way, but who knows... Russians are still saying that “Kyiv is the mother of the Russian cities”, which is historically true, it is 650 yrs older than Moskow. This is the trick that turned their 850 y history (Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal was founded 1157) into “over 1000 yrs history” (Rus started in Kyiv in 9th century), they had this weird idea that Rus just “moved” from Kyiv to Moscow, which is absurd.

The first University of Russia (1755) was founded by the alumni of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (which of, course was closed by them later, as an act of gratitude for educating them).

Since they closed Ukrainian schools and Universities, and banned Ukrainian language, many talented Ukrainians came to study in Saints-Petersburg, switched to Russian language, and became “Russian” scientists, writers, poets, generals, and so on. Gogol, Chekhov, Mayakovski, Bulgakov, Dostoyevsky, Strugatsky, Chukovsky, Nekrasov, Akhmatova and many others are known as Russian writers and poets, but they had Ukrainian roots (sadly, some of them became Ukraine-phobic).

Ukrainians took part in all Russian expansion wars. In WW2, up to 33% of Soviet troops were Ukrainians (numbers differ per research), Hundreds of Ukrainians also served as generals and commanders, every 5th Hero of Soviet Union was Ukrainian. USSR space program was led by Ukrainians (Glushko, Korolyov). A great part of their intercontinental ballistic rockets were developed in Dnipro, Ukraine. But Putin now arrogantly says “Russians could do it alone”. They couldn’t.

In 1991, they lost it all. Fertile lands, resources, industrial potential, and most importantly, people. In 1997, Zbigniew Brzezinski in his “The Grand Chessboard” wrote that the Russian empire wouldn’t be able to last for long without Ukraine. And Russians themselves believe it. That is why the war started. Without Rus (Ukraine) under their control, it is kind of awkward even to be called Russia, let alone claim the heritage of Kyiv as theirs. So, Ukrainians helped to build their empire, and Ukrainians will ruin it too. In 1995, Dzhokhar Dudayev, the president of Chechnya, sai😛 “Russia will clash with Ukraine in a bloody war. And Russia will fall when the sun of Ukrainian freedom rises”.