1,000 Years of Ukraine: The History Putin Erased

Описание: Putin claims Ukraine was "invented by Lenin." The archives show Ukrainian identity existed for a millennium before the USSR. Here's the history Russia's president wants you to forget.

In this video, I trace Ukrainian statehood from Kyivan Rus through the Cossack Hetmanate, the 1918 independence, and the 1991 referendum where 92% voted to leave the Soviet Union. Every claim is backed by primary sources.

Primary Sources Shown On-Screen

12th c. Laurentian Codex – “Let Kyiv be the mother of Rusʼ cities”
1654 Articles of Pereiaslav (Appendix I, Art. 1 & VI)
1840 Taras Shevchenko, Kobzar – title page & MS draft of “My Testament” (Zapovit)
1918 Fourth Universal of the Central Rada (Ukrainian People’s Republic independence act)
1918 Photo: Signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Ukraine (Bundesarchiv, Feb 9 1918)
1919–22 Lenin, The Question of Nationalities or “Autonomisation”
1932–33 Stalin telegrams on grain seizures & OGPU order № 36
1933 US Consul Walter Duranty cable: “starvation, cannibalism, and mass flight”
2014 Putin, Speech 24 Feb 2022 –
2021 Putin essay, On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians
1991 Ukrainian Referendum returns (Central Election Commission, 1 Dec 1991)

Further Reading (start here)

Serhii Plokhy, “The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine.”
Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom (2018)

Music

“The Flow of Time” – Alex Productions
“Cinematic Documentary”
“Promise” – SoulProdMusic
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