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Rewriting History, Putin Pitches Russia as Defender of an Expanding Motherland

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2.22.22
President Vladimir Putin pitched Moscow as a defender of its historical motherland on a crusade to protect Russians and Russian speakers from “genocide” as he justified the dramatic decision to recognize the independence of pro-Russian separatsts in Eastern Ukraine late on Monday. In an hour-long emotional, and occasionally angry, address to the nation, Putin outlined his interpretation of Ukrainian history and what he sees as persecution of Russians in the Donbas, concluding that he was left with no choice but to recognize the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states. In Putin’s telling, that is a “culture and tradition” inherently Russian in nature, since he has repeatedly expressed skepticism toward the idea of a separate Ukrainian historical identity. Putin also dedicated lengthy sections of his speech to undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty — describing Kyiv’s status as the capital of an independent sovereign country as little more than a gift from Moscow. The implication being that it is Moscow’s to potentially take back. Eventually turning to the current standoff, he accused leaders in Kyiv of escalating the situation in the eastern part of Ukraine, saying they have “embarked on the path of violence, bloodshed, lawlessness, and they do not recognize any other solution to the Donbass issue, except a military one.”

The speech was the culmination of a years-long campaign by Putin to rewrite the history of the Russian-Ukrainian relationship, experts said. Prior to Monday’s address, Putin’s most substantial thinking on the Ukraine issue had been outlined in a lengthy essay — “on the historical unity of Russians and Ukranians” — published last July. Analysts saw a clear line between that essay and the content of Monday’s speech. But many fear the immediate act — recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples’ Republics — is far from the extent of Putin’s true ambitions. “This will affect not only Ukraine, but other ex-Soviet countries — starting with Belarus and Moldova and ending with Kazakhstan and the rest of Central Asia,” said political scientist Ilya Graschenkov. “Recognizing the DPR and the LPR seems to be only a small episode in the much larger issue of restoring the Soviet Union — if not to its previous borders, at least in the format of a mini-U.S.S.R.” Putin’s interpretation of Ukrainian history — a combination of cherry-picking facts, purposeful misinterpretation and conspiracy theories — has been dismissed by experts as a “dangerously distorted reading of the past.”


As I and others have previously noted, with the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991, the new countries of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and Belarus were all created as new independent nations by the signing of the Belovezha Accords.

These three new countries, and their agreed upon borders, were accepted as such by the United Nations. The new Russian Federation inherited the Security Council veto presviously held by the former Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

If Ukraine is not a viable country as Putin maintains, then neither are the Russian Federation and Belarus.
 
Sounds good and honourable to and for his people .

Bet the US wishes they had such a great leader .
 




As I and others have previously noted, with the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991, the new countries of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and Belarus were all created as new independent nations by the signing of the Belovezha Accords.

These three new countries, and their agreed upon borders, were accepted as such by the United Nations. The new Russian Federation inherited the Security Council veto presviously held by the former Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

If Ukraine is not a viable country as Putin maintains, then neither are the Russian Federation and Belarus.
I have seen in these very threads similar attempts at "selectively editing" the history of Ukraine that mirrors Putin's ludicrous effort. Hitler used the same crap to justify the taking of the Sudetenland, and then Poland, France, ..... Putin is a student of history. Just the wrong history.
 
Sounds good and honourable to and for his people .

Bet the US wishes they had such a great leader .
No, we do not wish we had a leader who declared himself dictator for life and who embezzled tens of billions of dollars from the people. Since you're always fawning over Putin and Russia why don't you move there?
 
Would someone link to what they think is the correct history? Or provide a source?
 
No, we do not wish we had a leader who declared himself dictator for life and who embezzled tens of billions of dollars from the people. Since you're always fawning over Putin and Russia why don't you move there?
So exactly following standard US practise is forbidden to Russia .

The world holds America as the Planet Terrorist Centre so I will not be going there .

It's time to lose Sleepy, so invite Uncle Vlad to share MAGA with The Donald and all live happily after .
 
So exactly following standard US practise is forbidden to Russia .

The world holds America as the Planet Terrorist Centre so I will not be going there .

It's time to lose Sleepy, so invite Uncle Vlad to share MAGA with The Donald and all live happily after .
Name one US president who stayed permanently in office or one that stole tens of billions of dollars from the people. You lie because you're dishonest and have an agenda.
 
No, we do not wish we had a leader who declared himself dictator for life and who embezzled tens of billions of dollars from the people. Since you're always fawning over Putin and Russia why don't you move there?
Aw, come on, Trump would have been easy, close the boarder, make everybody work, and then when the Great Depression comes, the winners can choke up on the bat in their desperate and deluded attempt to always stay ahead of their neighbor.
 
See, once you do that with your money, you got to stay ahead, because you know what they will do to you.
 
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