Ok, let's talk about it.
No, he was Malorossian.
"Ukrainian is NO nationality. There is real
Taras Shevchenko's passport in his museum in Kiev and in it it's clearly written: Orthodox Malorossian (aka, Malorussian). Passports of Ivan Franko and Lesia Ukrainka (Kosach) say: Rusin and Rusinka (for Lesia, who's a female). Ivan Franko wrote in hid diary:
“Someone bloodily (terribly) insulted me today, they called me Ukrainian! Although everyone knows I am RUSIN.' FYI: before the 1917 Revolution (meaning Lenin's November 1917 Bolshevik coup as a result of which the USSR was formed in 1922) only those who betrayed the Russian Orthodox faith and converted into Greek Catholicism (Uniats). The word 'ukrainian' signified not nationality, but religious association. In the Universal Call to the Cossack World Bogdan Khmelnitsky writes: “I, the hereditary Russian Shliakhtich, hereby command!..”
When did Poland conduct Ukrainization of the "borderlands"? Before 1795 or after 1918? And why would they want to do it? To piss off Russians in the 21st century? From what I read, Poland was doing the exact opposite of Ukrainization. Didn't they arrested Bandera and sentenced him to death (later commuted to a life sentence) on terrorism charges?
Polish phase of Ukranisation occurred before 1772. Then the Austrians took over..
Bandera was just a bandit, who used nationalistic ideas as a front for his atrocities.
I really don't understand your position. Do you deny that Ukrainians are a nation with its own language and culture?
Yes, I deny that. There are Novorossians, Malorossians, Galicians (Rusins) - and even this is more of a geographic, than national separation. They all have their dialects, but so do people, who live in Moscow and Rostov-on-Don...
You do understand that it was Russians who continued their push westward/southward since Muscovy was established in 1283. Here is a map of the expansion from 1390-1525.
You forgot the map with Kievan Rus and Galician Rus from before the Tara-Mongol invasion and the split of those lands...
ROFL. Ok, I understand.
You are revisionist (and delusional). Whatever makes you happy man. Let me guess, you are an Orthodox Christian and a member of United Russia
BTW, I did not include Varangian and Khazar controlled "Rus" as there were no Slavic states or cities at that time.
Those trading routes were fully controlled by Scandinavians and Khazars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars
Nothing to do with Slavic states. Vikings, Khazars controlled that area, starting in from mid 6-7th century. So it is quite a bit of stretch for Slavs to claim Kievan Rus to be their ancestral state.
Rurik, Sineus and Truvor were not Russians, Ukrainians or old Slavs
But for you it probably does not matter. Since Ukrainians don't exist, I see no reason why Kievan Rus was not established by Putin's ancestral family
PS. Rurik haplotypes:
Y-DNA haplogroup N1c1 are found in coastal Finland, among the Swedish-speaking Finn.
Sorry buddy, your Russian empire started with Muscovy, I'm afraid.
