Putin ‘s statements on Ukrainian statehood – absurdity and demagoguery

In his address on Monday night, explaining the decision to recognize the separatist formations in eastern Ukraine, Putin once again claimed that Ukraine was an artificial formation during the Soviet era. The revelations of the Russian president have shocked historians.

“It simply came to our notice then.

It hurts to insult a nation so far that it is claimed that it is neither entitled nor able to exist on the basis of false claims.

Ukrainians have been a nation with their own national self-confidence since the 19th century, when all modern nations were formed. “Russians or Germans as a modern nation, not the leading nation of the empire or the country,” said Jacobson.

Putin has previously stated in his rhetoric that the Ukrainians are not a separate nation, but only a part of the Russian people.

CONTEXT:

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Monday that he had decided to sign a decree on the “People’s Republic” of Donetsk and Luhansk recognition of independence from Ukraine. On Monday night, Putin delivered a nearly hour – long address to the Russian people, in which set out the reasons for its decision.

Putin claimed that Ukraine has never had its own tradition of statehood, so Kiev is only copying foreign models that are separated from the traditions of Ukraine. To a large extent in this speech, he repeated the rhetoric already set out last summer when Putin published a very long and comprehensive article. “On the Historical Unity of Russia and Ukraine”, which, from its point of view, outlined the history of all centuries of Russian – Ukrainian relations. Putin claimed at the time that Ukrainians and Russians were “one nation.”

As former Estonian President Thomas Hendrik Ilves acknowledged at the time, this Putin rhetoric is extremely dangerous because he denies the existence of the Ukrainian nation and uses similar rhetoric as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in 1938 over the Sudetenland to achieve the partition of Czechoslovakia.

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