Zorkin during the meeting said that he brought this copy of the map“take this opportunity to”. “It turned out that the Constitutional Court found a copy of a 17th-century map drawn up under Louis XIV,” he told Putin. “There is no Ukraine there.”
The head of the Kremlin agreed with the words of the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.
“We know that these lands were simply part of the Commonwealth, and then asked to be part of the Moscow kingdom, that’s all, and ended up as part of the Moscow kingdom. And only then, after the October Revolution, all sorts of quasi-state formations began to form, and the Soviet government created Soviet Ukraine. This is well known to everyone. Before that, there was no Ukraine in the history of mankind,” he added.
Zorkin and Putin once again lied.
“Focus” noticed that the snapshot of this map (its author – Guillaume Sanson) published on the website of the digital library of the National Library of France and its partners Gallica.
It shows that the lands that are part of modern Ukraine are marked on the map as Ukraine, the land of the Cossacks (Ukraine pays des cosaques), then it was part of the Commonwealth, the Crimea now occupied by Russia is designated there as a separate state – the Crimean Khanate.
It is believed that the first written mention of the word “Ukraine” is dated 1187: it is about a fragment of the Kiev Chronicle, which describes the death of Prince Vladimir Glebovich, it says that Pereyaslavtsy cried about him and “Oukraina has a lot of poston about him.” However, historian Daniil Stetsenko in an article for “Historical Truth” wrote that the source for quoting all these chronicles are lists that were compiled and written much later.
“It is impossible to make a textual comparison of later lists with protographs, because the original chronicles simply have not survived to this day. this is not worth talking about as a fait accompli,” he said.
Putin In recent years, Putin often speaks publicly on historical topics. In 2021, his article in Ukrainian and Russian “On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians” was published on the website of the President of Russia. In it, he repeated the message that he had voiced many times before: Russians and Ukrainians, in his opinion, are one people. Putin said that Ukraine was being drawn into a “dangerous geopolitical game” aimed at “turning Ukraine into a barrier between Europe and Russia” and “anti-Russia.” In the same year, he stated that Ukraine was created by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin.
Russian and Ukrainian historians have repeatedly refuted Putin’s theses on historical topics. Analytical platform VoxUkraine devoted an entire article to analyzing why the assertion that Lenin invented Ukraine is a fake.
Putin repeated this fake once again after the start of a full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine in 2022. Talking to children in September last year, he said that “Ukraine never had its own statehood before the formation of the Soviet Union, there was no such state.”
Ukraine was founded at least one and a half thousand years ago, it is the only legitimate heir of Kievan Rus, the heir of the Cossack state, the successor of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, and also has a rich tradition of lawmaking, writing, diplomacy. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky reminded about this in his address on the occasion of Statehood Day on July 28, 2022.
2023-05-23 20:17:11
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