"It happened so that although it was Russia that was born out of Ukraine, and not the other way around, due to systematic distortion of historical facts to serve ideological needs (just consider the concept of ‘great Russia’) the entire world (alas, including Ukrainians themselves) grew to believe in this distorted picture of history and culture, believe in the ‘big brother.’ But Volodymyr the Great, Baptist of Rus’, Volodymyr Monomakh, and many other ‘founders of the Russian nation and culture’ were of Ukrainian, not Russian origin!"
World expert on Russian literature Hans Boland and translator of the Russian greats has finally put history right. After centuries of bending the truth, a Dutch scholar sets the record straight. It was Kievan Rus and it was Volodymyr the Great who brought Christianity into Ukraine. Russia stole the name and the culture and mixed it with Asian language to create an autocratic society that is unlike Ukrainian in almost every way. Now, is trying to change European perceptions. He has snubbed Putin and embraced Ukraine.
Thank you, Hans. No one believed us.
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