The Rus'
I have written several articles on the history of the region known as the Ukraine region, explaining how it is an artificial state.
Dr Bob’s email to me, about why the “Ukraine” doesn’t really exist was a powerful and succinct evocation of the idea. It had emotional punch. Reading it, I immediately sought his permission to publish it. It deserves to be read by as many people as possible.
There are lots of talking heads in the “Alt Media”— but none like Dr. Bob! Or so I thought.
Then today, I found this comment in the comments on the post.
John Serink
This is absolutely true.
The term "Ukrainian" came into use in 1920 when Andri Melnyk established the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists after WWI . The term was never used prior to that. My family came to Canada in 1899 from Galicia in Austria and the churches and community halls they built all said the same thing, Greek Catholic....there was no mention of this thing "Ukrainian" because it did not exist and would not exist till 1991.
They called them selves Ruthenians (that is Latin, in English it's Rusyn, meaning peoples of Kiev and Rus). When the Ruthenian fascists were allowed into Canada after WW2, which included several hundred Greek Catholic and Greek Orthodox priests, all the names of the churches were changed in about 1953 from Greek Catholic to Ukrainian Greek Catholic and from Greek Orthodox to Ukrainian Greek Orthodox.
You silly Ruthenian peasants(farmers) aren't Ruthenian, you're Ukrainian didn't you know.
It's all made up. How can you be Ukrainian if a country called Ukraine didn't exist?
John
Since not a lot of people don’t read comments on articles, I thought I needed to post this.
There are many different opinions about “Ukraine”—most borrowed from other people, but how many of them bear witness to the basic facts?
\ John Serink”s family history goes back more than a century in Canada, and he clearly knows what he is talking about. For him, I think it is personal — and important . It is about heritage, I venture.
How many self-proclaimed “Ukrainians” know that they are talking about? How many know what their family was doing in 1899?
Thank you John.
Let us all bear witness to what we are and who we are and why we are.
This is really true!
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If that wasn't explanatory enough, let's see what clues we can get from the old-fashioned and nearly-forgotten Etymology:
Ukraine
by 1670s, from Russian or Polish Ukraina (Украина), a specific use of ukraina "border, frontier," according to Room, from Old Russian oukraina, from ou "by, at" + kraj region. He also notes that "The territory was so called because it was the borderland or 'frontier zone' of medieval Russia at the time of the Tatar invasion in the 13th century." https://www.etymonline.com/word/Ukraine
In other words, Ukraina was a term for the outhernmost belt of mideaval Tsarist Russia, which was under almost constant threat of being attacked from the outside [as an analogy, there's a region called Srpska Krajina in today's Croatia, which was mostly inhabited by Orthodox (Serbs) Christians before the Croats' infamous (NATO-assisted) Operation Storm (Bura) in 1994, but that's another story; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Serbian_Krajina]. In essence, Krajina in Serbian has equal meaning to Ukraina in Russian. Just sayin' :)
In fact, most of the places in LNR (Lugansk) that we see on the maps today (including the oldest still standing church) were built by Orthodox Christians from the Balkan region who were running away from Ottoman rule and who would rather inhabit the marshes and steppes of the Russian borderlands and be warriors in a Christian country than become serfs in their occupied homeland. There were even separate military formations in the Russian army consisting mainly of these Balkan settlers, among others the Macedonian and the Serbian Hussar Regiments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_Hussar_Regiment
The more I read about the origins of Ukraine, the more it becomes apparent that much of Europe is like a dormant volcano of tribes and ethnicities. Seems the era of dormancy is over and the deeply suppressed magma of ethnic hatred is now becoming active, smoldering and boiling, despite the the Post World War II settlement agreements at Yalta. Seems to me NATO's mad drive to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia is the main reason why repressed ethnic divisions are now rising to the surface. The current European elites are willing to reignite old hatreds as s a tool to keep their subjects divided and to prepare their population for war against any prospective rival whose wealth they covet. Today that rival is Russia but notice for example that currently Ukraine is now going after Hungary. For whom else does the bell toll?