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Russia's cult of the "Great Victory" on May 9 is not mourning but a militarist quasi-religion and political tool: Putin as the "new Stalin" who needs "Nazis," duly found in Ukraine.
Read more →The myth that Russia is the heir of Kyivan Rus' and Kyiv "originally Russian": Moscow only borrowed the Greek name of Rus' (Ῥωσία → "Rossiya"), brought to Zalissia after the Mongol invasion.
Read more →How Russia turned school history textbooks into a weapon: the Medinsky–Torkunov 'single textbook' (2023) rehabilitates Stalin, aiming above all to justify aggression against Ukraine.
Read more →The myth of the 1654 "reunification of Ukraine with Russia": Pereyaslav was a military protectorate, one of Khmelnytsky's alliances, and the lands were split only by the 1686 Eternal Peace.
Read more →The myth that "Ukrainian identity is artificial and Rus' = Russians" is false: "Rus'/Rusyn" became the ethnonym of the Ukrainian lands in the 13th century, long before modern nations.
Read more →After Rus', Ukraine's lands passed to Lithuania and Poland, then the Cossack state — not Moscow, which dismantled this continuity by war and Catherine II's decrees rather than 'inheriting' it.
Read more →Holos Pravdy is an open historical encyclopedia that systematizes the material from historian Vitaliy Drybnytsya's Vox Veritatis video debates. Every claim is backed by verified sources and linked to a video timecode.
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