ICTV Commentary (27 May 2025)
An ICTV studio discussion between host Hryhorii Herman and historian Vitaliy Dribnytsia about pseudohistorical claims by Russian politicians. The material new to the site is the documentary sequence by which the USSR ceased to exist in December 1991. Claims about recognition of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, the Bolshevik conquest of Ukraine and Russian claims to Crimea were not duplicated, because the existing articles already cover them in detail.
Key moments
- 02:10 The myth of a legally extant USSR and the documents ending the Union
- 02:52 The Bolshevik conquest of recognized post-imperial states
- 05:47 Ukraine's resources and the survival of Bolshevik rule
- 08:49 International law against revisions of modern borders
- 10:56 Russian territorial claims against Ukraine beginning in 1992
- 13:13 A Russian senator's manipulation about Neanderthals and families
- 19:19 The frontier, elective monarchy and Ukraine's political culture
- 25:08 Imperial tradition and the prospects for political change in Russia