The "History of Russia" series. Video No. 2. Chapters 1–2 (05.07.2025)

The second installment of the debunking cycle (a monologue in Russian): an analysis of chapters 1–2 of volume 2 of “History of Russia” — “Eastern Europe in the first century of the Middle Ages.” The author shows that Slavs are recorded in written sources only from the 6th century (Jordanes, Procopius of Caesarea), and that their homeland lay in the territories of present-day Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus, while the future Russian lands were inhabited by Baltic and Finno-Ugric tribes. Key point: the academic edition’s own maps, when current borders are overlaid, place 90–95% of Slavic archaeological cultures on the territory of Ukraine — despite the concluding claim about “the contours of the future state of Rus’.” He addresses separately the inclusion of occupied Crimea in the title of chapter 3. A source for the articles “How ‘Rus” became ‘Russia’” and “How Russia rewrites history in its textbooks.”