Lenin invented Russia

And then he repeated the mantra that the Bolsheviks and Lenin personally created the Ukraine he hates, although he did not give instructions to take the mummy out of the mausoleum for this.

Many people have already commented on his rantings, even "good Russians". They write that the Kremlin dwarf is once again carried away by powerlessness, that Ukraine has always been, is and will be, but Russia will soon be gone, and so on. However, these are all noble emotions, and perhaps this is the way to respond to the insinuations of a war criminal. And I wouldn't even mention all this, because there is already too much attention, but still, returning to the story with geography, I did not hear the main thing from all these comments.

“Namely, Putin's main lie is not that there was no Ukraine in the 17th century, but that there was no Russia itself then”

Of course, it can be argued, especially by "good Russians," that it did exist, but it was called Muscovy, or the Moscow Kingdom. Well, if so, then Ukraine was called something else, at least - Cossack land. And some maps from the same 17th century show Ukraine, and even a name similar to Russia, but not where it is now, but in Galicia, as a derivative of Rus. After all, those maps were drawn before the Muscovites appropriated this name under Peter the Great.

And if Ukraine, represented by either the Ukrainian Cossacks or Bohdan Khmelnytsky, did enter into any agreements or military alliances, it was with Muscovy, not Russia. And Russia, the Russian Empire, simply conquered us, destroyed us, and denied us, as colonisers should, without any agreements. And the modern so-called Russian Federation is only continuing this shameful tradition. By the way, Lenin definitely came up with this idea of replacing the empire, and maybe that's why they still don't let him out of the mausoleum, at least not yet.

Specially for Espreso.

About the author: Oleksandr Vilchynskyi is a writer and journalist. In 2016-2017, he was a volunteer and fought as a private soldier in the 1st Separate Assault Company of the Ukrainian Air Force.

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