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ARTICLE
10 popular misconceptions about Ukrainian history, debunked
Asami Terajima and Iryna Matviyishyn
April 11, 2023
https://kyivindependent.com/10-popular-misconceptions-about-ukrainian-history-debunked/
From the birth of Kyivan Rus, the first East Slavic state, to the onset of armed conflicts in the ensuing centuries, untangling Ukraine’s past is never easy.
Ukraine – through its long and turbulent history – gained independence in 1991.
The country’s long history before and after independence has seen Ukrainians enduring wars, revolutions, occupations, and a fraught relationship with its neighbor, Russia
Understanding Ukraine’s origins becomes even more complex as Russia has been on a centuries-long quest to distort Ukrainian history in an attempt to justify its brutal invasions.
While most of the Kremlin’s disinformation campaign is dismissed by Ukraine, the West, and many around the world, the wide net that Russia’s false narratives have cast globally have allowed historical misconceptions to arise.
The Kyiv Independent has put together 10 common historical misconceptions about Ukraine that can still be commonly heard today.
VIDEO https://youtu.be/6p4CWUtAxls
CRIMEA HAS ‘ALWAYS BEEN RUSSIAN’
According to this MYTH, Crimea has always been Russian, and by annexing the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, Russia was “correcting” a historical mistake.
Despite Russia’s claim that Crimea has “always been Russian,” the majority Muslim indigenous population of Crimea, Crimean Tatars, settled in the peninsula centuries before the Russian Empire conquered it in the 18th century.
After violating a peace treaty with the Ottomans in 1783, the Russian Empire illegally annexed Crimea for the first time. Russia ruled the peninsula for around 150 years until the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917.
During the Soviet Union, the Crimean Tatar population in Crimea faced repressions, persecution, and deportations. Ukraine estimates that over 230,000 people were deported starting in 1944, mostly to Uzbekistan.
The deportation of the Crimean Tatars, in which over 100,000 people perished as a result of starvation and disease, is recognized as genocide by Ukraine and several other countries.
It was only in the mid-20th century, following the ethnic cleansing of the Crimean population, that ethnic Russians became the majority in Crimea. The Turkic indigenous population became a minority due to the forced resettlement of Russians into the area and the suppression and assimilation of the local culture and language.
In 1954, the Soviet authorities transferred Crimea from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (modern-day Ukraine).
The Soviet authorities listed “the commonality of the economy, territorial proximity, and close economic and cultural ties between the Crimean region and the Ukrainian SSR” as the reasons. However, the circumstances of the transfer are still a topic of debate today.
One theory suggests that then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev may have transferred the peninsula to mark the 300th anniversary of the Pereiaslav Agreement, which Russia frames as a treaty of union between Russia and Ukraine.
Soon after the transfer, Ukraine’s Soviet Socialist Republic was tasked with constructing the North Crimean Canal, which connected the Dnipro River with the dry peninsula.
After launching its war against Ukraine in 2014, the Kremlin has attempted to legitimize the annexation of Crimea with Russian propaganda claiming that it was taking back the peninsula that it had given as “a gift” to Ukraine.
But as the facts show, Russia only controlled the peninsula for a fraction of its history.
“Less than 6% of Crimea’s written history (from the 9th century BC to date) belongs to the Russian chapter,” Orysia Lutsevych, a research fellow at Chatham House, said.
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Hold up… we were told that Putin was “literally out of options” last December. How could this be?