cranium historian. it's very strange, when you're surrounded by the reality of ukrainian history to hear distant tyrant declare that it doesn't exist. obviously he's wrong. not the soviet union, ukraine, opposite is closer to the truth. the soviet union transform it did, that, is as a union of republics with national names, precisely because the founders of the soviet union knew that there was a ukrainian question a knew they had to address it in some way. ukrainian actual movement went back 100 years before it -- the soviet union. the elements of ukrainian history go back to the middle ages. yeah. he's got it completely wrong, but it's more important politically, what he's doing. when you deny that another nation exists, you are making a claim that it is okay to destroy that other nation. this kind of language, that another nation doesn't exist, is something we have to pay attention to, because usually