CNN CNN Newsroom With Pamela Brown March 13, 2022 03:53:00
And you know, when you talk about the war in ukraine, there's a gigantic irony here which is -- not to get too historical -- but st. vladimir in 988 a.d., when he was -- he was a pagan, and when he accepted christianity he did it in kyiv. kyiv, ukraine. so kyiv at that point was the center of the early form of modern russia. so when vladimir putin starts talking about history, he wrote over the summer this enormous treatise about how kraens and russians are the same -- ukraines and russians are the same. that's what he's talking about. it sounds like ancient history, but it's very, very curren...
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