BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 03:11:00
The russian mythology and the kremlin current mythology is that khrushchev was giving away land and putin now is a gatherer of them. i don't think it is the soviet union, i think it is much more the traditions of russian i,000—year—long history, and as we all know, ukraine... i mean kyiv was the... kievan rus' was the proto—state for both russians and ukrainians, and putin feels that if he unites the lands of the past, of history, he would be as important as all the other greats in russian history, vladimir the great, the original kievan prince, peter the great, catherine the great, stal...