Rurik, ‘Founder of Rus’ Dynasty’, Never Existed: Moscow may have invented the whole story...

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Muscovy-’Russia’ clings to Rurik with such ferocity as if this figure affects not only its history, but the very right to be called a...

Devilish cruelty is the most striking feature of the Russian national character, – Maxim...

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Maxim Gorky (1868 –1936) was a Russian and Soviet writer who was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1922, Gorky published the...

George F. Kennan’s Essay on De Custine’s ‘Russia in 1839’: the Best Book about...

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George F. Kennan (1904 – 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet...

Russians are semi-Asiatic, drilled, but not civilized; they resemble ‘trained bears who make you...

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"Russians… tread in the steps of European elegance, without knowing that refinement of habits has no value except as it announces the existence of...

Slavs originated in Ukraine and Belarus. They replaced 80% of local gene pool in...

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According to the Early Slavs - Wikipedia page, “A 2025 comprehensive archaeogenetic study published in Nature on 555 samples out of which 359 from the...

Russians looted toilets in Western Ukraine during WW1 already

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Battle of Galicia also known as the Great Battle of Galicia, was a major battle between Russia and Austria-Hungary during the early stages of World War I in 1914. In the...

Mongolian slavery, NOT democratic Kyiv Rus, formed Muscovy-Russia

“The bloody mire of Mongolian slavery, not the rude glory of the Norman epoch, forms the cradle of Muscovy, and modern Russia is but...

Novgorod the Great was a ‘Ukrainian’ city founded by Kyiv a century later than...

Per Wikipedia, Valentin Yanin (1929 - 2020) was a leading Russian historian who authored 700 books and articles whose expertise was especially Novgorod the Great, where he...

Kyiv Rus vs. Golden Horde: Catherine II’s curious details about the first battle at...

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After Catherine II "the great" of Muscovy, died in 1796, among her papers, the 'Reflections on the Project of History of Russia' written in...

‘They Fought Each Other for Unity’ oxymoron: Moscow’s Attack on Novgorod Republic in 1471...

Per Wikipedia, the Battle of Shelon was a battle between the forces of the Duchy of Moscow under Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and the...