RUSSIA AROSE OUT OF THE KIEVAN RUS, IN PRESENT DAY UKRAINE, MORE THAN 1000 YEARS AGO.

The racial tapestry is complicated and immense, mixing in Baltic Germans, Finns, Crimean Tartars, Greeks and Armenian Jews.

Muravyov was a true forerunner of what is labelled 'denazification" by Putin today, and which is, in fact a brutal and forcible russification. It was him who rooted out Catholicism in Belarus and turned it into a Russian-speaking country. He was widely cheered in Russia as a hero pic.twitter.com/FCXH1RppgX
— Easy Rider (@EasyRid04682094) April 3, 2022

Tension with the Turkic world persists in conflicts such as that between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Crimea, in fact, used to be a Khanate in the Ottoman mold until its defeat in the 18th Century.

Communism in Russia lasted only one 80-year cycle.

The Second World War has been considered a non-crisis war.

On 14 February 1943 the Red Army liberated #Lugansk (at the time - Voroshilovgrad) from Nazi invaders. It is tragic that 76 years later the city is being shelled & attacked by Ukrainian military & National Guard units filled with Neo-Nazis & having Nazi emblems in their insignias pic.twitter.com/qS4ecS0IME
— Russia in RSA 🇷🇺 (@EmbassyofRussia) February 14, 2019

Cossacks are like the cowboys of Russia.

Indeed, Russia had two gigantic rebellions in 1667—1671 and 1773–1775. Based on their Marxist paradigm, Soviets labeled them as "peasants" rebellions. Which was highly inaccurate. Both largest rebellions in Russian history were led by Cossacks - Stepan Razin and Yemelyan Pugachev pic.twitter.com/J2nTYAlgl0
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) March 21, 2022