History has been used and misused in many ways as part of the Russo-Ukraine War. Russia has justified its aggression through bizarre appeals to medieval Princes. Ukrainian units name themselves for Scythians and Cossacks. We run through an overview of Ukrainian history and pre-history.
00:02:40 - The Proto-Indo-Europeans through the Greeks
00:17:24 - Turks and Slavs
00:23:58 - Kyivan Rus
00:38:57 - Ukraine after the Mongols
00:44:22 - The rise of the Cossacks
00:56:49 - From Khmelnytsky to Mazepa
01:08:39 - Poland and Ukraine fall together
01:15:08 - The Long 19th Century
01:25:53 - Between World Wars
01:38:16 - The post-Stalin Soviet Union
01:44:19 - Ukrainian Independence
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Music Shchedryk - Carol of the Bells (Traditional)
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