11 апреля 2022

Наконец, усилиями коллективного разума разместили на "100 книг" английский вариант моей статьи "Почему русские никогда не откажутся от Украины. Разошлите англоязычным знакомым. Может быть понимания чуть прибавится. https://100knig.com/istoriya/why-russians-will-never-give-up-on-ukraine/ Why do Russians perceive Ukraine as Russia? First of all, personal ties. An enormous number of Russian citizens were born on Ukrainian territory, but they do not consider themselves Ukrainians, especially in the sense implied by Kiev authorities. Even more Russian citizens have ancestors and relatives in Ukraine. It would be surprising to find a Russian citizen who has none at all. That is, Russians perceive Ukraine as their ancestral land in the most literal sense of the word, ready to point out the graves of relatives and the plot of land on which their house stood. When the administrative boundaries of the republics of the USSR were turned into “hard” borders in 1991, 8 million people who had been considered Russians in the narrowest, ethnic sense of the word, turned out to be “Ukrainians” in the legal sense. Quite often, the ties were torn like living tissue. For example, Kharkov and Belgorod, essentially twin cities founded in the same era, the late 16th to mid-17th centuries, by Russian tsars as outposts against Crimean Tatar incursions, ended up on opposite sides of the border. The country houses of the inhabitants of “Russian” Belgorod turned out to be on the territory of Ukraine, and the country houses of the inhabitants of “Ukrainian” Kharkov, vice versa. Therefore, Russians from Russia are perplexed as to why the regime in Kiev thinks it has the right to dispose of their land, especially considering that this regime came to power through a coup and subsequent direct intimidation against the backdrop of a civil war. And it is not surprising that many people support the so-called separatists. This term, however, is misleading: in relation to unified Russia, it is the Kiev regime that can rather be considered separatist, while Crimean activists or Donbass militia are more likely to fall under the definition of “separatists from separatists,” that is, «unionists». Both the activism in Crimea, the insurrection in Donbass, and the protests in Odessa, suppressed in a massacre in which some 50 people were brutally murdered in one evening on May 2, 2014, were all, in the logic of a greater and united Russia, unionist, not separatist. Если хотите поддержать сайт "100 книг", делаемый мною исключительно в личное время и на добровольные пожертвования: Патреон (работает теперь только с иностранцами), Бусти (для подписчиков в России), прямо на карту: 4276 3800 5886 3064