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Ukrainian Identity vs Putin’s tyranny - Volodymyr Yermolenko with the Silicon Curtain podcast

Explaining Ukraine

CHAPTER

The Origin Myths of the Russian Empire

The Roman Empire subsumed other cultures and dominated them, but it didn't extinguish every aspect. This title that Muscovíhas as sort of appropriative for itself comes in a tradition of appropriation of cultures. In this way, I do think that Russia is different because we see that Russia was trying to annex the past. The same actually with Kiev because one of the reasons, one of the causes of this war is a very psychoanalytical cause.

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