Does Putin’s view of history explain why he invaded Ukraine?
The Inquiry
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Is the Word Ukraine Used?
Ruse remains a multi ethnic ste, but orthodoxy does become the glue that holds this complex poliny together. The invasion of the mongols divided its slavic people into three distinctive modern day nations russia, ukraine and bellaruse. In the sixteenth century, you begin to get dissident group of orthodox believers who don't like em the way that this polish lithuanian commonwealth is operating. And they are called the cossacks. They eventually come to see themselves as the muscle of the orthodox people,. Who they see as oppressed by poles and by cathol ism. Here is where we get into contemporary debates about nationality.
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