March 8, 2022
How far will Putin go?
By James Nollet
The Fox News website ran this story, asking, “If Putin wants to remake the Soviet Union, what country would Russia target next?” and then went on to state a list of countries that were once part of the USSR.
But how far does Vladimir Putin wish to go? Why stop with the old Soviet Union?
He said in his famous paper of a couple of years ago that he regards what one could call the East Slavs – Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus – as one people, and properly living together as one, in one nation.
He has historical justification for his view. Russia itself was born, not in Moskva, which didn’t exist at the time, but in Kiev, where the first Christian King of Kievan Rus ruled, and extended his realm northward.
Belarus has been ruled from Moskva for centuries. And likewise Ukraine. The last leader of an independent Ukraine before 1991 was Bogdan Chmielnitsky, who ruled there until 1653. Chmielnitsky is honored to this day on Ukrainian currency. He is also notorious in that he oversaw in 1648 what was the largest pogrom of Jews in history until the Nazi Holocaust. 250,000 Jews were slaughtered by his forces.
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