Ukraine is the “big brother” of the Russian Federation, which gave it statehood. Former head of the SBU Igor Smeshko said this on air at UkrLife.
According to him, Ukraine is now responsible for its “younger brother.”
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“If we say who is the elder and who is the younger brother, then this is understandable - the elder brother who gave statehood, who gave the Orthodox faith to these lands. These are modern Ukrainians.
Moreover, when the entire system of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union began to work to rewrite history and devalue the Ukrainian people and nation. The main thing that was killed was that history and the nobility were taken away, almost all of the gentry moved to the territory of Moscow and St. Petersburg. The main problem is that the inheritance of the state building process was interrupted...
Russia is our younger brother, for whom we are responsible. At one time, we gave her Christianity, the foundations of state building, we covered her with our body from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from the Tatars, we gave her the best we have,” Smeshko said.