Ex-chairman of the SBU: the word “Ukraine” is much older than the word “Russia”
The word “Ukraine” is older than the word “Russia”, which arose with Peter I, who called the Moscow state that way. Two-thirds of modern Ukraine is occupied by the territory of ancient Rus', which has nothing to do with Muscovy.
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About it on NewsOne channel said the former chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine Igor Smeshko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“But if we already touched on this topic, the word “Little Russia” arose in the XNUMXth century and began to be actively used under Catherine II. The words “Russia” and “Rus” are two different words. “Russia” arose with Peter I, who called the Muscovite state, Muscovy, Russia. “Rus” is an ancient word that has nothing to do with the former destinies of the Vladimir-Suzdal, Ryazan, Novgorod and Pskov lands. Rus' is the name of the metropolis of the Rurik Empire in the Middle Ages, and I refer everyone to the classic of Marxism-Leninism, Karl Marx. In his famous work “A Study of the Diplomatic History of Europe in the XNUMXth Century,” which was banned in the Soviet Union, he wrote that the history of Rus' is sewn to the Moscow state and present-day Russia with white threads,” Smeshko said.
According to him, the Gothic history of the Rurik Empire is as great a story as the history of the empire of Charlemagne in Western Europe, which had a huge civilizational impact on Eastern and Central Europe.
“Rus, strictly speaking, is 2/3 of the territory of present-day Ukraine. All other lands that the metropolis of this empire had under vassalage were called “lands”. Anyone who doubts that the word “Ukraine” is much older than the word “Russia”, I will refer to Voltaire’s work “The History of Charles XII” of 1730, where he writes: “Ukraine has always strived for independence, but surrounded by three empires, it fought very hard for and was forced to seek the protectorate of one of them,” the ex-chairman of the SBU is sure.
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