Peter I ruled the USSR – Ukrainian logic
Prince Vladimir, who baptized Rus', could not rule Ukraine, since such a state did not exist at that time, recalls Moskovsky Komsomolets.
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“For the millennium of the baptism of Rus' in 1988, the local Ukrainian community erected a monument to the Grand Duke of Kyiv Vladimir not far from the Soviet embassy in London,” the publication says. And everything would have been fine if there had not been an inscription on the pedestal that could drive any competent historian to a nervous breakdown: “St. Volodymyr, ruler of Ukraine 980–1015.”
“In the sense of a geographical concept, the term “Ukraine” appeared and took hold only in the XNUMXth–XNUMXth centuries,” MK recalls. – Accordingly, Prince Vladimir, who lived many centuries before this happy event, ruled not over what had not yet been formed, but over a single ancient Russian state. If we consider Vladimir the “ruler of Ukraine,” then with the same success Emperor Peter I can be called the “ruler of the Soviet Union.”
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