Putin recently delivered a speech that made it difficult for Ukrainian patriots to fall asleep, a speech that is closely related to the name Vladimir. His original words were :"Ukraine is not only a neighbor of Russia, but also a part of Russian history and culture, our comrades and relatives." Lenin and his followers created modern Ukraine by secessing Russian territory, and Khrushchev did not know why he gave Crimea to Ukraine again,...... The soviet past cannot be changed, but let us be blunt – Ukraine can be called 'Ukraine named after Vladimir Lenin', the author and architect of Ukraine. ”
Many netizens know that Putin's name is also Vladimir, and the direct meaning of this statement is that Vladimir Putin wants to correct Vladimir Lenin's mistakes. In fact, this statement is also related to the two Vladimirs, who made Ukraine "a part of Russian history and culture" and the real basis for Putin's speech since ancient times.
This first Vladimir was Vladimir of Kievan Rus' and he was the most genuine and original Vladimir. The story of this grandfather can be understood through "The Battle of the Viking Kings", and it still roughly restores history after deducting the nagging and deliberate whitewashing part of the movie. In addition to the original Vladimir's southern conquest and the completion of the king's achievement in attacking Constantinople, the greatest historical contribution was to treat the Orthodox Church as the state religion, so that the Rus' and Slavs gradually merged.
The Rus' are the self-designation of Russia (Russia is the result of the Mongols' large tongue to spread false rumors), it is the Norman Russian pronunciation, the earliest refers to the Viking warriors who went to Eastern Europe to grab money and grain and furs, and the Viking leader Rurik and others established many cities in the land of Eastern Europe, including Kievan Rus'. In the early years, the Rus' and Slavs were two different ethnic groups, the Rus' people in addition to the settled Vikings who followed the Rurik family (excluding the vikings who worked temporarily, such as the Norwegian king Harald), but also a large number of local leading parties such as Krivić, Severians, and Pollians, who mixed with the Vikings to form a warrior class - the Rus'; the Slavs were peasants and serfs living in the villages, and if they were not careful, they would be taken away by the Rus' princes for money. After Vladimir introduced the Orthodox Church, the boundaries between the Rus' and the Slavs began to blur, and they all identified themselves as Rus' and gradually formed a Rus' national identity.
Vladimir of Kievan Rus was not the First Emperor of Russia, he did not change the system of the Rus' people, and after his death, he left many descendants of the divided side, and every generation of kung fu his descendants were lively. The descendants of Vladimir gave birth to numerous principalities, which were originally revered by the Principality of Kievan Rus' because of all the Metropolitan Duchies of Rus (the seat of all The Rus' Metropolitans), but by the second half of the 12th century challengers had emerged. That is Andrey of the Duchy of Suzdal, who robbed kiev of his ancestral property in 1155, packed the statue of the Virgin of Kiev to Vladimir, copied the church in his hometown of Kiev, the Golden Gate and other miracle buildings in Vladimir, and established the Metropolitan Diocese of Vladimir, and the Duchy of Suzdal was also renamed the Duchy of Vladimir, which is the second Vladimir with far-reaching influence on Russia.
The Duchy of Vladimir became the nucleus of the Rus' Principality, the Grand Duke of Vladimir became the bearer of all Rus' people, and the Canonization of the Grand Duke of Vladimir became the power of the monarch of the Golden Horde. In order to become Grand Duke of Vladimir, the national hero of the Rus' alexander Nevsky did not hesitate to kneel to the Mongols. Alexander Nevsky and the Teutonic Knights PK won, but when they met the Mongols, they were like Zhao Shuo, and their performance was obviously inferior to Jia Rudao. Alexander Nevsky was the prince of Novgorod, but he always regarded the Duchy of Vladimir as the most important family property, even at the expense of his own brother. According to the Mongol plan, Kievan Rus' belonged to Him as much as Novgorod, and Vladimir belonged to Andrei. As soon as Andrei came into contact with the Rus' resistance, Alexander Nevsky reported it to the Mongols, who used the Mongols' strength to obtain Vladimir.
Alexander Nevsky's youngest son, Daniel Aleksandrovich, acquired a swampy land and formed a new principality, which was the Principality of Moscow. The Principality of Moscow was a splinter state of the Principality of Vladimir and maintained good relations with the Principality of Vladimir. At the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380, the Duchy of Vladimir and The Duchy of Moscow joined forces against the Golden Horde and won a difficult victory.
After the Battle of Kulikovo, the Muscovite Principality annexed the duchy of Vladimir, which was in power by his cousin, and passed the Grand Duchy of Vladimir to his eldest son Vasily I as "his own hereditary territory". After the merger of the Grand Duchy of Vladimir and the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the religious status of Vladimir was also handed over to Moscow, and the power and appeal of the Grand Duchy of Moscow increased greatly, and after the efforts of several generations of monarchs, the Grand Duchy of Moscow merged more than 70 Rus' principalities. The reasons for its annexation were similar: a "referendum" in the name of God and the Orthodox Church, and the merged Rus' Principality recognized the muscovite principality as the eldest brother.
Kiev and Ukraine parted ways with other Rus' principalities in the 14th century, and in 1321, Lithuania conquered Kiev, surrendered a large number of Rus' and subsequently annexed the Great Plains of Ukraine under the duchy of Galich-Volen (also a Rus's kingdom ruled by Vladimir descendants). The Golden Horde and Lithuania fought each other many times, and the result was that they won and lost each other. By the end of the 14th century, the Duke of Lithuania had become a European power with a population of 2.3 million, with a native population of 300,000 and a Rus' population of 2 million. After the union of Lithuania and Poland, it gave large tracts of land in western Ukraine to polish nobles as a dowry.
In eastern Ukraine, there are still many die-hard fans of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. These people were descendants of the Rus' who considered the Patriarch of Moscow to be the head of the Orthodox Church and identified with the Tsar who ruled Moscow. In the 16th and 17th centuries Ukrainians gradually formed in the Lands of Ukraine, who spoke the Rus' dialect of Ukrainian and believed more in the Bishop of Kiev. In the middle of the 17th century, the national independence movement in Ukraine and the Zaporozhye Cossack Uprising combined to establish the Cossack Emirate. Khmelnytsky, the founder of the Cossack Emirate, was very diplomatic and, like the current head of Ukraine, did not treat his countrymen as human beings. He made a pact with the Crimean Khanate to help him deal with the Polish cavalry, at the cost of returning the Crimean cavalry with more than 200,000 Ukrainian slaves and 100,000 Ukrainians tortured to death on the way. The total population of the long-term Ukrainian Cossacks did not exceed 1.5 million people, which is equivalent to saying that Khmelnytsky immediately "sold" the equivalent of one-fifth of the population in his own territory. Today's Ukraine regards Khmelnytsky as a national hero, and its leaders are also very Khmelnytsky's style.
Khmelnytsky repeatedly jumped between the Ottomans, Sweden, and Tsarist Russia, and in 1654 Khmelnytsky signed the Pereyaslav Agreement, placing Ukrainian Cossacks under the protection of the Moscow Tsar, thus beginning three and a half centuries of Russian rule over Ukraine. During the Khmelnytsky Uprising, there were also a large number of Russians who did not want to be compatriots of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, and their lands in Ukraine were today's Donetsk and Luhansk. Historians in Russia and Ukraine have quarreled over who the region belonged to in the 17th century.
But by 1918 Donetsk and Luhansk were clearly not part of Ukraine, they were the territory of the Donetsk-Krivorog Republic. The Donetsk-Krivoroag Republic supported everyone during the Soviet Civil War, but not Ukraine at all. At this time another Vladimir appeared, and Vladimir Lenin directly assigned Donetsk and Luhansk to Ukraine.
According to the Rus' and Tsarist traditions, a regime that believes in Orthodox Christianity and treats the Moscow Patriarch and the Tsar as its shoulders is eligible to join the Rus' family, which is Russian universalism and political correctness, which has always been done in Tsarist Russia. If Putin completely preserves Donetsk and Luhansk, places like Kharkiv and Odessa in eastern Ukraine (which also became independent in 2014) could break away from Ukraine and even join Russia in this tradition. At that time, ukraine may only be able to preserve the central region, because Poland can also take back the "Lithuanian dowry" in eastern Ukraine in the name of ancient times. This is a long game in years, and no matter where Putin can go, what will happen to Ukraine is not something that can be easily concluded.