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Originally Posted by movingwiththewind
And who are those "real Ukrainians"? (Ethnic) Russians? The so-called "rebels" who are Russian citizens?  |
The "real Ukrainians" are, actually much closer to Russians living in the Eastern part of the country than they'll ever be to the inhabitants of Galicia.
I can even explain why.
See after the decline of Kiev, back in the end of the 11th century, three major powers emerged ruled by the off-springs of the same Rurik dynasty that founded Kiev - principality of Galicia-Volhynia, Novgorod and Vladimir-Suzdal.
Now this is what happened to Galicia-Volhynia - it has been promptly subjected under Polish dominance, and Poland means "Catholicism."
The
Principality of Galicia–Volhynia,
[1] or
Kingdom of Rus' (
Old Ruthenian Галицко-Волинскоє Королѣвство,
Latin:
Regnum Galiciae et Lodomeriae, Regnum Russiae), was a state in the regions of
Galicia and
Volhynia of present day
Ukraine that was formed after the conquest of Galicia by the Prince of Volhynia
Roman the Great with the help of
Leszek the White of
Poland. Roman the Great united the principalities of
Halych (Galicia) and
Volhynia into a state that existed from 1199 to 1349. Along with
Novgorod and
Vladimir-Suzdal, it was one of the three most important powers to emerge from the collapse of
Kievan Rus'.
Kingdom of Galicia
Not only that, BUT;
"After the enormous destruction wreaked by the
Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' in 1239–41, Prince
Danylo Romanovych was forced to pledge allegiance to Batu Khan of the
Golden Horde in 1246. He strove to rid his realm of the Mongol yoke, however, by a formal orientation to western Europe (coronation as a "Rex Rusiae" by a
papal legate in 1253) and by attempting, unsuccessfully, to establish military alliances with other European rulers.
[2] The Polish conquest of the kingdom in 1349 ended its vassalage to the Golden Horde.
[3]"
Hence, the subordination to the Rome was exactly what Kiev was earlier consciously avoiding, making a deal with Byzantium instead, and - more than that, fighting for having its own autocephalous Orthodox church.
Whatever fate later befall to the principality of Volhynia-Galicia, whether it remained under Poland, Lithuania or Austro-Hungarian dominance, the rest of Ukraine rebelled against Polish dominance and asked for protection of Moscow in 1654, in order to retain its cultural Orthodox identity. (Principality of Moscow by the way was the successor of both Vladimir-Suzdal AND Novgorod.)
( you can read more about Volhynia-Galicia here,)
Galicia (Eastern Europe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So while Volhihya-Galicia remained for the most part under the foreign influence and in foreign sphere of interest, the rest of Ukraine joined Russia in 1654, where it remained for the next 300+ years, while Galicia has been *gifted* to Ukraine by Stalin only in 1939 as far as I remember.
So to impose the Galitians with their historic/cultural traits as "true Ukrainian type" on the rest of the country ( and that's what basically is taking place from Maidan on,) while announcing the Russians living in the Eastern part of the country as "undesirables" is preposterous, to say the least.
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