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>Kievan Rus' (Old East Slavic: Роусь, romanized: Rusĭ, or роусьскаѧ землѧ romanized: rusĭskaę zemlę, "Rus' land") or Kyivan Rus',[2][3] was a loose federation o
by pope_meat 5y ago
>Kievan Rus' (Old East Slavic: Роусь, romanized: Rusĭ, or роусьскаѧ землѧ romanized: rusĭskaę zemlę, "Rus' land") or Kyivan Rus',[2][3] was a loose federation of East Slavic and Finno-Ugric peoples in Eastern and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century,[4][5] under the reign of the Rurik dynasty, founded by the Varangian prince Rurik.[5] The modern nations of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine all claim Kievan Rus' as their cultural ancestors
Copied from the Wikipedia, so if anything that suggests we need to bring back the USSR and reunite all the Slavs under one flag.
роусьскаѧ землѧ literally translates to "Russian land"
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> if anything that suggests we need to bring back the USSR and reunite all the Slavs under one flag Okay, taking that at face value, nothing says Moscow has to be in charge. And the Mongols once controlled Russian territory. Speaking of which, Moscow hasn't controlled its eastern territories for long--should we dissolve Russian influence east of the Urals? Returning "historical" lands is the casus belli of every dictator. It's arbitrary, empty and infinitely extensible.
- pope_meat 5y agoI was thinking of St Petersburg as the capital of the unified Russia, for historical reasons.
- JumpCrisscross 5y agoI like it. Maybe with a German-born Empress for some Ekaterinian flare—Angela Merkel, perhaps?
- pope_meat 5y agoI don't think that's going to fly, the Germans really soured the relationship in 1941.
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