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Are you referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unity_of_Russians_and_Ukrainians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unit

• alangibson 3y ago
  No. Just looking at demographics and making guesses based on them. I'd never take a piece of propoganda like that seriously. It's true that the first people calling themselves Rus were centered around Kiev, but drawing the conclusion "modern-day Ukraine occupies historically Russian lands" is absurd.
  • red-iron-pine 3y ago
    Comparing the Kievian Rus to modern Russia is like comparing the Franks (a Germanic people, from Franconia in Germany) to the French. Like, yeah, they may have originated there, but 1000 years later they ain't the same people.
    • alangibson 3y ago
      Agreed. It's a paper thin pretext.