Ukrainian yoke. Slavic fault: Ukrainian-Polish yoke in Russia

Why is Kyiv and the southwestern principalities considered to be the center of all Russian history? By whose will is the no less ancient North (Novgorod, Pskov, Smolensk, Ryazan) or the Volga region considered second-class? This book shows with merciless clarity why the entire Russian history is presented exclusively from pro-Western, South Slavic and Polish positions. The facts collected here are evidence

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“The entire Russian history is presented exclusively from the Ukrainian-Polish position, and this fact is still completely unrealized,” he writes in the book “ Slavic fault. Ukrainian-Polish yoke in Russia» Alexander Pyzhikov- Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor. And it’s not without reason that he chooses such a provocative name. The author believes that it is time to put an end to this and tears off the masks that have grown to our faces, which we cannot distinguish. The basis of inferences is not assumptions, conjectures and conjectures, but scientific evidence, facts used in monographs, works or published in various collections of documents. The evidence is based on an analysis of vast factual material from sources, as well as research from both the pre-revolutionary and Soviet periods. The precedents collected by the historian reveal the core of our history, where Ukraine has played a fatal role since the times of Kievan Rus, and sheds light on the behind-the-scenes fuss at the throne in the largest and richest state in the world. This centuries-old struggle of an alien elite for the possibility of controlling vast territories and “milking” our country led to the purposeful centuries-long occupation of Russia and resulted in a total spiritual and religious dictatorship of the Polonized elite, skillfully hiding its dominance.

Video review of the book Slavic Rift from the author

Pereyaslavl Rada. “Forever with Moscow, forever with the Russian people.” Artist M. Khmelko, 1951.

Towards unity with the West

It is impossible to understand the intricacies of the medieval era without clarifying the role of Byzantium. Let us recall that in 1261 the crusaders were expelled from Constantinople, and the Palaiologos family came to power, founding a new dynasty. They gained the throne only thanks to the support of the Genoese, who dreamed of ousting the Venetians from the region. From then on, they ruled the Black Sea for almost two hundred years. The income of the emperors and Genoese from trade and collection of customs duties was distributed as one to seven, i.e. a coin to the city, and seven to Genoa.

In such conditions, one could only dream of economic or military power. Constantinople was left to focus on the spiritual or something similar, which became the main craft of Byzantium under the Palaiologos. The intellectual elite of this period concentrated on justifying unity with the West. The ancient world was used as a tool. With its help, they demonstrated the common origin and cultural identity of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Thus, the foundation was laid for a union with the papacy, of which the Palaiologi were ardent adherents.

However, such historical quests caused heartburn in the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Orthodox leaders did not share ancient hobbies, as they were contrary to the Christian spirit. Such critics were not welcome at the imperial court, and therefore opposition to Latinism matured in the monasteries. The Athonite fathers, in contrast to the promoted antiquity, relied on contemporary state formations spread across the northern expanses, paying special attention to the Moscow principality.

The idea of ​​the Athonite party was the following: to unite under its spiritual leadership a vast territory from southwestern Rus', Lithuania to the eastern principalities led by Moscow. Of course, this is not easy to implement, and therefore an ideal past was constructed to help, when everyone was united. The historical image of a certain “All Rus'” emerged as an example of the desired future for all the peoples living here, and the role of the “cradle mother” was entrusted to Kyiv. Developing this concept, they started talking about Little and Great Rus': Little (Kievan) is the indigenous Rus', and everything else that grew out of it is Great.

Let us note that the Athonite authors were not distinguished by originality: they simply copied the work of those who improvised with antiquity and were already operating with might and main on the image of Ancient (pagan) Greece. Little (indigenous) Greece also appeared there, which then transformed into Great Greece. Orthodoxy in its Greek version was declared to be the only binding element of “all Rus'”: it was this, and not the pagan heritage, that should become the banner around which to rally. If we call a spade a spade, then Athonite technologists planned, on the one hand, to “feed” vast territories for their own benefit, and on the other, to sell the united religious asset in the form of “barbarian territories” to the same Rome in payment for supporting Byzantium in the fight against infidels. Hence the persistence with which the metropolitans appointed by Constantinople pursued the religious unity of “all Rus'.”

According to the laws of commerce

For people of the 15th–16th centuries, there was no division into the political and religious spheres. The word “politics” itself came into use only on the eve of the 18th century. The role of an instrument in achieving essentially political goals was performed by the church. The strengthening of the Lithuanian-Polish “clan” directly depended on strong positions in the church sphere.

The alpha and omega of pro-Romanov scientists (Karamzin, Ustryalov, Pogodin) is that the Polish-Ukrainian cadres dissolved in the public environment - religiously united with them. They cannot admit that the Church of Muscovy and the Church in Lithuania and Ukraine are two big differences.

Our church, unlike the Uniate one, tried to adhere to two unshakable principles. First, a church cannot be a business structure, which means it cannot conduct trade and property transactions. Secondly, given the multinational structure of the country, it must be adapted to other beliefs. This made it possible to maintain balanced relations with the same widespread Islam. It was precisely this kind of religiosity that the great holy ascetic Sergius of Radonezh advocated. But such a church atmosphere was alien to Lithuania and Ukraine with its Catholic trends. A church that was not immersed in commerce was considered second-class there, and loyalty to Muslims was perceived as something beyond the pale.

Instead of zemstvo cathedrals

On January 8, 1654, the Pereyaslav Treaty on the annexation of Ukraine to Russia was concluded. For Ukrainian-Polish immigrants who rallied around the Romanovs, this was an epoch-making event. The opportunity arose to finally explain to everyone why they were in charge here. If previously state legitimation, including Mikhail Fedorovich, was based on zemstvo councils, which were considered a natural source of power, now Little Russia is replacing this institution.

It is no coincidence that since its annexation in 1654, the practice of convening zemstvo councils has ceased. There is no longer a need for them, since the Romanov power was declared to be a continuation of the true principles personified by Ukraine, which outweighs the representation of lands clouded by Tatar impurities; the center of gravity of state building shifted. Therefore, the possession of Ukraine pursued not so much economic goals, as is traditionally believed, but rather extremely important ideological meanings. From that time on, the war with Poland turned, by and large, into a struggle for Ukraine.

Beneficiaries of the reform

At the so-called Great Council of 1666–1667, convened on the initiative of Alexei Mikhailovich, the irreversibility of church reforms was confirmed. For the appropriate weight, the Eastern patriarchs were invited to it: in Moscow they were counting on the arrival of Constantinople and Jerusalem. But they avoided the visit, and had to be content with little - the Patriarch of Alexandria and the same Patriarch of Antioch. The Greek representatives were given emphatic decisive importance. They provided invaluable assistance to Alexey and his Ukrainian team in discrediting the old rite.

The spread of the latter was associated with the separation from Constantinople, which was conquered by the Turks, after which the transition to two-fingered fingers occurred. The idea was held: once upon a time (in the bright times of Kievan Rus) Moscow was quite correct, but then a “dark darkness” occurred, and only now, under Alexei Mikhailovich, Orthodoxy triumphs. It is easy to guess that the flip side of such a concept should be the recognition of the former church as heretical.

Our church was forced into a new religious format: from anathematizing old rituals to requiring priests to dress in Greek fashion. All this made such a grave impression that even Romanov historians noted the tactlessness of what was happening. In an effort to minimize the negative, they emphasized that excessive severity could only become the work of someone else, i.e. the Greeks who directed the course of the cathedral. Thus, Ukrainian church leaders who seemed to find themselves in the shadows were removed from criticism.

Do not reproach with treason

Peter's passion for foreign affairs has never been a secret, but at the same time, much less is known about his deep affection for Little Russia, which is almost completely obscured by the European theme. The increase in the share of foreigners in the elite changed a lot, but did not at all erode the Ukrainian-Polish spirit.

Peter in every possible way supported the status of Ukraine as a special, privileged territory within Russia, and spent a lot of money on its development. At the expense of the treasury, he erected several fortresses there, purchased weapons for the local army, and exempted them from taxes. The first of the Romanovs visited Kyiv, where he remained almost the entire summer of 1706. However, the successes of the army of Charles XII, which defeated Saxony, Poland and descended on Ukraine, pushed Mazepa to an anti-Russian alliance. But even outright betrayal did not affect the reverent attitude towards the Ukrainian “brothers”, in which Peter followed in the footsteps of his father Alexei Mikhailovich. The Manifesto of March 11, 1710 strictly prohibited the Great Russian people from “insulting the Little Russians, reproaching them with Mazepa’s betrayal,” and the perpetrators faced severe punishment and even the death penalty for impudent insults.

Strange "Russian Party"

The reign of Peter I was fateful not only in terms of socio-economic transformations, but also in terms of the formation of the Russian ruling stratum. The first quarter of the 18th century records its final features. It was then that the formation of two parties was completed in the elites: foreign and “Russian,” as historians of the Romanov school call them.

Visiting foreigners, launched in large numbers by Peter, began to claim a significant role in using the treasury and squeezing the juices out of the population. This circumstance was noted by everyone who has ever become acquainted with the Russian past. However, something else is still surprising: the struggle in the Russian leadership is viewed in the context of the so-called foreign and “Russian” parties.

If everything is very clear regarding the first one, then talking about “Russian” can be a stretch. This is a serious omission of historiography, which did not want to realize that the “Russian” party was actually disguised as a Ukrainian-Polish party. Who really are the Russians in it - is it Feofan Prokopovich with Stefan Yavorsky and a whole scattering of others like them, who completed the destruction of our church? In general, the “Russian” representatives at the top were distinguished by their open disdain for everything Russian in the Moscow sense of the word, and in this hatred they completely aligned themselves with the foreign party.

Love and friendship

Alexander I was known as a passionate polonophile. His long-term mistress was Maria Chetvertinskaya, and his bosom friends - Czartorysky, Kochubey, Zavadovsky, Razumovsky, Troshchinsky - occupied leading ministerial posts, protecting their relatives. The emperor's younger brother, Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich, who became the governor of the Kingdom of Poland, married Grudzinskaya, adoring with her everything Polish. Alexander I himself loved to walk around in a Polish military uniform.

We agree, this is quite strange behavior for the “occupiers”: for example, the British elite, having turned India into a colony, did not parade around London in Indian attire, and Indians were not appointed to the British government. Why did this happen in Russia? Yes, because the same relatives were present in St. Petersburg and Poland. This is also confirmed by the fact that after the War of 1812, the Poles who fought on the side of Napoleon happily enlisted in the Russian army as officers.

Under Nicholas I, Kyiv was practically built: then the “mother of Russian cities” acquired modern features. Nicholas I personally approved an extensive urban development plan, street and bridge projects, visiting Kyiv fifteen times during his reign. No ruler of the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union visited there so often.

The propaganda cliché about the “Russianness” of the elite prevents us from realizing the scale of the Ukrainian-Polish-German governance of Russia. Many representatives of the Ukrainian-Polish-German stratum appeared under Russian surnames: today this confuses even those who study our history. What those bearing Russian and Ukrainian-Polish-German surnames have in common is that the family estates of this nobility (66.2% of the total number of estates) were located in Little Russia and Lithuania, including the Baltic states. The land holdings granted to them in vast Russia were annexed to their ancestral nests.

White Little Russians

1917 - the collapse of the empire led to the elimination of the previous ruling stratum. If you look at who tried to strangle the Soviet republic, the Ukrainian-Polish-German trace is clearly visible. We need to remember the leaders of the White movement, which, as we are assured, has absorbed the true patriots of Russia.

Ancestors of A.V. Kolchak on his father’s side is from the landowners of the Kherson province, who in 1843 received hereditary nobility. The father of the future “supreme ruler” served in the Naval Department, his mother came from a merchant family, her parent was a member of the Odessa City Duma. Kolchak is married to the noblewoman S. Kamenskaya from the Podolsk province; full-fledged Ukrainian family. P.N. Wrangel descends from the house of Tolsburg-Ellistfer, the general’s wife was the maid of honor of the Highest Court O. Ivanenko; their ancestral nests were in Ukraine. N.N. Yudenich - from the Little Russian nobles of the Minsk province; German ancestors of E.K. Miller (commander of the Northern Front during the Civil War) settled in the Vitebsk province; General A.G. Shkuro is a descendant of the Zaporozhye Cossacks. Of the Poltava landowners M.G. Drozdovsky. IN. Kappel comes from a noble family of the Kovno province: on his mother’s side he is Postolsky...

Prison of nations?

However, it was not destined to keep the state on the new anti-Ukrainian platform. This largely happened because the humanities of the 1920s, led by M.N. Pokrovsky, was unable to comprehend the historical path of Russia and ideologically substantiate the new foundation of the power. Pathological fascination with economic schemes and class struggle, as a tribute to Marxist dogma, did not allow us to understand the fate of the Ukrainian topic. The Ukrainian-Polish element in Pokrovsky’s portrayal appeared to be just as affected by “Russian oppression” as all other nationalities!

All curses were addressed to the Russians, who were presented as overseers, by the administration of the prison of nations called Russia. Moreover, Pokrovsky’s Marxist school was unable to oppose anything to the Romanov concept of history. The old professorial cadres attracted by Stalin did everything to rehabilitate pre-revolutionary attitudes. Therefore, those forces that humiliated and plundered our country for centuries were successfully able to maintain their reputation, and therefore a chance to return as masters.

These efforts, which were not long in coming, are associated with the name of N.S. Khrushchev. And with the coming to power of his nominee L.I. Brezhnev, the nomenclature tops of the USSR found themselves at the mercy of the Ukrainian elements. Just look at the composition of the Central Committee, elected by the XXV or XXVI Party Congress: secretaries of regional committees (regardless of geography), ministers, senior officials of the Central Committee and government apparatus. There has not been such a number of Ukrainian personnel in the country, probably, since the end of the 17th - first half of the 18th century, when they appeared in our lands on the wave of church reform...

This topic was voiced by me in the video:

Pereyaslavl Rada. “Forever with Moscow, forever with the Russian people.” Artist M. Khmelko, 1951.

Towards unity with the West

It is impossible to understand the intricacies of the medieval era without clarifying the role of Byzantium. Let us recall that in 1261 the crusaders were expelled from Constantinople, and the Palaiologos family came to power, founding a new dynasty. They gained the throne only thanks to the support of the Genoese, who dreamed of ousting the Venetians from the region. From then on, they ruled the Black Sea for almost two hundred years. The income of the emperors and Genoese from trade and collection of customs duties was distributed as one to seven, i.e. a coin to the city, and seven to Genoa.

In such conditions, one could only dream of economic or military power. Constantinople was left to focus on the spiritual or something similar, which became the main craft of Byzantium under the Palaiologos. The intellectual elite of this period concentrated on justifying unity with the West. The ancient world was used as a tool. With its help, they demonstrated the common origin and cultural identity of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Thus, the foundation was laid for a union with the papacy, of which the Palaiologi were ardent adherents.

However, such historical quests caused heartburn in the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Orthodox leaders did not share ancient hobbies, as they were contrary to the Christian spirit. Such critics were not welcome at the imperial court, and therefore opposition to Latinism matured in the monasteries. The Athonite fathers, in contrast to the promoted antiquity, relied on contemporary state formations spread across the northern expanses, paying special attention to the Moscow principality.

The idea of ​​the Athonite party was the following: to unite under its spiritual leadership a vast territory from southwestern Rus', Lithuania to the eastern principalities led by Moscow. Of course, this is not easy to implement, and therefore an ideal past was constructed to help, when everyone was united. The historical image of a certain “All Rus'” emerged as an example of the desired future for all the peoples living here, and the role of the “cradle mother” was entrusted to Kyiv. Developing this concept, they started talking about Little and Great Rus': Little (Kievan) is the indigenous Rus', and everything else that grew out of it is Great.

Let us note that the Athonite authors were not distinguished by originality: they simply copied the work of those who improvised with antiquity and were already operating with might and main on the image of Ancient (pagan) Greece. Little (indigenous) Greece also appeared there, which then transformed into Great Greece. Orthodoxy in its Greek version was declared to be the only binding element of “all Rus'”: it was this, and not the pagan heritage, that should become the banner around which to rally. If we call a spade a spade, then Athonite technologists planned, on the one hand, to “feed” vast territories for their own benefit, and on the other, to sell the united religious asset in the form of “barbarian territories” to the same Rome in payment for supporting Byzantium in the fight against infidels. Hence the persistence with which the metropolitans appointed by Constantinople pursued the religious unity of “all Rus'.”

According to the laws of commerce

For people of the 15th–16th centuries, there was no division into the political and religious spheres. The word “politics” itself came into use only on the eve of the 18th century. The role of an instrument in achieving essentially political goals was performed by the church. The strengthening of the Lithuanian-Polish “clan” directly depended on strong positions in the church sphere.

The alpha and omega of pro-Romanov scientists (Karamzin, Ustryalov, Pogodin) is that the Polish-Ukrainian cadres dissolved in the public environment - religiously united with them. They cannot admit that the Church of Muscovy and the Church in Lithuania and Ukraine are two big differences.

Our church, unlike the Uniate one, tried to adhere to two unshakable principles.

First, a church cannot be a business structure, which means it cannot conduct trade and property transactions.

Secondly, given the multinational structure of the country, it must be adapted to other beliefs.

This made it possible to maintain balanced relations with the same widespread Islam. It was precisely this kind of religiosity that the great holy ascetic Sergius of Radonezh advocated. But such a church atmosphere was alien to Lithuania and Ukraine with its Catholic trends. A church that was not immersed in commerce was considered second-class there, and loyalty to Muslims was perceived as something beyond the pale.

Instead of zemstvo cathedrals

On January 8, 1654, the Pereyaslav Treaty on the annexation of Ukraine to Russia was concluded. For Ukrainian-Polish immigrants who rallied around the Romanovs, this was an epoch-making event. The opportunity arose to finally explain to everyone why they were in charge here. If previously state legitimation, including Mikhail Fedorovich, was based on zemstvo councils, which were considered a natural source of power, now Little Russia is replacing this institution.

It is no coincidence that since its annexation in 1654, the practice of convening zemstvo councils has ceased. There is no longer a need for them, since the Romanov power was declared to be a continuation of the true principles personified by Ukraine, which outweighs the representation of lands clouded by Tatar impurities; the center of gravity of state building shifted. Therefore, the possession of Ukraine pursued not so much economic goals, as is traditionally believed, but rather extremely important ideological meanings. From that time on, the war with Poland turned, by and large, into a struggle for Ukraine.

Beneficiaries of the reform

At the so-called Great Council of 1666–1667, convened on the initiative of Alexei Mikhailovich, the irreversibility of church reforms was confirmed. For the appropriate weight, the Eastern patriarchs were invited to it: in Moscow they were counting on the arrival of Constantinople and Jerusalem. But they avoided the visit, and had to be content with little - the Patriarch of Alexandria and the same Patriarch of Antioch. The Greek representatives were given emphatic decisive importance. They provided invaluable assistance to Alexey and his Ukrainian team in discrediting the old rite.

The spread of the latter was associated with the separation from Constantinople, which was conquered by the Turks, after which the transition to two-fingered fingers occurred. The idea was held: once upon a time (in the bright times of Kievan Rus) Moscow was quite correct, but then a “dark darkness” occurred, and only now, under Alexei Mikhailovich, Orthodoxy triumphs. It is easy to guess that the flip side of such a concept should be the recognition of the former church as heretical.

Our church was forced into a new religious format: from anathematizing old rituals to requiring priests to dress in Greek fashion. All this made such a grave impression that even Romanov historians noted the tactlessness of what was happening. In an effort to minimize the negative, they emphasized that excessive severity could only become the work of someone else, i.e. the Greeks who directed the course of the cathedral. Thus, Ukrainian church leaders who seemed to find themselves in the shadows were removed from criticism.

Do not reproach with treason

Peter's passion for foreign affairs has never been a secret, but at the same time, much less is known about his deep affection for Little Russia, which is almost completely obscured by the European theme. The increase in the share of foreigners in the elite changed a lot, but did not at all erode the Ukrainian-Polish spirit.

Peter in every possible way supported the status of Ukraine as a special, privileged territory within Russia, and spent a lot of money on its development. At the expense of the treasury, he erected several fortresses there, purchased weapons for the local army, and exempted them from taxes. The first of the Romanovs visited Kyiv, where he remained almost the entire summer of 1706.

However, the successes of the army of Charles XII, which defeated Saxony, Poland and descended on Ukraine, pushed Mazepa to an anti-Russian alliance. But even outright betrayal did not affect the reverent attitude towards the Ukrainian “brothers”, in which Peter followed in the footsteps of his father Alexei Mikhailovich. The Manifesto of March 11, 1710 strictly prohibited the Great Russian people from “insulting the Little Russians, reproaching them with Mazepa’s betrayal,” and the perpetrators faced severe punishment and even the death penalty for impudent insults.

Strange "Russian Party"

The reign of Peter I was fateful not only in terms of socio-economic transformations, but also in terms of the formation of the Russian ruling stratum. The first quarter of the 18th century records its final features. It was then that the formation of two parties was completed in the elites: foreign and “Russian,” as historians of the Romanov school call them.

Visiting foreigners, launched in large numbers by Peter, began to claim a significant role in using the treasury and squeezing the juices out of the population. This circumstance was noted by everyone who has ever become acquainted with the Russian past. However, something else is still surprising: the struggle in the Russian leadership is viewed in the context of the so-called foreign and “Russian” parties.

If everything is very clear regarding the first one, then talking about “Russian” can be a stretch. This is a serious omission of historiography, which did not want to realize that the “Russian” party was actually disguised as a Ukrainian-Polish party. Who really are the Russians in it - is it Feofan Prokopovich with Stefan Yavorsky and a whole scattering of others like them, who completed the destruction of our church? In general, the “Russian” representatives at the top were distinguished by their open disdain for everything Russian in the Moscow sense of the word, and in this hatred they completely aligned themselves with the foreign party.

Love and friendship

Alexander I was known as a passionate polonophile. His long-term mistress was Maria Chetvertinskaya, and his bosom friends - Czartorysky, Kochubey, Zavadovsky, Razumovsky, Troshchinsky - occupied leading ministerial posts, protecting their relatives. The emperor's younger brother, Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich, who became the governor of the Kingdom of Poland, married Grudzinskaya, adoring with her everything Polish. Alexander I himself loved to walk around in a Polish military uniform.

We agree, this is quite strange behavior for the “occupiers”: for example, the British elite, having turned India into a colony, did not parade around London in Indian attire, and Indians were not appointed to the British government. Why did this happen in Russia?

Yes, because the same relatives were present in St. Petersburg and Poland. This is also confirmed by the fact that after the War of 1812, the Poles who fought on the side of Napoleon happily enlisted in the Russian army as officers.

Under Nicholas I, Kyiv was practically built: then the “mother of Russian cities” acquired modern features. Nicholas I personally approved an extensive urban development plan, street and bridge projects, visiting Kyiv fifteen times during his reign. No ruler of the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union visited there so often.

The propaganda cliché about the “Russianness” of the elite prevents us from realizing the scale of the Ukrainian-Polish-German governance of Russia. Many representatives of the Ukrainian-Polish-German stratum appeared under Russian surnames: today this confuses even those who study our history. What those bearing Russian and Ukrainian-Polish-German surnames have in common is that the family estates of this nobility (66.2% of the total number of estates) were located in Little Russia and Lithuania, including the Baltic states. The land holdings granted to them in vast Russia were annexed to their ancestral nests.

White Little Russians

1917 - the collapse of the empire led to the elimination of the previous ruling stratum. If you look at who tried to strangle the Soviet republic, the Ukrainian-Polish-German trace is clearly visible. We need to remember the leaders of the White movement, which, as we are assured, has absorbed the true patriots of Russia.

Ancestors of A.V. Kolchak on his father’s side is from the landowners of the Kherson province, who in 1843 received hereditary nobility. The father of the future “supreme ruler” served in the Naval Department, his mother came from a merchant family, her parent was a member of the Odessa City Duma. Kolchak is married to the noblewoman S. Kamenskaya from the Podolsk province; full-fledged Ukrainian family. P.N. Wrangel descends from the house of Tolsburg-Ellistfer, the general’s wife was the maid of honor of the Highest Court O. Ivanenko; their ancestral nests were in Ukraine. N.N. Yudenich - from the Little Russian nobles of the Minsk province; German ancestors of E.K. Miller (commander of the Northern Front during the Civil War) settled in the Vitebsk province; General A.G. Shkuro is a descendant of the Zaporozhye Cossacks. Of the Poltava landowners M.G. Drozdovsky. IN. Kappel comes from a noble family of the Kovno province: on his mother’s side he is Postolsky...

Prison of nations?

However, it was not destined to keep the state on the new anti-Ukrainian platform. This largely happened because the humanities of the 1920s, led by M.N. Pokrovsky, was unable to comprehend the historical path of Russia and ideologically substantiate the new foundation of the power. Pathological fascination with economic schemes and class struggle, as a tribute to Marxist dogma, did not allow us to understand the fate of the Ukrainian topic. The Ukrainian-Polish element in Pokrovsky’s portrayal appeared to be just as affected by “Russian oppression” as all other nationalities!

All curses were addressed to the Russians, who were presented as overseers, by the administration of the prison of nations called Russia. Moreover, Pokrovsky’s Marxist school was unable to oppose anything to the Romanov concept of history. The old professorial cadres attracted by Stalin did everything to rehabilitate pre-revolutionary attitudes. Therefore, those forces that humiliated and plundered our country for centuries were successfully able to maintain their reputation, and therefore a chance to return as masters.

These efforts, which were not long in coming, are associated with the name of N.S. Khrushchev. And with the coming to power of his nominee L.I. Brezhnev, the nomenclature tops of the USSR found themselves at the mercy of the Ukrainian elements. Just look at the composition of the Central Committee, elected by the XXV or XXVI Party Congress: secretaries of regional committees (regardless of geography), ministers, senior officials of the Central Committee and government apparatus.

There has not been such a number of Ukrainian personnel in the country, probably, since the end of the 17th - first half of the 18th century, when they appeared in our lands on the wave of church reform...

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