This for the vaunted Moscow Mongrel who was “trained” during the Cold War Years of Communism’s fake news propaganda. This is why he talks like a former Cold Warrior when he unabashedly propagandizes such as:
“According to Putin, the modern-day Ukraine occupies historically Russian lands, and is an “anti-Russia project” created by external forces since the seventeenth century, and of administrative and political decisions made during the Soviet Union.”- Wikipedia
I remember when employed by the State in the 1990’s. During an interview with a Ukrainian family the father told me, and I quote, “We’re from Kiev, not like those hillbillies from Moscow!”
You think I’m kidding?
Originally, the name Rus’ (Cyrillic: Русь) referred to the people,regions, and medieval principalities (9th to 12th centuries) within the territory of the Kievan Rus’. Today its territory is distributed among Belarus, Ukraine, Eastern Poland, and the European section of Russia. The term Россия (Rossiya), comes from the Byzantine Greek designation of the Rus’, Ρωσσία Rossía—related to both Modern Greek: Ρως, romanized: Ros, lit. ‘Rus”, and Ρωσία (Rosía, “Russia”, pronounced [roˈsia]). -wikipedia.
Put in another way: The Principality of Moscow or Grand Duchy of Moscow (Russian: Великое княжество Московское, romanized: Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye), also known simply as Muscovy (from the Latin Moscovia), was a principality of the Late Middle Ages centered on Moscow. It eventually evolved into the Tsardom of Russia in the early modern period. -wikipedia
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