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There are many controversial moments in history, there are different theories and statements. It is not always clear what facts they are based on, especially since some part of the information is always hidden from the majority of society. To understand what really happened, people study different sources. You cannot say with absolute certainty that any one is true, but in order to independently reflect on these topics, you need to find as much information as possible. Oles Buzina's book "The Secret History of Ukraine-Rus" reflects a different view of the history of Ukraine, interprets known facts in a different way and presents readers with previously unknown ones.

The author talks about the formation of the Ukrainian people, without embellishing reality. Historically important personalities are not just figures, but living people with their own advantages and disadvantages. And sometimes the struggle was fought not only because of different political views, the reasons could be quite banal, such as wounded pride or a thirst for power and money.

Oles Buzina gives an assessment of all events, both positive and negative, expressing what he thinks, based on known documents. There are interesting, there are incredibly cruel pages that they tried not to cover before. The book can evoke different emotions, because, to some extent, it destroys the foundations of Ukrainian history, makes you look deeper. But it is worth reading about it to realize what could have been differently, and to form your own opinion about the book.

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Appearing on the political arena, the people certainly invent a brilliant pedigree. No one cares about its authenticity. The main thing is crackling, fireworks and fascination.

The ancient Swedes derived themselves directly from the god Odin. The Poles of the 13th century, when only the lazy did not beat them, attributed to their ancestors the victory over Alexander the Great. The author of The Tale of Igor's Campaign considered the Russians to be the grandchildren of Dazhdbog. As for the Ukrainians, they, according to the majority of our historians, always existed. This theory is called "autochthonous" - translated from the obscure ancient Greek "autochthon" - "self-generated", "root". That is, according to the logic of its followers, a certain Pithecanthropus, having hatched from a monkey in Africa, came to the banks of the Dnieper and then slowly reborn into a Ukrainian, from whom Russians, Belarusians and other peoples descended, up to the Indians.

“This scheme was especially zealously supported by the “intellectuals” of the early 90s, who argued about world problems in Kyiv on Maidan Nezalezhnosti. She exalted them in her own eyes, despite the torn pants, week-long stubble, and no salary.

It seems to me that you can do nothing at all with such a theory: a talented Pithecanthropus ancestor has already done everything for you. And you lie on the couch, spit on the floor and contemptuously watch how someone on TV receives a Nobel Prize or a strategic bomber flies on a safari to Iraq.

If you take a look at the map of modern Ukraine, it turns out that it is full of incomprehensible names. Below, Crimea dangles like a big pear, a gift from the generous uncle Khrushchev. From north to south, rivers flow with names that are unintelligible to the Slavic ear - the Danube, the Dniester, the Don and the Donets. To the west rises the wooded ridge of the Carpathians with the mysterious Hoverla, where President Yushchenko liked to run for inspiration. In the east beyond the Kuban is the Caucasus, where, as in the time of Lermontov, "an evil Chechen crawls ashore, sharpens his dagger." And only in the north are understandable words - Pripyat, Stokhod, Goryn - small quiet rivers, making their way through the dull Polesie. It turns out that non-Slavic peoples once lived in the south and west of Ukraine?

Yes, that's exactly what happens, gentlemen! Whether you like it or not, we are also not the first on this earth. And we, like the Americans, had our Indians. They were just called differently. Not Mohicans and Hurons, but Sarmatians, Cumans and Tatars. And only having "digested" them, we, as it is sung in our anthem, "were in awe of our supporters."

Writing among the Slavs appeared in the 9th century. It was invented by Cyril and Methodius, adapting the Greek alphabet for local needs. Since then, the Slavs began to keep their own chronicles. But the previous millennium is also documented in detail by the Romans and Byzantines. Faced with the barbarian world, they meticulously noted everything that fell into the sphere of their interests.

From the Roman chronicles at the turn of the new era, we know that the Dacian tribe of Carps lived in the Carpathians. Their modern closest relatives are the current Albanians. "Carpathians" - so in their language the mountains were called.

Ukraine itself was called Sarmatia, after the name of the most numerous and warlike of the tribes that lived here. Where, in fifteen hundred years, Taras Bulba and his sons will ride across the Wild Field, detachments of heavily armed Sarmatian horsemen in strong scaly shells roamed. Judging by the language, the Sarmatians were Iranians. It was they who gave the name to the Ukrainian rivers - Don, Donets and Danube. "Don" in Iranian means "water".

At the turn of our era, the Sarmatians raged throughout the thousand-mile expanse of the Black Sea steppes - from the Caucasus to the border of the Roman Empire, which ran along the Danube. The Romans called them "female-ruled" because of the strong remnants of matriarchy and the important role of women who participated in battles on an equal basis with men.

In the north, the Sarmatians bordered on the Slavs. Their strange political system struck our ancestors, remaining in fairy tales with stories about the Serpent and Baba Yaga, who lived not in a forest hut on chicken legs, but in a dungeon on the shore, in a hot seaside country of the "Maiden Kingdom", where severed "Russian heads stick out on the stamens." The Sarmatian onslaught, which lasted for several centuries, did not allow the Slavs to get out of the forest thickets. But soon they cheered up so much that they earned the glory of first-class thugs.

In the 1st century A.D. e. The Slavs under the name of the Wends were described by the Roman historian Tacitus. In the book On the Origin of the Germans, he also devoted several lines to them. According to him, the Wends lived east of the Vistula between the Germans and the Sarmatians. We do not like to quote Tacitus in full. He paints a very unattractive picture of the Slavic idyll: “Untidiness among all, idleness and inertia among the nobility. Due to mixed marriages, their appearance becomes more and more ugly, and they acquire the features of the Sarmatians. The Wends adopted many of their customs, for they roam the forests and mountains for the sake of robbery ... They build houses for themselves, wear shields and move on foot, and, moreover, with great speed. All this separates them from the Sarmatians, who spend their whole lives in a wagon and on a horse.” The fact that the Wends are precisely the Slavs is beyond doubt. The Germans still call the Slavs "Wends".

The gradual mixing of the Slavs with the Sarmatians is also confirmed. Having fought, they began to willingly trade and marry. Within the framework of the so-called Chernyakhov culture of the 3rd-4th centuries around the Dnieper, which developed during the time of the Gothic rule, the long-term coexistence of the steppe Iranians with the Slavic farmers can be traced. The Slavs burned their dead. The Iranians practiced corpses. Moreover, sometimes they also dismembered the dead man into parts so that he would not “come to life” and find his way home - archaeologists write about such skeletons in their reports: “ritually dismembered”. So, thousands of graves were discovered, looking at which scientists state: the husband was buried according to the Slavic custom, and the wife - according to the Sarmatian. Or vice versa.

The Sarmatian admixture has greatly affected the blood of today's Ukrainians - both in appearance, and in the stubbornness of women (remnants of matriarchy!), And even in such a word borrowed from the steppes as "pants". Doing without this valuable item of clothing when riding, you know, is problematic - you will wipe your legs to the blood on the sweaty horse flanks. However, be that as it may, the Slavs won linguistically, having borrowed from their southern neighbors everything that lay badly. There were many. They were irresistible.

By the 6th century, they multiplied so much that the Gothic historian Jordan, for the sake of scientific accuracy, divided them into two gigantic branches: “Surrounded by rivers lies Dacia, fortified, like crowns, by the steep Alps. To the left of them, in vast expanses, lives a numerous tribe of Wends. Although now their names change depending on different clans and places of residence, they are mostly called Slavs and Ants. Slavs live from the city of Novietun and the lake called Mursian, up to Danastra and north to the Vistula: swamps and forests replace cities for them. Antes, the most powerful of them, where the Pontic Sea makes an arc, stretching from Danastre to Danapra itself.

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Title: The Secret History of Ukraine-Rus

About the book "The Secret History of Ukraine-Rus" by Oles Buzina

As the people say: “It’s either good about the dead, or nothing at all.” It's hard to argue with this. Therefore, today we will talk about the late author of the book "The Secret History of Ukraine-Rus" only in a good tone. Oles Buzina is an odious writer and journalist of modern Ukraine. The authorities made repeated attempts to impose censorship restrictions against him. We have to admit, it was for what. According to the Ukrainian national expert commission on the protection of public morality, this person discredited prominent Ukrainian figures, choosing all the most shameful in Ukrainian history. Is it so? We are not experts, but the reader will be able to form his opinion when he starts reading one of the author's disgraced and sensational books, The Secret History of Ukraine-Rus.

The work is written in a defiant and attention-grabbing style in which Oles Buzina loved to present himself to the public.

Modern writers are so fond of exposing well-known historical facts! Whistleblowers ruthlessly cut the story familiar to us from the school bench and present it in a new way. Sometimes it turns out very interesting. Touches to the core and makes you think. The work "The Secret History of Ukraine-Rus" is from this category of literature. It's just too harshly written. Let's start reading!

The name itself hints at the one who will be the first to fall under the “distribution”. Ukrainian politician and historian Grushevsky will receive in full. The whole final chapter will smash all the efforts of Grushevsky to smithereens, leaving no stone unturned from his fundamental work.

The remaining chapters of the book are best not read for the faint of heart and specialists in the field of history. If for ordinary people it will be exciting and funny, then for ardent connoisseurs it will be like death. What will be discussed in the chapters can be judged by their titles. "Scythians - ghouls and drug addicts", "Yaroslav the Wise - the patron of killers", "How the Galicians destroyed Kievan Rus", "Roman - the Ripper Prince", "Deserter Khmelnitsky" and in the same spirit. Interested?

Yes, Oles Buzina was not afraid to make enemies. Perhaps it was for his views and the truth-womb that he paid with his life. Who knows? Killers don't just get hired. It can be seen strongly someone annoyed from those in power.

Be that as it may, the author left behind a good literary heritage, which contemporaries read with pleasure. We are sure that decades later his works will not be forgotten. Moreover, the writer bases his judgments on real historical sources, such as the Chronicle of the Seer and others, previously hushed up for some reason. Clearly there was something to hide...

"The Secret History of Ukraine-Rus" will brighten up your evening and make you think.

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Secret history of Ukraine-Rus
Oles Buzina

O. Buzina's book is the first look at the Ukrainian past in fifteen years of independence from the point of view of fact, not myth. Known for his radical assessments, the author of "Ghoul Taras Shevchenko" remained true to himself. Significant historical figures appear in his new book not as icons, but as living people. The very same story - such as it really was - full of cruelty and betrayal, but terribly interesting. What was hidden by the archives and self-censorship of professional historians is now becoming the property of the general reader.

Oles Buzina

Secret history of Ukraine-Rus

Ukraine is a country of Cossacks located between Lesser Tartary, Poland and Muscovy…

Bad management has ruined here the good that nature tried to give people.

People without a way, without honor and honor,

Without truth in the winds of wild ancestors,

Ty, sho postav z insane odvagi

Hirkih p "yanitsa and great roses!

Panteleimon Kulish

The true pedigree of Ukrainians

Appearing_in_the_political_arena,_the_people_invent_a_brilliant_pedigree._No_one_cares_about_its_reliability.

The ancient Swedes derived themselves directly from the god Odin. The Poles of the 13th century, when only the lazy did not beat them, attributed to their ancestors the victory over Alexander the Great. The Jews came up with a fairy tale about their God's chosen people. As for the Ukrainians, they, according to the majority of our historians, always existed. This theory is called "autochthonous" - translated from the obscure ancient Greek "autochthon" - "self-generated", "root". That is, according to the logic of its followers, a certain Pithecanthropus, hatched from a monkey in Africa, came to the banks of the Dnieper, and then slowly reborn into a Ukrainian, from whom Russians, Belarusians and other peoples descended, up to the Indians.

This scheme was especially zealously supported by the "intellectuals" of the early 90s, who argued about world problems in Kyiv on Maidan Nezalezhnosti. She exalted them in her own eyes, despite the torn pants, week-long stubble, and no salary.

It seems to me that you can do nothing at all with such a theory: a talented Pithecanthropus ancestor has already done everything for you. And you lie on the couch, spit on the floor and contemptuously watch how someone on TV receives a Nobel Prize or a strategic bomber flies on a safari to Iraq.

If you take a look at the map of modern Ukraine, it turns out that it is full of incomprehensible names. Below, Crimea dangles like a big pear, a gift from the generous uncle Khrushchev. From north to south, rivers flow with names that are unintelligible to the Slavic ear - the Danube, the Dniester, the Don and the Donets. To the west rises the wooded ridge of the Carpathians with the mysterious Hoverla, where President Yushchenko liked to run for inspiration. In the east, beyond the Kuban, is the Caucasus, where, as in the time of Lermontov, "an evil Chechen crawls ashore, sharpens his dagger." And only in the north are understandable words - Pripyat, Stokhod, Goryn - small quiet rivers, making their way through the dull Polesie. It turns out that non-Slavic peoples once lived in the south and west of Ukraine?

Yes, that's exactly what happens, gentlemen! Whether you like it or not, we are also not the first on this earth. And we, like the Americans, had our Indians. They were just called differently. Not Mohicans and Hurons, but Sarmatians, Cumans and Tatars. And only having "digested" them, we, as it is sung in our anthem, "were in awe of our supporters."

Writing among the Slavs appeared in the 9th century. It was invented by Cyril and Methodius, adapting the Greek alphabet for local needs. Since then, the Slavs began to keep their own chronicles. But the previous millennium is also documented in detail by the Romans and Byzantines. Faced with the barbarian world, they meticulously noted everything that fell into the sphere of their interests.

From the Roman chronicles at the turn of the new era, we know that the Dacian tribe of Carps lived in the Carpathians. Their modern closest relatives are the current Albanians. "Carpathians" - so in their language the mountains were called.

Ukraine itself was called Sarmatia, after the name of the most numerous and warlike of the tribes that lived here. Where, in a thousand and a half years, Taras Bulba and his sons would ride across the Wild Field, detachments of heavily armed Sarmatian horsemen in strong scaly shells roamed. Judging by the language, the Sarmatians were Iranians. It was they who gave the name to the Ukrainian rivers - Don, Donets and Danube. "Don" in Iranian means "water".

At the turn of our era, the Sarmatians raged throughout the thousand-mile expanse of the Black Sea steppes - from the Caucasus to the border of the Roman Empire, which ran along the Danube. The Romans called them "female-ruled" because of the strong remnants of matriarchy and the important role of women who participated in battles on an equal basis with men.

In the north, the Sarmatians bordered on the Slavs. Their strange political system struck our ancestors, remaining in fairy tales with stories about the Serpent and Baba Yaga, who lived not in a forest hut on chicken legs, as in most of these stories, but in a dungeon on the coast, in a hot seaside country of the "Maiden Kingdom", where severed "Russian little heads stick out on stamens." The Sarmatian onslaught, which lasted for several centuries, did not allow the Slavs to get out of the forest thickets. But soon they cheered up so much that they earned the glory of first-class thugs.

In the 1st century A.D. The Slavs under the name of the Wends were described by the Roman historian Tacitus. In the book On the Origin of the Germans, he also devoted several lines to them. According to him, the Wends lived east of the Vistula between the Germans and the Sarmatians. We do not like to quote Tacitus in full. He paints a very unattractive picture of the Slavic idyll: “Untidiness among all, idleness and inertness among the nobility. Due to mixed marriages, their appearance becomes more and more ugly, and they acquire the features of the Sarmatians. The Wends adopted many of their customs, for they roam the forests and mountains for the sake of robbery ... They build houses for themselves, wear shields and move on foot, and, moreover, with great speed. All this separates them from the Sarmatians, who spend their whole lives in a wagon and on a horse.” The fact that the Wends are precisely the Slavs is undoubted. The Germans still call the Slavs "Wends".

The gradual mixing of the Slavs with the Sarmatians is also confirmed. Having fought, they began to willingly trade and marry. Within the framework of the so-called Chernyakhov culture of the 3rd-4th centuries around the Dnieper, which developed during the time of the Gothic rule, the long-term coexistence of the steppe Iranians with the Slavic farmers can be traced. The Slavs burned their dead. The Iranians practiced corpses. And sometimes they also dismembered the dead man into parts so that he would not “come to life” and find his way home - archaeologists write about such skeletons in their reports: “ritually dismembered”. So, thousands of graves were discovered, looking at which, scientists state: the husband was buried according to the Slavic custom, and the wife - according to the Sarmatian. Or vice versa.

Sarmatian admixture greatly affected the blood of today's Ukrainians - both in appearance, and in the stubbornness of women (remnants of matriarchy!) And even in such a word borrowed from the steppes as "pants". Doing without this valuable item of clothing when riding, you know, is problematic - you will wipe your legs to the blood on the sweaty horse flanks. However, be that as it may, the Slavs won linguistically, having borrowed from their southern neighbors everything that lay badly. There were many. They were irresistible.

By the 6th century, our ancestors had multiplied so much that the Gothic historian Jordan, for the sake of scientific accuracy, divided them into two giant branches: “Surrounded by rivers lies Dacia, fortified, like crowns, by the steep Alps. To the left of them, in vast expanses, lives a numerous tribe of Wends. Although now their names change depending on different clans and places of residence, they are mostly called Slavs and Antes. Slavs live from the city of Novietun and the lake called Mursian, up to Danastra and north to the Vistula: swamps and forests replace cities for them. Antes, the most powerful of them, where the Pontic Sea makes an arc, stretching from Danastre to Danapra itself.

These guys had a terrible reputation. It's more expensive to get in touch with them. When patriotic historians undertake to praise the peaceful Slavic disposition, comparing it with a "pigeon", they are lying. The Byzantines of the 6th century, who observed the flight of these pigeons with their own eyes, write something completely different. “In the third year after the death of Emperor Justin,” states the author of “Church History” John of Ephesus, “the cursed people of the Slavs moved, which passed through all of Hellas ... He took many cities, fortresses; he burned, plundered and conquered the country, sat down in it imperiously and without fear, as in his own, and for four years, while the emperor was busy with the Persian war and sent his troops to the East, the whole country was given to the mercy of the Slavs. They devastate, burn and rob... They have become rich, have gold and silver, herds of horses and many weapons. They learned to wage war better than the Romans…”

Procopius of Caesarea, secretary of the Byzantine commander Belisarius, left a colorful description of the Slavic army. These lads entered the battle naked to the waist, only with shields and spears. The lack of armor, at first glance, gave odds to the enemies. It wasn't there! Half-naked bands of Slavs maneuvered perfectly, practicing insidious ambush attacks. The Byzantines hired soldiers, paid for their every step and valued their professionals very much. The Slavs, on the other hand, went to the Balkans, as if for a salary delayed for millennia of excommunication from civilization.

Soon they flooded all of Central and Southern Europe. In the west, the foothills of the Alps and the Spree River, where Berlin is now, became their border, and in the south - the warm resort Adriatic coast. “For the sins of our Antes and Slavs rage everywhere,” the same poor Jordan melancholy remarked, hinting that there are no cures for this disease and are not expected in the near future. Drawing our ancestors as harmless good-natured people who danced in forest glades and jumped over the fire on Kupala night, domestic historians strongly sin against the truth. “Not others are our land, but we are used to owning someone else's,” said the Slavic leader Davrit, according to the Byzantine Menander Protector.

Everything would be fine, do not adore the Slavic princes to fight among themselves. Having captured half of Europe, they did not bother to create a single state and merrily lived on the loot, harassing each other in internecine skirmishes.

Payback followed immediately. Gradually, the western tribes of the Slavs fell under the influence of the empire of Charlemagne, and the eastern ones began to pay tribute to Khazaria, a predatory trading state on the Volga.

And then the Vikings appeared - those very stubborn fellows who mastered the path "from the Varangians to the Greeks." The state of the Eastern Slavs was without them. But the Varangians were the first to bring the idea of ​​an empire - a superpower that soldered all these Drevlyans, Polyans and Krivichi to mighty Rus' from the Carpathians in the West to the upper reaches of the Volga in the East. They also gave the name - Rusichi, Rusyns, Russians - that was the name of the ancestors of the modern East Slavic peoples until the 17th century.

By origin, the Vikings were Swedes. They called their squads, who hunted on the East Slavic rivers, "rots" - "rowers". It was really rare to sail here under a sail - especially against the current. The locals, out of the habit of all natives to distort foreign words, transformed "rots" into "Rus", and, recognizing the power of the Varangians, began to call themselves by this name - in the same way, the Gauls adopted the name of the French, merging with the Germanic tribe of the Franks that subjugated them.

To determine the boundaries of an ethnos, there is a simple principle based on the opposition of "friends and foes." Every Frenchman knows that he is not a German, not an Englishman or a Spaniard, although he does not even think about the reasons for this difference. And every Ukrainian is sure that he is neither a Pole nor a Tatar.

Before the Mongol invasion, all the Eastern Slavs were “their own” for each other, despite numerous princely civil strife. All of them were ruled by the princes of the new Varangian Rurik dynasty. All professed Orthodoxy with strong remnants of paganism. Everyone sang the same epics of the Kyiv cycle about Ilya Muromets and Dobryn Nikitich.

In listing the princes, the author of The Tale of Igor's Campaign addresses Vsevolod the Great Nest of Suzdal, Vseslav of Polotsk, Glebovichi of Ryazan, and Yaroslav Osmomysl of Galicia. He calls on all of them to stand up for the Russian land, by which he understood both the Kiev region and the distant Suzdal region with little Moscow barely hatching.

And it was not just an ideological declaration! In 1223, the son of Vsevolod the Great Nest, Yuri, to help the princes of Chernigov, Kyiv and Galicia, who set off against the Mongols, sent a detachment led by his vassal, the Rostov prince. Yes, and the same Mstislav the Udaly, starting his career in far northern Novgorod, calmly moved to reign south - to Galich. And the local population at the same time did not at all consider him a “Muscovite”.

Now, when we, Ukrainians, are being taken out almost “from Adam”, when, following the “History of Ukraine-Rus”, they are ready to write the history of “Ukraine-Sarmatia”, “Ukraine-Scythia” and, probably, “Ukraine-Vandalia”, they forget that on top of ancient Kiev, burned in 1240 by the Mongols of Batu, lies a thick layer of ash. “Most of the people of Russia,” writes Giovanni del Plano Carpini, who visited these places after the defeat, “are killed or taken prisoner.” There are almost no descendants of the Kyivans of that time - until the middle of the 16th century, the abyss of political emptiness yawns. No, Ukraine is not Rus'! It differs from it in the same way that France differs from Gaul, and modern Italy from the Roman Empire. Or like a Budenovsky stallion from the Don. Of course, a descendant in a straight line - but how much fresh blood has been added ...

The devastated Kyiv was picked up by the Lithuanians. Historians dispute the date. They mention some kind of battle on the Irpen River, either in 1320, or in 1321, after which the Lithuanian prince Gediminas allegedly took possession of this piece of Rus'. A decade earlier, later - God knows. Something else is known for sure - the offspring of the successful pagan Gediminas, who made human sacrifices in the forests, multiplied unusually on our lands, giving rise to many princely families - Czartorysky, Zbarazhsky, Koretsky, Ruzhinsky. The Grand Duke of Lithuania appointed his relatives here as appanage princes. They dragged warriors from the Lithuanian swamps who married local girls and converted to Orthodoxy. The grandchildren of all these vagabonds considered themselves already local and, it happened, fought against the central government as real separatists.