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==Vladimir Putin explained to Tucker Carlson the origin of the Ukrainian state==

==Vladimir Putin explained to Tucker Carlson the origin of the Ukrainian state==

In his interview with Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin explained the origins of the Ukrainian state with the following statements.<ref>https://theduran.com/full-transcript-the-interview-of-president-putin-with-tucker-carlson-video/</ref>

In his interview with [[Tucker Carlson]] on February 8, 2024, Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]] explained the origins of the Ukrainian state with the following statements.<ref>https://theduran.com/full-transcript-the-interview-of-president-putin-with-tucker-carlson-video/</ref>

Vladimir Putin: Let’s look where our relationship with Ukraine started from. Where does Ukraine come from?

'''Vladimir Putin:''' Let’s look where our relationship with Ukraine started from. Where does Ukraine come from?

The Russian state started to exist as a centralized state in 862. This is considered to be the year of creation of the Russian state because this year the townspeople of Novgorod (a city in the North-West of the country) invited Rurik, a Varangian prince from Scandinavia, to reign. In 1862, Russia celebrated the 1000th anniversary of its statehood, and in Novgorod there is a memorial dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the country.<ref>[[Sefdom]] was abolished in the [[Russian Empire]] with the Emancipation of Serfdom edict in 1862 to commemorate the founding of the Russian state, one year in advance of [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s [[Emancipation Proclamation]]. Many historians speculate and claim that Lincoln was inspired and motivated to free [[African American]] [[slave]]s by the Czar's actions a year earlier.<br>[[Solzhenitsyn]] citing the 1862 Emancipation edict was a central theme in his struggle against the Soviet authority, which eventually ended in its demise.<br>*[https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/26/archives/solzhenitsyn-i-am-not-a-serf.html Solzhenitsyn: I Am Not a Serf’], ''[[New York Times]]'', August 26, 1973.<br>*[https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/06/archives/solzhenitsyn-says-soviet-is-serfdom.html SOLZHENITSYN SAYS SOVIET IS ‘SERFDOM’], ''New York Times'', April 6, 1974.</ref>

The Russian state started to exist as a centralized state in 862. This is considered to be the year of creation of the Russian state because this year the townspeople of Novgorod (a city in the North-West of the country) invited Rurik, a Varangian prince from Scandinavia, to reign. In 1862, Russia celebrated the 1000th anniversary of its statehood, and in Novgorod there is a memorial dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the country.<ref>[[Sefdom]] was abolished in the [[Russian Empire]] with the Emancipation of Serfdom edict in 1862 to commemorate the founding of the Russian state, one year in advance of [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s [[Emancipation Proclamation]]. Many historians speculate and claim that Lincoln was inspired and motivated to free [[African American]] [[slave]]s by the Czar's actions a year earlier.<br>[[Solzhenitsyn]] citing the 1862 Emancipation edict was a central theme in his struggle against the Soviet authority, which eventually ended in its demise.<br>*[https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/26/archives/solzhenitsyn-i-am-not-a-serf.html Solzhenitsyn: I Am Not a Serf’], ''[[New York Times]]'', August 26, 1973.<br>*[https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/06/archives/solzhenitsyn-says-soviet-is-serfdom.html SOLZHENITSYN SAYS SOVIET IS ‘SERFDOM’], ''New York Times'', April 6, 1974.</ref>

So, the Poles were trying in every possible way to polonize this part of the Russian lands and actually treated it rather harshly, not to say cruelly. All that led to the fact that this part of the Russian lands began to struggle for their rights. They wrote letters to Warsaw demanding that their rights be observed and that people be commissioned here, including to Kiev…

So, the Poles were trying in every possible way to polonize this part of the Russian lands and actually treated it rather harshly, not to say cruelly. All that led to the fact that this part of the Russian lands began to struggle for their rights. They wrote letters to Warsaw demanding that their rights be observed and that people be commissioned here, including to Kiev…

Tucker Carlson: I beg your pardon, can you tell us what period… I am losing track of where in history we are?

'''Tucker Carlson:''' I beg your pardon, can you tell us what period… I am losing track of where in history we are?

Vladimir Putin: It was in the 13th century.

'''Vladimir Putin:''' It was in the 13th century.

Now I will tell what happened later and give the dates so that there is no confusion. And in 1654, even a bit earlier, the people who were in control of the authority over that part of the Russian lands, addressed Warsaw, I repeat, demanding their rights be observed that they send to them rulers of Russian origin and Orthodox faith. When Warsaw did not answer them and in fact rejected their demands, they turned to Moscow so that Moscow took them away.

Now I will tell what happened later and give the dates so that there is no confusion. And in 1654, even a bit earlier, the people who were in control of the authority over that part of the Russian lands, addressed Warsaw, I repeat, demanding their rights be observed that they send to them rulers of Russian origin and Orthodox faith. When Warsaw did not answer them and in fact rejected their demands, they turned to Moscow so that Moscow took them away.

So that you don’t think that I am inventing things… I’ll give you these documents…

So that you don’t think that I am inventing things… I’ll give you these documents…

Tucker Carlson: It doesn’t sound like you are inventing it, but I am not sure why it’s relevant to what’s happened two years ago.

'''Tucker Carlson:''' It doesn’t sound like you are inventing it, but I am not sure why it’s relevant to what’s happened two years ago.

Vladimir Putin: But still, these are documents from the archives, copies. Here are letters from [[Bogdan Khmelnitsky]], the man who then controlled the power in this part of the Russian lands that is now called Ukraine. He wrote to Warsaw demanding that their rights be upheld, and after being refused, he began to write letters to Moscow asking to take them under the strong hand of the Moscow Tsar. There are copies of these documents. I will leave them for your good memory. There is a translation into Russian, you can translate it into English later.

'''Vladimir Putin:''' But still, these are documents from the archives, copies. Here are letters from [[Bogdan Khmelnitsky]], the man who then controlled the power in this part of the Russian lands that is now called Ukraine. He wrote to Warsaw demanding that their rights be upheld, and after being refused, he began to write letters to Moscow asking to take them under the strong hand of the Moscow Tsar. There are copies of these documents. I will leave them for your good memory. There is a translation into Russian, you can translate it into English later.

Russia would not agree to admit them straight away, assuming that the war with Poland would start. Nevertheless, in 1654, the Pan-Russian Assembly of top Clergy and Landowners headed by the Tsar (Zemsky Sobor), which was the representative body of power of the Old Russian state, decided to include a part of the Old Russian lands into the Moscow Kingdom.

Russia would not agree to admit them straight away, assuming that the war with Poland would start. Nevertheless, in 1654, the Pan-Russian Assembly of top Clergy and Landowners headed by the Tsar (Zemsky Sobor), which was the representative body of power of the Old Russian state, decided to include a part of the Old Russian lands into the Moscow Kingdom.