Comments by "Omelyan 🇺🇦" (@EAGauss) on "RobWords" channel.

The Medieval state of Rus with a capital in Kyiv (now Ukraine) has nothing to do with Muscovia (now Russia). Ruthenians (now Ukrainians) considered Muscovians (now Russians) as foreigners and vice versa because they had different origins, history, languages and cultures. Russian tsar Petr I renamed Muscovia to Russia in 1721, faked the history and started tracking the origins not from Moscow but from Kyiv to make his country older and Christian therefore reputable because previously Muscovia was known as a Great Tartaria with barbarians living there. Previously it wasn't even considered as a part of Europe.
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8:10 Stop using russian sources of (mis)information. "Ukrajina". "U" means whole, united or inner, internal depending on the context. "Krajina" means a country, a land or a homeland again depending on the context. In most of Slavic languages the word "kraj" means home. For instance, in Polish "Armia Krajowa" literally means "Home Army". In Ukrainian there is a popular song "Kray, miy ridnyi kray", which means "Land, my native land". Only in russian the word "krai" means "edge" but they didn't give the name to Ukraine, Ukrainians came up with it themselves. So it's logical to look for the etymology in Ukrainian, not in russian.
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@imperskiikulak446 do not confuse Russia with a capital in Moscow and Rus with a capital in Kyiv. One of the first maps that use the name of Ukraine is dated 1613. In 1648 Guillaume de Beauplan, French cartographer, engineer and architect released the "General Map of Ukraine" where at the same time he mentions Muscovia, not russia.
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@imperskiikulak446 at that time Russians called themselves Moskovites, whereas Ukrainians called themselves Rusyns. Regarding the 1614 map, there is no Russia on the map nor Ukraine but there is Tartaria on the territory of modern Russia.
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@imperskiikulak446 you compare Church Slavic (Old Bulgarian) language of the chronicles of XII century to modern Ukrainian. However, it is interesting that citizens of Kyiv are still called Kyiane, not Kyivlyane or Grand Prince's name is Volodymyr, not Vladimir (in Ukrainian way, not in russian).
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@gooseob I told nothing about Belarusians but russians have nothing to do with Ruthenians or Rusyns.
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@imperskiikulak446 In the ethnic history of Ukrainians, key ethno-unifying names can be highlighted over the last 2000 years: - Antes, Sclaveni (IV-VII centuries); - Dulebes (VI-VII centuries); - Slavs of the VII-XI centuries: Polans, Volhynians, Drevlians, Ulichs, Tivertsi, White Croats, Dregovichs, Severians; - Ruthenians, Rusyns (Rus, Rusyns, state formations — Medieval state of Rus with a capital in Kyiv, Kingdom of Rus, Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Rus, Ruthenian Voivodeship) X-XX centuries; - Cossacks (Cherkasy, pospolyty, state formation — Hetmanate) XVI-XVIII centuries; - Ukrainians (state formations — Hetmanate, Ukrainian People's Republic, Ukrainian State of Pablo Skoropadskyy, Ukrainian SSR, Ukraine) XVII-XXI centuries.
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@imperskiikulak446 Muscovites as a part of the Golden Horde have robbed Kyiv but it was a raid, not an invasion. So if invaders arrived from the north, the locals would not have relocated there. In the Western park of Ukraine the Kyiv dynasty further lived as a Kingdom of Rus and then formed the Grand Commonwealth of Lithuania and Rus.
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@imperskiikulak446 there are no proofs that Rurik even existed. Neither there are archeological proofs of the so-called Kulikovo battle. That's because russians came up with the myth and can't even find where the mythical battle took place. I enjoy watching you jump from one topic to another. Go on!
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@D.S.handle в українській мові є слова "кордон" та "межа", які описують "border". І логічно, що якщо і існував сенс "borderland", то точно не в українців. Тобто якщо ця теорія про "прикордоння" є вірогідною, то це точно не є самоназвою українців, бо ми точно самі себе так би не назвали. Це не має сенсу ані з географічної точки зору, ані з етимологічної. Найімовірніше це українці називали свою рідну землю Україною, і відповідно тих, хто живуть на ній називали українцями. А коли росіяни почули слово "Україна", то вони неправильно його тлумачили, бо у їхній мові "край" означає "border". Але тут же ж ідеться не про тлумачення назви країни іноземцями, а саме про походження назви, тобто про самоназву. І українці явно не назвали себе так, бо росіяни вважали їх "прикордонниками".
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@imperskiikulak446 since most of the tribes you mentioned were nomadic, they moved further. Some of them stayed, got assimilated with indigenous Slavic population and took part in ethnogenesis of the modern Ukrainian nation. Ukrainians and their ancestors have been controlling and serving multiple trading routes for centuries.
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@imperskiikulak446 Muscovites as a part of the Golden horde have robbed Kyiv but local population would not have relocated to the north. It was a raid, not the invasion. Anyway, the kingdom of Rus still existed afterwards and the Kyiv dynasty further lived in the Western part of Ukraine then formed the Grand Commonwealth of Lithuania and Rus.
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@imperskiikulak446 before 1721 Petr I had a title "tsar moskovskiy" afterwards he self proclaimed himself as an "emperor velikorossiyskiy". Therefore, there was no Russia before 1721, it was Muscovia because Muscovia was printed on books, maps and official documents before 1721. Look up coins released before 1721 and you will be surprised to see they clearly state Muscovian rouble, not russian.
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@marketersson you're right, russians or "rossiyane" as they call themselves, manipulate the names and the history to justify their ongoing military aggression they started against Ukraine and Ukrainians.
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@bhministry you just believe in the russian theory of the three united nations - Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians. I can tell that because you mentioned the so-called "Kyivan Rus", which is also a russian theory that suggests there were multiple Rus-es like Moscow Rus, Novhorod Rus and others. Russian did that to support their theory that all the Rusyns (Ruthenians) from the territory of modern Ukraine migrated to the north and moved their capital to Moscow, which is stupid and has no evidence. In reality, there was one and only Rus with one capital in Kyiv. And yeah, the fact that you call yourselves ethnic Ukrainian doesn't increase your credibility because you are brainwashed and refer to the faked russian version of the history that russians use to justify their current war against Ukraine.
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