Comments by "Варяжский вопрос" (@normanism) on "TED-Ed" channel.

  1. Kyivan means Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine Rome is the capital of Italy which doesn't make Ancient Rome Italy (or if you will Romania).
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  2. groomed by Germany to be a pawn Since there was no Germany in 18th century so you should replace it in your hypothesis with some correct land: Prussia, Saxonia, Bavaria, Westphalia... Which one "groomed" Peter the Ist?
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  3. So historically, Russia is part of Kievan Rus, which is Ukraine Ukraine was established in 1991 when Soviet Union collapsed. So calling Kievan Rus a "Ukraine" it's pretty much the same as calling Ancient Rome "Romania".
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  4. Modern day Russia appeared about 15-16 century around Moscow Principality So now 15-16th century is "modern day" :D
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  5. Can you prove your statement by giving examples of similarity of Mongolian language with Russian? If Russians are "descendants of Mongols" their languages should be similar?
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  6.  @itzpro5951  I've always wondered how do they picture the "name stealing", was it like Peter the Ist sneaks into a secret room where they were keeping the name "Rus" in a marble box, breaks the lock and steals the golden plaque inscripted "Rus". On the next morning they woke up, found out the name was stolen and were like: alright, our name's gone, now we have no other option othern then to call ourselves "Ukrainians."
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  7.  @itzpro5951  Exactly! Like if you guys really want to be Russians, nothing could be easier?
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  8. Есть хорошая книга А. Толочко - "Очерки начальной Руси". Он предлагает модель реконструкции ранней древнерусской истории без участия летописей.
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  9. The archeological excavations show no evidences of any migrations of Western Slavs from Baltic region to Novgorod area. The culture of Slovens is way different from Obodrites so they also can't be Western Slavs. Ladoga, Rurikovo Gorodische, Gnezdovo and many other administrative centres of Rus had graveyards with cremations in ships very similar to Scandinavian of Viking age. An Arab traveller Ibn-Fadlan who met Rus'es on Volga also described their burial tradition as a cremation in ship. The names of the members of the princely family from the peace treate with Byzantium of 944 show clear Scandinavian ethymology (Karl, Ingeld, Turbern, Gunar, Sven etc). So basically behind the hypothesis that Rus'es were Slavs there is nothing but a desire to remove vikings from the history of the Rus replacing one "nation of lords" with another, more politically correct.
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  10. @olga9219  1. Haplogroups do not define ethnicity 2. The Scandinavian graveyard Plakun next to Ladoga with ship cremations clearly shows where did Ruses come from 3. Konstantin Porfirogenis describing Kievan Ruses mentions the names of the Dniepr rapids both in Slavic and Rus languages which would be nonsense if Ruses were Slavs.
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  11.  @olga9219  Modern historical science relies on written sources and archeology. The works of 18th century historians (both Bayer and Lomonosov) today have only historiographical value. The Rus were called Sveons in the Bertin Annals of 839, and John the Deacon calls the Rus "Normans". The names of the Rus also have a clearly expressed Scandinavian etymology. So Bayer only summarized the sources known to him, and did not invent anything new. As for Lomonosov, he derived the Rus from the Prussians, so I do not see how this will help the thesis about the greatness of the Rus.
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  12. Rus never used glagolic alphabet.
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  13. Its information is confirmed by both parallel written sources and archaeology.
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  14. Yes, and Ancient Rome is Italy.
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  15. All ambiguous places in the chronicles are easily resolved by parallel written sources and archaeological data. The Scandinavian/Vikings presence in 9-11th century in Rus is a scientific fact.
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  16.  @rodjarrow6575  my message is not about Scandinavian mercenaries in the service of Russian princes My message was that Russian princes WERE Scandinavians in the 9th century. We don't see any other princes there other than Scandinavian, neither in written sources nor in the archeology. For example, in the peace treaty of 944, concluded between Igor and Byzantium, the names of the members of the princely family are 90% Scandinavian (Karl, Ingeld, Turbern, Gunar, Sven, Roald etc, etc). Scandinavians and Varangians are not synonyms in the text Russian chronicle They are. Nestor mentions among Varangians Sveones, Normanns, Goths, Angles and Rus. Also in "Annales Bertiniani" you can read as in 839 the Rus ambassadors at the court of Louis the Pious were identified as Swedes. Therefore, one can be both Swedes and call himelf Rus.
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