Posted on Apr 24, 2021
The Crimean War - Episode 1 The Reason Why
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My suggestion is to find books written in the late 19th century by a Pole with the name Henryk Sienkiewicz, a Nobel prize winner. He started his career as a staff writerin a Polish language newspaper, writing to inflame Polish nationalism. He wrote at the time Poland was split between Russia and Austria. Start with the Trilogy “The Deluge”, it is an easy read, but at the same time gives a good background history of the worlds beloved slavs. Henryk Sienkiewicz I think lived in the Russian dominated Poland, and never traveled to this area around the Volga or the Black Sea, but well versed as a Pole in Slav history from the Polish perspective With little effort the reader can see the eastern or Russian slav point of view.
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Slavic history including Poland and the western slav tells us this area is important to the slavic world, and to the world. I think it was Catherine the Great the German born Czarina who took Crimea from the Muslim Tatars? Or was it Peter the Great? In the Russian mind to hold Crimea is about a secure Russian Orthodox homeland. Putin’s recent words in a speech was his asking the rhetorical question why is it okay for the west meaning the US to have all or most of the economic power in the world? Good question and something needing to be discussed in diplomatic dialogue.
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Cpl Archie H.
I am sure Russian scholars would be better at explaining this history!! But my little understanding is Kiev Ukraine is the historic heart of Slavic the religion of Christian called Orthodoxy. Russian state much came later. I am only guessing with Mongol invasions the Rus which was then the power center of Slavs (were called Rus) moved north eventually creating the Russian state. This was of course was in conflict with western slavs headquartered mostly in Poland, and the ongoing fight with western religion of Christianity. Both eastern and western slavs wanted control the fertile land of todays Ukraine. So we see a conflict between religions that are today united by faith, but separated by religion and politics, thus ending in exasperating world shaking anger mobilizing distrust among the masses of both religions to kill each other.
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