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The Russian myth that "Kyivan Rus' never existed, being an artificial 19th-century term" conflates categories: the modern label and Rurik legend do not negate the real Rus' state centred on Kyiv.
Read more →The myth that the Holodomor was a natural famine is false: the 1931 harvest was adequate, and the mass deaths of 1932–33 came from Stalin's grain seizures — up to 4 million dead in Ukraine.
Read more →Early modern Ukraine in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a self-governing society under the rule of law (the Lithuanian Statute) — the antithesis of Muscovite autocracy.
Read more →After Rus', Ukraine's lands passed to Lithuania and Poland, then the Cossack state — not Moscow, which dismantled this continuity by war and Catherine II's decrees rather than 'inheriting' it.
Read more →The myth that "Crimea was handed to Ukraine illegally" underpins the 2014 annexation. In fact the 1954 transfer was fixed by three decrees, and Russia recognized the borders in 1994 and 1997.
Read more →Russia's cult of the "Great Victory" on May 9 is not mourning but a militarist quasi-religion and political tool: Putin as the "new Stalin" who needs "Nazis," duly found in Ukraine.
Read more →Holos Pravdy is an open historical encyclopedia that systematizes the material from historian Vitaliy Drybnytsya's Vox Veritatis video debates. Every claim is backed by verified sources and linked to a video timecode.
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