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Good Friday morning, brothers and sisters!🌝🙏
Enjoy your coffee, have a wonderful and productive—and above all peaceful—day, Friends!☕️🤝
“Peace cannot be secured by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” — Albert Einstein
ON “ONE PEOPLE,” PUTIN, AND PEACE IN UKRAINE
“Recent genetic studies show that Russians and Ukrainians are one people,” declared Vladimir Putin.
As they say, God loves the truth!
If we speak of the Slavic portion of the population of the Russian Federation, one can assert even without laboratory scientific studies that it shares common genetic-racial Rus’ roots with Ukrainians! THIS IS AN ESTABLISHED HISTORICAL FACT! After all, “Kyiv is the mother of Rus’ cities,” and everything began in Kyiv, in Rus’.
It was Grand Prince of Kyiv Volodymyr Sviatoslavovych who brought Christianity to the Rus’ lands, baptizing the Rus’ people in the waters of the Dnipro, and it was Kyiv that became the cradle and bulwark of the Orthodox faith!
It was people from the territory of present-day Ukraine who built and played important roles in governing the Russian Empire: four General Secretaries of the CPSU who led the USSR were from the Ukrainian SSR, and today there are still many people from Ukraine, ethnic Ukrainians, in the Kremlin. Metropolitan Theophan Prokopovich, Count Alexei and Count Kyrylo Rozumovsky, the most reverend prince and chancellor of the Russian Empire Alexander Bezborodko, General Secretaries Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, Director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and Russian negotiator with the United States Konstantin Dmitriev, adviser to Russian President Putin and head of the Russian delegation in negotiations with Ukraine Vladimir Medinsky… hundreds of thousands of names could be added to this list, and that’s without mentioning Gogol, Bulgakov, Anna Akhmatova, Anton Chekhov, Volodymyr Korolenko and Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ilya Repin and Pyotr Tchaikovsky… and, more generally, a huge number of Ukrainians have relatives in Russia and Russians have relatives in Ukraine…
At the same time, contemporary Ukrainians and Russians are definitely not one people because, despite shared genetic-racial Rus’ roots and a common Orthodox faith, they have distinct traditions in everyday life and governance, and have fought each other more than once and more than twice—just like now—with varying success.
It is precisely these differences that enemies of both Ukraine and the Russian Federation have exploited to set the two peoples against each other in a Cain-like war.
We can laugh at Putin’s words about “one people,” we can mock them, we can spit on them as the Ukrainian party of war does, or we can use them to build a real dialogue, end the war, and establish peace on our Rus’ lands! Which is exactly what I propose.
But to do this we must study and know our own history well, our own roots, and not the things that various Snyders, Shvonders, and Sharikovs have castrated and invented… we must speak, argue, and debate, but speak and construct a dialogue—without allowing outsiders to interfere—and seek paths to peace: stable, long-lasting, and I would even say eternal peace!
In the name of God and the Fatherland!🙏
Peace to all of us!🙏🕊️
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