Russian nationalists would sooner commit suicide :) No, they go for those mythical strong, smart, just and great in all the other respects Eastern Slavs who lived in the forests of Eastern Russia, Belarus and Central Ukraine before coming of Vikings. A nationalistic history is always a mythology mixed with ideology and has nothing to do with historical science - and in this case all those supposedly great Slavs were in reality just a bunch of forest tribes who were brought by the Vikings into the light of civilization. That of course doesn't sit well with Russian nationalists rejection of the West and declaration of themselves a master [at least over Slavs and other nearby people] race.
trhway|1 year ago
Russian nationalists would sooner commit suicide :) No, they go for those mythical strong, smart, just and great in all the other respects Eastern Slavs who lived in the forests of Eastern Russia, Belarus and Central Ukraine before coming of Vikings. A nationalistic history is always a mythology mixed with ideology and has nothing to do with historical science - and in this case all those supposedly great Slavs were in reality just a bunch of forest tribes who were brought by the Vikings into the light of civilization. That of course doesn't sit well with Russian nationalists rejection of the West and declaration of themselves a master [at least over Slavs and other nearby people] race.
thriftwy|1 year ago
For smaller nations.
Larger nations receive too much scrutiny to get away with having fake history.
Then again, they have more resources to try and tweak the history as a science...