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Related: About this forumPutin's latest move includes a map of the 17th century
During a meeting with Valery Zorkin, the chairman of the Constitutional Court in Russia, President Vladimir Putin used a map from the 17th century to explain that Ukraine was created under the USSR. CNNs Erin Burnett and Matthew Chance report.
Has anyone informed Vladdy boy that there was a time Russia did not exist? Let's pull out one of those maps.
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Putin's latest move includes a map of the 17th century (Original Post)
blue-wave
May 2023
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EYESORE 9001
(25,949 posts)1. King Charles III is now paying attention
Quartermaster, fetch me those maps of the North American colonies from the 1750s.
Warpy
(111,283 posts)2. Go back a little more, asshole
Ukraine was mentioned by the Norse 1000 years ago. Russia didn't really exist back then, Ukraine was the center of Slavic civilization and what is now Russia was a largely empty land with few farms and settlements and a lot of nomadic trappers, hunters, and reindeer herders. The Norse traveled up and down the Don and built trading outposts inside Russia and that is where their civilization started. They did fuck all by themselves.
Iran was once listed as part of Russia. They won't take to reconquest any better than the Ukrainians did.
Jim__
(14,077 posts)3. Maybe Ukraine is really Scythia or Sarmatia.
marble falls
(57,114 posts)4. Again with the maps ...
This is the map I want:
"Here be dragons."
Rhiannon12866
(205,552 posts)5. We already knew he was trying to turn back the clock, but....