russia in this war against ukraine, after analyzing the works of their theorists like dugin there, etc., it is absolutely obvious that this war is not being waged so that russia will conquer the donbass or the south of ukraine and not to force ukraine not to join nato in any case war it is being waged for the complete occupation and destruction of ukraine as an independent state, but that is not all, the war is also being waged for the destruction of ukrainians as a separate people. therefore, it is a war for survival, in order to survive, endure and break imperialism, which wants to return the whole world in the 19th century, if not in more ancient times. well, by the way, russia is of course very difficult to explain to its people, although, again, they are, so i think they explain to a greater extent to people who live closer to moscow to peter there to others there centers of cultural, scientific and economic centers to explain something to the residents of buryatia and so

on, i think it's not that they wouldn't understand, no one would take it seriously and there's no need to explain anything, they're just brought and thrown into this hell of war, but still, russia is trying explain and who are they fighting against, fighting against ukrainians, just fighting against ukrainians, well, not very good logic, and now that we understand what and and it is necessary to explain why we and why they did not manage to quickly achieve a result and win this war and why the war dragged on and so sergey lavrov the head of the foreign policy department of the russian federation found an explanation against whom russia is currently fighting, they will listen to him now and then we will continue, but you know when the second world war began, because hitler under his banners collected almost a significant part of the majority of european countries for the war against the soviet union. now, including the european union

together with nato, they are gathering such an already modern coalition to fight the big score of the war with the russian federation. well, before that, one more of the russian mts now who i will not mention somewhere on some talk-shop it was a story said that russia never managed to win a war against a coalition of states, well now we are not talking about the second world war because then russia also had canada in the coalition of britain and the united states of america supported the soviet union without this support, it would hardly have been possible to win. well, let's also not forget that japan did not stab stalin in the back, because they had their own agreement there, because it would also be much more problematic to win, that's why there was a coalition against a coalition well, now, explain why lavrov once again creates this myth about modern hitlerites, about how napoleon's grand arms came to russia, does this mean that there is some kind

of coalition of nations and is it really in russian history there is this problem that they could not win against the coalition alone, this is being created for the sake of consolidating russian society. that's all. because what they are doing, they are essentially creating such a quiet , typical transfer technology. they say that in the second world war we fought against the forces of the whole of europe, they have such a mythology although this is also completely untrue, because on the one hand, some european countries did not participate in the war at all, such as sweden , switzerland, ireland, for example, portugal, and on the other hand, some countries, such as britain, have always been on the side of the ussr in 1941 and helped the soviet union but nevertheless, they generalize all this , simplify it because, well, why should people know more about these details, because it is already for,

apparently, for very intelligent people, it is necessary to keep in such a relatively, well, you know, ignorance always it will simply be more convenient to manage them in this way , and now they make zero. look, please, for 75 plus years, and we have the same situation, we seem to be at war against the whole of europe, this is the psychology of the so-called pumping of society with life in the position of a surrounded fortress, there are only enemies around us , that is why we have to be so tough, cruel and aggressive in order to fight against the overwhelming enemy forces and in order to survive, this is how russia is pumped up with such propaganda , although in fact they are fighting against one ukraine, no other european state entered the war, not a single one another state officially does not send its armed forces to ukraine, but they only provide

assistance with arming with ammunition, they provide financial assistance, but this is not at all the case send your troops to fight at the front really, that's why they are trying to explain in this way why it is not possible to break ukraine, because at first their propaganda for years told that as solovyov said, they blink an eye. literally there in a matter of days it will be eliminated , but in time i am against the war with coalitions with such well, let's not talk there maybe about the times of the muscovite empire, the war there, ivan the terrible , oleksii mikhailovich, there are some more like that, well, there ivan iii. maybe we can still remember. but if we are talking about the history of the russian empire, is it really? well, i remember the crimean war. let's say

it is possible some other wars, or really, when russia fought with several nations, it could not win alone. if so, what was the reason? because remembering the crimean war, i remember the ones of sevastopol, tolstoy narrates, but this is his personal opinion. although he has a personal opinion about this war, in which, by the way, he also took part there in sevastopol, there is even a gun somewhere somewhere there, from which lev nikolayevich shot, but he wrote about the fact that russia lost only because its weapons were not as modern as the weapons of the opponents. well, there, in particular, the french, the english, and so on, and that this was allegedly not the reason because there is a russian spirit weak or the russians fought badly and in your opinion and based on your information, what was the main reason for russia's defeats at the time when it opposed coalitions of nations, well , first of all, it is difficult for any country to fight against a coalition alone. quite logically because

a coalition is a union of the forces of several states, and secondly, in the crimean war, russia really lost, in particular, due to its technological backwardness. well, just elementary examples, e-e, in russia, there was a rifle, a single-shot firearm, the allies of the british, the french already had a lot of charging rifles in the allies had a steam ironclad fleet in the russian empire. the black sea fleet was a wooden display case, so the defeat was understandable, plus it was very difficult for russia to communicate in that war. it was extremely difficult to supply the crimea from distant provinces of the empire and the allies, thanks to their complete superiority in the black sea, managed to quickly transfer significant forces to the crimea and create a numerical advantage there, well, in many areas pronto in the crimea, the numerical advantage of the allies plus their technical technological advantage

determined the overall victory in the crimean war, but i would like to note that it is not even necessary the coalition necessarily lost the russian empire, let's remember the russo-japanese war of 1904-5, when the huge russian empire was defeated by japan alone, and this happened not at all because someone there really supported japan, indeed japan had support, but purely financial, diplomatic , a little economic from great britain, the united states, while the russian empire had support from france, for example, very significantly in those days, and nevertheless, the russian empire lost this war because, again, it it was somewhat technologically inferior, communications in the far east were extremely stretched, it was very difficult to fight in the presence of one of the railway lines from central russia, the fleet was less prepared

the military was much weaker than that of the japanese and they lost this war, and it was extremely painful and unexpected, because at first there were absolutely such traitorous attitudes, they said that we would sign the surrender of japan in tokyo and everything and in no other way, and not just lost, but lost part of the territory half of the island of sakhalin lost the entire pacific fleet lost its main base in the far east of porto this is how it ended and led to a revolution inside russia 1905-7 years ago not always a coalition sometimes even one state defeated russia vladimir putin recently accepted himself with peter the first, well, although he is physically not peter i at all, such a two-meter uncle was completely different in character, completely different in behavior, until now there are disputes, well, at least it is possible, somehow, you know, disputes between fans of conspiracy theories about what is

was it really the same petro romanov who went to this big embassy? was it someone else who came? well , let the historians argue, they are looking for evidence , but peter went, we will assume that peter came, a completely different person than putin. well, he himself compares exactly with peter the first, and in your opinion, with which of the rulers of russia could you compare putin in any case not with peter and because this once again only proves how much putin does not know the history of his country and tries to teach the history of other countries, peter i was at all times his pathological cruelty, he was a serious reformer. and what reforms, even of a close scale, did putin implement in

russia ? he noticed that the european world is starting to rush forward, while the east asian world is conservating itself and really starting to lag behind. putin is completely the opposite of what is happening now, he has closed russia to western civilization, he has isolated it with his absolutely senseless and aggressive attack on ukraine and closed this window to europe what can be said about petro cut and as they said then partly putin cosplay you know how they say now stalin obviously because such a genocidal cruel policy towards other peoples is a lot of effort of the national empire to consolidate around the russian idea. at the end of this reign, stalin actually almost became a russian nationalist, well, at least we remember his toast to the

great russian people in the 45th year after the victory over germany, that's why there is something similar from this on the other hand, let's remember how a few years ago, putin's fans from alexander iii may have been more suitable to the scope because alexander ii was such a conservative monarch who tried to stop democratic reforms in the country and its development towards western democratic values , values ​​of human life, general equalization of rights, etc. and putin opened something, a monument to alexander the third in the occupied crimea, so i don't see similarities with any specific monarch well, there can't be complete similarities , but there is something from a few you know some similar features of hitler from by the way, i don’t, please excuse him, the most, or at least, knowingly or unknowingly,

putin copies the most with his annexation of crimea and his invasion of the donbas, a war that he i started with the expectation that there might be an even bigger war. i recently watched a movie about hitler on netflix. there were good words. at that time, europe in europe. nobody wanted war . maybe even the semi-germans did not want a big war, but hitler wanted this war. and so it turns out that putin actually wanted this war on such a scale, hitler was calculating for a blitzkrieg, but his generals at least from what is known about what they say and write and understood that the war was lost even after well, maybe even before the defeat at stalingrad is possible after it was not possible to take moscow. well, maybe there already in february 1943, when there was a defeat at

stalingrad . in principle, but hitler believed to the end that this war would be won and it lasted for several years, there were three years, but everyone understood that this was all in your opinion now, uh, understanding the power of russia, its industrial power, its fossils, so to speak powers that it has and this is an infinite number of weapons, let them be obsolete and that also works there and an infinite number of people who can be bought for this war for nothing because they actually do not have them there well, you if they steal these toilets from us and rock cleaners and underwear, it is clear that a large number of people live very poor. therefore, this war is also an opportunity for them to make some kind of money. surrounded by putin and our most important partners are the western ones, which is already clear anyway, there can be a war for a year, it can

be two, on different scales, in different tensions, but in principle, the blitzkrieg has failed , and it is obvious that the key goal of the opportunity to immediately go to the danes is putin, this opportunity already lost. we cannot know whether it is understood in russia, especially in putin's entourage, because we have no information at all about what is happening in this environment . any information that comes out of it is some kind of rumor, versions, unverified data. what by the way, once again demonstrates how closed this environment is of a dictatorial type, but it is quite obvious to the whole world that the further russia continues to fight in ukraine, the longer it will try to grab some more territories , the more it will only worsen its situation because no one will cancel the sanctions, new sanctions will apply new losses and victims will be among the russians, the economy will stagnate, the state will be isolated

and gradually the standard of living in the country will fall and people want it, whether they want it or not, the government does not want it, but it is not a pleasure, it will increase definitely all this will last longer, but the personal ambitions of this leadership are so high that they can not afford to admit their defeat and their mistake, whose mistake is that they invaded ukraine, their mistake is that ukrainians and russians are actually not the same people, they are completely different peoples completely different states, unfortunately, we cannot say for sure whether putin's entourage is ready for any changes. very often in history, some drastic changes, such as coups d'état , revolutions, mass riots have happened very often . unexpected and not predicted, so it can happen, but when no one tells you such information now

, and ukrainians need to be ready for all scenarios, in particular, for a protracted long war , that is why i emphasize once again that from absolutely every ukrainian, no matter where he was, no was there, now a lot depends on his support of the armed forces of ukraine, you know, if russia is compared to a bear, well, i thought so recently, because now the war has really entered such a protracted phase, the war of attrition is so ukrainian troops are engaging huge russian forces in the east , there in severodonetsk, lysychanska, this makes it possible, let's say, to take certain offensive actions in the south of our country, where russian troops are concentrated to a lesser extent, this is the tactic, by the way, with the bear, you know when you even read there, in particular , ivan franko e pro e zakhar berkut there were goals and

science how to defeat a bear how to fight with him, this is where you need to have art, the most stupid thing for a person would be to hug a bear, try to overcome it, break it in principle, the strongest person can be broken by a healthy person, that's why it's understandable, and here it's very important and interesting. because i see that you are also in your profession, and in your profession, you are still dealing with the issues of the army of the armed forces of ukraine. -m on the innovative , different e leadership of the army and maybe our partners support us how to defeat the bear without hugging it because i will say it again it is very difficult for any person if you compare russia, russia with a bear is not very easy just break this powerful animal, so to speak , by hugging it and standing face to

face with it, please, for every force in this world, there is a counter-force, necessarily in the case of russia, i would n't overestimate its capabilities either, they did it themselves have overestimated their own capabilities, therefore success depends on the consolidation of efforts, so far indeed no other country is fighting against russia, but the consolidation of the world community is extremely important and vital, to what extent they will support ukraine, financially support weapons, humanitarian support diplomatic help, etc., of course also pressure on russia and the strengthening of sanctions, one of the most key issues now is the refusal to buy russian energy carriers, this is the thing that is really capable of inflicting a greater blow on russia than even the possible supply of weapons to ukraine, so we see what to do. the world cannot rebuild immediately

the economy is not a matter of one day, but with time, everything is really possible, and the task of the ukrainian army is, of course, to inflict maximum losses on the enemy and to fight with the occupiers, and the task of our diplomacy is in order to support these international efforts to support ukraine and to isolate russia in order to prevent the weakening of this anti-russian front, such an economic and diplomatic one, because there is such a threat, there is no doubt that the so-called war fatigue will grow in other countries, that they will try to adjust somehow under the situation, somewhere there will be elections on the nose of politicians. they will also try to mimic here under somehow under their voters, the same thing can increase in ukraine because of the war, in no case none of us has the right

allow yourself to relax and get tired, let 's rest after the victory in any case. i know that the field of your research and the field of your interest is somewhere around the intersection of the 19th and 20th centuries, and in particular the ukrainian war for independence in the years 17-21 , which, unfortunately, was lost and it really difficult for 4 years there is a lot to study, to understand, to know how to read different diaries, research, memories, er, to actually orient yourself well, because what happened there, i am interested in such a question , they always say that ukraine lost because there was no of unity, ukraine lost because there was weak support from the west. well, there were also problems in the west, and they were quite significant. well, ukraine lost there for some other reasons. for ukraine, in fact, then to stand up and defend its independence how poland

defended its well, at least until the 39th year, there were no such opportunities a priori. lost, please. there are a lot of different factors here, but on the one hand, you know, it can be considered that if the ukrainian state was not able to take place at that time, then it had no chance, but on the other hand, you can reflect on certain turning points when something could really help hold on to the ukrainian state in my opinion, one of such turning points is the year 1918, when the ukrainian people's republic and the ukrainian state of hetman skoropadsky rych existed. military support from germany and austria-hungary, and no one knows and cannot guess this already. alternative history is for

fiction writers to turn to, what could have happened if germany and austria-hungary had not lost in 1918-the first world war and had not withdrawn troops from ukraine if this support had been maintained for a few more years. it is quite possible that the ukrainian state could stand firmly on its feet during that period. unfortunately, this did not happen with the ukrainian state, also due to internal constant contradictions and incoherence the struggle of various political forces, and weakened in fact became a victim of bolshevik white guard expansionism, this is how, in principle, we can say the view of your opinion now , well, i understand for myself that it is very difficult tests fall on our generation for several generations perhaps i am not talking about the collapse of the soviet union the chernobyl accident there are several

maidans, the terrible hungry nineties and gangsterism and so on. now this is a test. well, i don't know, maybe it was possible to be proportionate. wasn't it the chernobyl disaster? but then again, it was an invisible enemy that struck and once again in a limited, limited reality, now, uh, rockets are hitting the whole of ukraine, and it happens, it happens every day, but is it possible to agree, or is it possible, i believe in some higher power that is so m-m different people you can call it, but something like that governs history. maybe they are as visible as they want. well, but there is some kind of management, and maybe our generation, even though we speak different languages ​​until now. in ukraine, there are different views and different politicians vote for different people. they love movies and there, well, there was a lot, a lot of different things, maybe now we have become more united but maybe this generation is really the most ready and morally and physically and spiritually the most ready to give

this last one for russia to the fighters of the empire and that's why it fell to our fate the fact that the current generation is the most ready does not cause any doubts at all , because if you compare it with the situation that existed 100 years ago during the ukrainian revolution, then simply, the level of national self-awareness was disproportionately lower then a huge part of the population felt that they were not even ukrainians, but somehow completely apolitical, but if you read memoirs about the ukrainian revolution, everyone writes that peasants were simple soldiers, workers, they often called themselves little russians, and some called themselves khokhlas , some orthodox, some christians, etc., etc. the nation was then still at the stage of formation that not at the stage of consolidation, now we have 2022, the nation is already created, it is already self-aware, it

is absolutely mature, worthy of its own independent state , therefore, it is undoubtedly the historical chance and a historical opportunity that cannot be lost under any circumstances. and now i have all the opportunities for this, and i would like to add that it was foreseen by the people of the past and back in 1895. of an independent ukrainian state that unites the west and the east, and he wrote that in the future all who live here will become ukrainians, that is, russians and poles and jews, he wrote that they will become ukrainians in the context of ukrainian citizenship and patriotism. because the ukrainian state will make everyone ukrainian patriots . they can speak different languages,

practice different religions, have different cultures , but they will become citizens of ukraine and ukrainian patriots . this war, as far as they understand well, they realize what ukraine is like, how they love it, and who is actually the enemy, let's see. and they sing the national anthem of ukraine, isolated stories like this

all over ukraine, children are fighting with the russians, beating them and creating roadblocks, they are fighting, this generation is growing up , this generation will be, i think . die and lose loved ones, buildings, health centers, but we see what will grow from this literally a few minutes, but tell us how you see what will grow from this blood from this war. so these are actually hard times and a great tragedy that we pay for its independence lives of our citizens, this is a huge tragedy, but the truth is that freedom is never given in vain. the generation that is growing up now, who are witnesses of these historical events, are already people who were born in independent ukraine, who grow up in independent ukraine, who are being formed right here, seeing all this with

their own eyes, they are russians the genocide committed by russia against our country is never carried out. these are people who study in ukrainian schools in ukrainian universities and the future of the ukrainian nation is definitely being educated. thank you very much for this conversation. thank you for taking the time to join and talk about the importance of worldview things. volodymyr muraev, candidate of historical sciences , employee of the research center for humanitarian problems of the armed forces of ukraine and co-author of the well-known project on youtube, history without myths. i wish you success in this work. i apologize for your work. we say goodbye to the conquered and i want to tell you, even dear viewers, who study history , create history because we are creating our victory . all the best and see the express, the protection of the sovereignty

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