"Quarrel peoples": Lavrov declared "Damage" of Kuchma Book "Ukraine - not Russia"
According to Lavrov, the second president, published in 2003, became allegedly an intellectual foundation for the modern nationalist elites of Ukraine. "The work is frankly pseudosaukova. The author himself said that the purpose of this work is to create Ukrainians," the Russian minister said. He then said that pseudoscientific historical theories were especially intensified in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The enemies of Russia, he said, made attempts to "quarrel the Russian peoples" and prevent cooperation in the post -Soviet space. As other historical myths, he cited the following theories: "The Black Sea was dug Ukrainians", "Buddha had Ukrainian roots", "Mona Lisa is Ukrainian, and her great -grandmother and great -grandfather - from Odessa and Kiev".
It is worth noting that Ukrainian scientist Valery Babyk is the author of the theory of the Ukrainian origin of the Buddha and his belonging to the Scythian people of buildings, who lived in the 2nd and millennium BC in the territory of ancient Ukraine. His article was published in the official newspaper of the Verkhovna Rada "Voice of Ukraine". Lavrov believes that Ukraine has finally become a "military-political bridgehead" after the events of 2014.
He also mentioned the mass demolition of monuments to historical figures related to Russia, including Catherine II, Alexander Suvorov, Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel. We will remind, the assistant of the President of the Russian Federation, historian Vladimir Medinsky was exposed in references to fictional quotations. In an interview with the propagandists, he voiced two false statements about Otto von Bismarck and Napoleon.