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Gaslighting Ukraine Part IX: Russia’s revisionist history of EuroMaidan

  https://www.thehistoriansquarterly.com/winter-2024   Gaslighting Ukraine Part IX: Russia’s revisionist history of EuroMaidan 12/22/2024 0 Comments   By Timothy Holtgrefe  ​ December 2024 For several years prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin had devoted much of his time and effort to promoting false narratives and a revisionist history of Ukraine as early as 2005. However, the rhetorical gaslighting and denial of Ukraine’s rich cultural heritage is actually nothing new. In fact for Russian autocrats it is an historical continuity going back several hundred years in an effort to subjugate a race of people. What is surprising is not that the Russian Empire ‘russified’ their ethnic minorities, as all colonizers...