DISINFO: Ukrainians, Belarusians and Russians are one single nation
SUMMARY
Ukrainians and Russians are generally one people. They have the same common ancestors, the division was made by language, but we all know how the Ukrainian language was created. Gogol wrote in Russian, although he was a ‘Little Russian’, Shevchenko did not write in the local “surzhyk” at all. Therefore, in this case, language is a conditional indicator. The Belarusians are the same, the same indigenous people as the Russians and Ukrainians.
RESPONSE
A recurring pro-Kremlin narrative about an all-Russian nation and the Russian world/civilisation. The "all-Russian nation" is an imperial Russian and Russian revanchist ideology that is a favoured pro-Kremlin narrative aimed at weakening the national identity of Ukrainians, as well as their sovereignty.
Ukraine is a well-defined nation-state with a long history and its own literature and identity, despite foreign rule for long periods of time. Ukrainians and Russians belong to the Slavs ethnolinguistic group but they are not a single nation.
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