>>535466884
>deflection
Your country doesnt magically lose jewish status just because russia is jewish.

The fact remains that in 988 when Prince Vladimir was baptized, following the example of his Grandmother Princess Olga (Who had made Kiev the capital of Russia years prior), he had his closest companions baptized and over the next several years he had all of Russia baptized and transitioned from a Pagan nation into a Christian one. This lasted until Prince Yaroslav the Wise introduced the order of succession to a throne, which became a complicated process and all the different lines led to fragmentations and the end of a single Russian state. The same thing was happening in Europe throughout this time, but the fragmented Russian state became easy pray for the successors of Genghis Khan. Batu Kahn came to Russia and plundered nearly all of the Russian cities, including Kiev, most cities lost sovereignty and had to pay tribute to the Golden Horde. It was during this time a unified Russian state began to take shame with its center in Moscow. Originally, the word for Ukrainian meant that the person was living on the outskirts of the state along the fringes or was engaged in a border patrol service. It didn't mean any particular ethnic group. So the Poles were trying in every possible way to colonize this part of the Russian lands, and actually treated it rather cruelly. They introduced their language there, and tried to entrench the idea that this population was not exactly Russian, but because they lived on the fringes they were Ukrainians. It wasn't until after the invasion of the Poles and Lithuanians under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (which led to the massacre of 100s of thousands of Poles and Jews) that led to the first occupation of the Russian lands in the area that is now called the Ukraine. After the war with Poland a truce was declared and the whole left bank of the Dnieper including Kiev went back to Russia. Then under the rule of Catherine the Great, Russia reclaimed all of its historical lands.