[net-gold] COUNTRIES: RUSSIA, UKRAINE: What Vladimir Putin Chooses Not to Know about Russian History
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- Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 10:35:37 -0400 (EDT)
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COUNTRIES: RUSSIA, UKRAINE:
What Vladimir Putin Chooses Not to Know about Russian History
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What Vladimir Putin Chooses Not to Know about Russian History
Patricia Herlihy
May 1, 2014, 5:04 p.m.
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/
la-oe-herlihy-russia-ukraine-odessa-20140501,0,1564808.story
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/o76ubg4
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KGB agents are apparently not taught history, or so it would seem from
Vladimir Putin's recent statement that only "God knows" how a portion of
southeastern Ukraine ever became part of that country. The Russian
president refers to the region as "New Russia," an old idea that has
always been and remains an aspiration rather than a fact. Luhansk,
Donetsk, Odessa and other New Russian cities have been a part of Ukraine
for nearly a century. And even before that, they were never truly Russian.
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It was Empress Catherine II who first articulated the ambition that this
territory, which she acquired from the Ottoman Turks in the latter half of
the 18th century, would become "Novorossiia." Catherine wanted her
subjects to settle the new, mostly vacant land, and she did her best to
lure Russian nobles into the area. But few were willing to take chances on
"the wild fields," no matter what kind of deals she offered. Next, she
posted fliers in Europe promising cheap land, religious freedom and
exemption from taxes and military service to those who would settle in the
area. Mennonite and Catholic Germans, Italians, Jews, and some Swiss,
among other nationalities, accepted the invitation.
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Later, Catherine's grandson, Czar Alexander I, recruited dissidents from
the Ottoman Empire Albanians, Serbs, Bulgarians, Moldavians, Greeks,
Armenians and even some Turks to settle in New Russia as an anchor
against any Ottoman attempts to reclaim it. Some of the pockets of foreign
settlement were even exempted from Russian czarist rule and allowed to
preserve their national languages and customs. In the end, Catherine's New
Russia became home to many more non-Russians than Russians.
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The area's major cities also had distinctly non-Russian roots. Luhansk was
founded in the late 1700s by an Englishman, and Donetsk was established in
1865 by a Welsh entrepreneur, who built a steel mill and opened coal
mines. For almost a century after its founding, the settlement was known
as Yuzkovo (as close to the name of its founder, John Hughes, as the
residents could manage) before being changed to Donetsk in 1961.
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Early European governors of Odessa, New Russia's largest Black Sea port,
helped by the czars, did much to develop its economy and welfare. But by
the mid-19th century, Russia was suspicious of the city because of its
foreign population. Greeks, Bulgarians, Poles and Ukrainians formed secret
societies. Jews made up an increasing percentage of the population. And
Nicholas I, who ruled from 1825 to 1855, called Odessa "a nest of
conspirators."
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
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