Why are you laughing?
Is that you again?
When will you understand that you are a country with no cultural or technical value?
We are not a country of immigrants, but rather people with a long history
and today we keep the largest arsenal of conventional and nuclear weapons
What is wrong with you?
I don't think stockpiling nuclear bombs is a sign of civilization
What is this nonsense?
You still have a long way to catch up with the values ​​of freedom.
Would you listen to this!
Come out, come out
To where?
Come out from the Middle Ages, my dear
Russia will not forsake its history in exchange for your fake modernity
Kiev was not always the capital of Ukraine
It was actually the capital of the first Russian kingdom in history
And with Moscow it formed the nucleus of an empire that is the largest in history
We are now in the ninth century AD
Prince Rurik establishes a principality in the city of Novgorod
While his son Igor, killed the princes of Kiev to unite it with his father's kingdom
Making Kievan Rus' the first Russian kingdom in history,
and his dynasty continued to rule until the sixteenth century
How did Russia transform from paganism to Orthodox Christianity?
The Russian kingdom's strong expansion
happened only after it left paganism and embraced Christianity
You see this recumbent king? It is Vladimir Viladoslavich
He is in an important meeting to choose a new religion for his state
My lord...
I am listening!
We are God’s chosen people
He spoke to Moses without a mediator
And we have been promised to rule the world at the end of time
But we are an ancient Slavic people
So why does God favor you over others?
Will you remain banished from His mercy until then?
But, my lord...
This is a bad omen
My kingdom will be lost just like you were scattered across the land
And you, what do you have?
As for us, we worship God alone without partners
He sent His Messenger Muhammad as a mercy to the worlds
He established Islamic law and rulings for us
and taught us that an Arab has no merit over a non-Arab except by piety
But, your Highness...
Yes
They forbid drinking alcohol that you love so much
Really!?
Alcohol stimulates my men in battle
We want to continue drinking it
Islam does not permit that, your Highness
Why?
Because we are not like the Jews to whom our God said:
Do you believe in part of the Scripture and reject the rest
O my lord. Our religion is the religion of love
Get to the point!
The Lord sent His son to atone for people’s sins through his crucifixion
We believe in the father, the son and the holy spirit as one god
Mmmm... One god with three heads
This is similar to our own gods
I think my people will understand why I chose this religion
Show us the way, Reverand
With pleasure, my lord
The Orthodox Church rewarded Prince Vladimir with sainthood
in the year 988 AD
In the thirteenth century,
something unexpected happened
Massive Mongol armies stormed the lands of Kiev,
and Russian princes hastened to pay them royalties
The situation lasted for more than three hundred years
But the Principality of Moscow which became strong,
was granted by the Mongols the right to oversee other Russian principalities
Moscow flourished and took control over the rest of the Russian cities
and defeated the last remaining Mongols in the region
Meanwhile,
the Ottoman Empire was making its way to overthrow the Byzantine Empire
and with the collapse of the walls of Constantinople,
the capital of Orthodox Christianity in the world
Russian prince Ivan III sought to inherit this position
and to make Russia the new center of Eastern Christianity
So, he adopted the emblem of the Byzantine Empire
and married Sophia, a relative of the last emperor of Byzantium,
calling himself the Grand Prince of All Rus'
We are now before a decisive moment
Ivan the Terrible invades Siberia in the east and Poland in the west
and annexes them to his rule declaring Russia as a Tsardom
But...
What does he gain from Siberia?
The frozen, lifeless land
That was not in vain...
Russia has no natural obstacles to protect it from enemies
So, its rulers relied on external expansion
to increase the cost of invading Russia
They also sought to control Ottoman straits
to reach Mediterranean waters
and dispense with traditional trade routes
Ivan was really obsessed with power
He challenged the church itself marrying seven women
despite the prohibition of polygamy in Christianity
After his death, Russia fell into the inferno of civil wars
The Mikhail Romanov family rose after the civil war
and its rulers succeeded in liberating Ukraine from Polish occupation
annexing it to Russia in 1654 AD
And here was the beginnig of a new era
Peter the Great announces the establishment of Imperial Russia
Building a strong naval fleet and a modern army
and establishing a new capital named Saint Petersburg, after him
This expansion accompanied the rise of Napoleon in France,
who wanted Russia under his rule
So, during the reign of its Emperor Alexander I,
he launched a campaign to control Russia
claiming that he wants to liberate the Poles from Russian occupation
Napoleon entered Russia with Six hundred and eighty thousand fighters
But the Russians lured him into the depths of Russia
leaving Napoleopn with only one thousand and six hundred fighters alive
A shocking number!
Despite this Russian victory, winds of revolt blew from France to Russia
With peasants calling for reforms in the system of land ownership and labor
while others demanding a change in the form of governance
The unrest continued until the Bolshevik Revolution in the year 1917 AD
Lenin and his friends carry the banner of communism
whose theories were put forward by a philosopher
who did not expect his ideas to be adopted by Russians before others
It is the German Karl Marx
Russia swallowed up fifteen countries in Asia and Europe
to form the Soviet Union under communist rule
and becoming one of the largest empires in history
With an area exceeding 20 percent of land on the surface of the earth
Despite all of this magnitude
Hitler, essentially a socialist who hates communism,
recklessly invaded Russia in the midst of World War II
And the Nazis' defeat there was a start to losing the whole war
and a starting point for Russian expansion in Eastern Europe
As a result, almost half the continent became loyal to the Communist Party in Moscow
It didn't end there
Competition started with the United States, which also became a super power
and many events took place between the two countries within the Cold War,
such as the Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis
But poverty, corruption, tyranny and the weakness of Soviet infrastructure
threw their massive country into oblivion
As a result, the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991 AD
And the establishment of the Russian Federation was declared
And today...
Putin.. the strongman,
aspires to restore the glory of powerful Russia which is expanding east and west,
opposing the United States and NATO
and imposing its statements in international forums
Putin exploits his security companies, religious propaganda, nationalism,
and support for dictatorial regimes in favor of the Great Russia,
just like his ancestors did
Now his country is entering a fierce war in Ukraine
and receiving massive Western sanctions
that are about to destroy its economy and isolate the country from the world
Is it a new rising stage in Russian history?
Or a beginning of collapse for the dreams of the new Tsar?
[Script : ORABI ABDELHAY ORABI]
[Animation : OMAR ISMAIL]
[Voice: HAITHAM ALHALABI]
[General direction: AHMAD DADOUSH]
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