The lies of the Norman theory
Rurik. Artist I. Ozhiganov
1160th anniversary of Russian statehood. The year 862 is traditionally considered the starting point of national statehood. This year, the vocation of the Russian prince Rurik took place.
"Summoning the Varangians"
Upon the death of the Novgorod prince Gostomysl, who was left without direct heirs, the Russian prince Rurik, the son of Umila, the grandson of Gostomysl, who ruled on the island of Ruyan (now Rügen), is called to reign by decision of the Council. The date is conditional, since under one name or another the Russian state had existed for at least 2-3 millennia before the calling of Rurik.
The theory of the Norman (German-Scandinavian) origin of Rurik does not stand up to the slightest criticism and has a purely political basis. It was created by Western historiography and their Russian followers in order to distort the true stories Russia and the Russian superethnos (superethnos of the Rus).
Rurik was from the dynasty of Russian princes, and the Slavic-Russian families during this period lived in Central and Northern Europe - today's Germany, Austria, Northern Italy, Denmark, Scandinavia. In particular, they were Wends - Vienna - Venets - Vandals, who were later recorded as "Germans". Almost all the ancient cities of Germany were founded by the Russians ("Slavic Atlantis" in Central Europe). The western branch of the Rus superethnos was destroyed in the process of the onslaught on the North and East, led by the Vatican. For several centuries there were bloody wars.
As a result, part of the Slavic-Russians was physically destroyed, part was forced out to the east - including the genera of the Rus-Varangians, part was enslaved. In the occupied lands, the Slavs were assimilated, deprived of faith, culture and language. The Slavs-Rus were Germanized, Christianized. Other Slavic families - Poles, Czechs and others, survived, but were westernized, fell under the rule of Catholic Rome.
The date of Rurik's calling is a stage in the history of Russia, just like the beginning of the Romanov dynasty. But not the start date. This must be remembered. The origins of Russia and the Russian people are in the depths of millennia.
Rurik on the monument "Millennium of Russia" in Veliky Novgorod
The lies of the Norman theory
The Norman theory was created with the aim of "circumcision" and distortion of the true history of Russia. A myth was created that the Russian "savages" called on the cultured and civilized Norman-Germans to create a state for the "unreasonable Slavs", instill civilization. Then this myth was supplemented by the educational activities of Christian missionaries, the Greeks, who allegedly gave the "Russian barbarians" writing, the correct faith (previously, the Russians "prayed to the stumps").
Western historiography, created in the Vatican, tried to "clean up" the history of Europe, removing the Slavs-Russians from it. Later, German historiography replaced the Slavs-Rus with "Germans". There remained "historical nations" - all sorts of Germans, Angles, French, Italians, Russian-Russians were excluded from this picture of the world. Although at the time of the Russian princes Oleg the Prophet and Svyatoslav there were neither the current Germans, nor Italians, nor French. And the Russians-Russians already had a developed state, a “country of cities” and an ancient spiritual culture, their own written language.
In Russian chronicles it is clearly stated that Russia is Russia, and not Svei-“Swedes”, Urmans-“Norwegians” and other non-Russians. That the language of Russia and the Slavs is one. There were no "Normans", "Swedes" in Russia, only as guests and mercenaries. Another thing is that the word itself, the ethnonym "Rus" itself, when pronounced by other peoples or in other dialects, dialects of the Russian language, acquired a different sound: Rugs, Rutens, Rusyns, Dews, Horns, Etruscans, Racens, Uruses, etc.
However, history is written by the winners. Therefore, the West is sure that Rus was founded by the Germans, the Swedes, that they built Ladoga, Novgorod, Polotsk, Pskov, Kyiv, Novgorod, Yaroslavl and other cities on the "land of the barbarians." That Russia was almost a colony of Sweden. And the Swedes and their descendants ruled Russia until the troubled times, before the arrival of the Romanovs. In particular. It is this picture that the average person gets when watching the allegedly popular historical series "Vikings". The picture is excellent, the images of the characters, the music, but false.
Russia is Russia
Before the era of Peter I, Russian and Western historiographers (in Europe these sources were later removed or edited) knew the true story. They brought the Russians from the biblical Japheth and from the grandson of Noah Scythian, from Rus, considering them to be the most ancient people. That is, the Russians stood in the old sources on the same board with the very ancient peoples of the biblical period - Jews and Armenians.
But in the "young Russia" created under Peter (Why did they create the myth of Peter the Great), German historians arrived, who began to create the "history of Russia" in their own way. Not knowing the Russian language and Russian history, they wrote a "true" history of the Russian land. Bayer, Miller and Schlozer found many local Russian followers who picked up and developed the idea of the “historical failure” of Russians and Slavs in general, of a “civilized and enlightened” Europe and “Russian barbarians”, the cultural mission of the Germans in Russia.
Thus was created the theory of Normanism, in essence, a racist-fascist theory. The base was simple. Like, the Romanovs, especially since the time of Peter, invited all sorts of Germans (there was no single German nation yet) and other “Swedes” to enlighten “young Russia”, this was the case in the XNUMXth century. The "savage Slavs" and the Finnish tribes invited the "developed" Norman-Swedes, the Germans-Scandinavians to rule themselves. The Russians were like the Indians of the New World, who greeted the Spaniards as white gods. It was on this basis that a new historiography of Europe was created. Although there were no “Swedes” and “Germans” during the time of Rurik.
It is enough to read the Russian chronicles, and it is clearly and clearly written there that “Rus, Slovenia and Chud decided ... and sent across the sea to the Varangians, to Russia; sitse bo zvahou Varangians with Russia, as if these drozei are called Svei, Ourmane, Anglians, and Gotha ... ". That is, to establish order-order, Russia, Slavs and Chud turned unequivocally to any "Vikings", "Normans" and other elves, but to a very specific Russia. Native brothers. Everything is crisp and clear. It can be traced archaeologically, historically and linguistically. They called Russia, Russians-Russians. Therefore, the Varangian Rus behaved differently on Russian soil than, for example, in the Christianized lands - England and France, where they passed with fire and sword.
Russ came to Russia. And “the language is one for Russia and Slovenia ...”. The Russian princes had their own names: Rurik - Rarog - Falcon (the coat of arms of Rurik is a falcon, the image of the Family falling down, a stylized trident, which was later appropriated by Ukrainian mythology); Sineus - Blue, Blue, Gray, Gray mustache; Truvor is a typical Slavic name from the series Tudor, Yavor, Ivor, Suvor, etc. It seemed that everything was natural, simple and understandable. Why write stories?
The answer is in the Great Game, geopolitics and information war that the West has been waging against Russia and the Russian people for centuries. History is written by the winners. Having exterminated and ousted the Rus from Central and Northern Europe, the West continues “Drang nah Osten”. In particular, now the Russian world, they want to completely expel Russians from Galicia-Volyn, Kyiv, Chernigov-Seversk Rus, Little Russia and Novorossia. To exterminate the memory that Kyiv, Chernigov, Poltava, Kharkov and Odessa are Russian cities, that Russian people have always lived there and now live, who are now called "Ukrainians".
Coat of arms of Staraya Ladoga - a falcon falling down (the coat of arms of Rurik)
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