The Lie of the Norman Theory
Svyatoslav. Warriors of the North. Artist I. Ozhiganov
Distortion and destruction of True history
In the West, the authentic version has long been rewritten history. Every ordinary person, if he knows anything about history at all, knows for sure that Rus-Russia was founded by the Swedes. That they built Novgorod, Pskov, Kyiv and Vladimir. That they gave the "Russian savages" the ruling dynasty of the Rurikovichs, created the Russian state itself. That Rus was practically a Swedish colony, the Normans and Germans brought the "light of enlightenment" and culture to the Russians.
This is also well shown in such a great series as "Vikings". The West has learned very well how to create illusory worlds. Like in the Russian Ukraine-borderland, where they created the myth of Ukraine-Rus, attributing Russian history to the fictitious people of "Ukrainians".
It is enough to look at how right now in Britain the history of England is being rewritten in the mainstream of political correctness, tolerance, multiculturalism and racial diversity. When in scientific books they write in all seriousness that the British Isles were first inhabited by black people (Negroes), then they were displaced by Europeans. That all the best was created by blacks. All this is supported by means of mass brainwashing, such as TV series, where the main statesmen of England in different eras are blacks, Asians, etc.
Three or four centuries ago, Western and Eastern historiographers traced the Russians back to Japheth and Noah's grandson Scythian, and to Rus. The Rus-Russians were considered the most ancient people of Europe and Asia.
But German migrant historians (Bayer, Miller and Schlozer), who never learned Russian, arrived in the "young Russia" of Peter I and his heirs. Through their efforts, the "true" history of the Russian land was written.
The German migrants who settled well in the Russia of the Romanovs ("Rimskys"), surprisingly, found many local Russian followers who picked up the idea of the "historical insolvency" of Russians and Slavs. And began to open the eyes of Russians and Europeans to the "true role" of German-Scandinavian culture and civilization on the "Slavic barbarians".
Thus, the Russian “classical (academic)” historical school was created, which cut out thousands of years of the history of the Rus in Europe and Asia, the history of Scythian Rus, the history of German-Vandal Rus (Vandal Rus'; Germanic Rus'). And the history of Russia began with the “Swede” Rurik and the baptism of Rus.
Norman Theory
The founders of the Norman theory reasoned simply: if three Germans and other Swedes were invited by the Romanovs to modernize Russia, then it was the same in the distant past. When the “wild Slavs who prayed to stumps” called the Vikings-Varangians to enlighten and restore order.
After all, the Viking brothers came to England and founded a kingdom among the "unreasonable" Britons, Scots, Angles and Saxons. The Viking Rollo came to Northern France with his retinue and created the Duchy of Normandy. The Varangian Russiero (Rus) arrived in Sicily and founded the Principality of Sicily and Naples.
And they actually came. Historical fact. The Varangians were invited, and they came as if they were their own people, as if they were related. Who? Clearly not the Swedes, who as a people formed in a later era.
Russian chronicles say it directly:
Rus, Slovenes and Chud decided... and sent across the sea to the Varangians, to Rus; for the Varangians called Rus, as these Druze are called Swedes, Ourmans, Englishmen, and Goths...
That is, for the establishment of order (law), the Rus, the Ilmen Slovenes and the White-eyed Chud turned not to the Swedes and Germans, who did not exist in the 9th century AD, but to specific Rus.
They called upon Rus, the Rus. They called upon their own, those they knew, with a common language, faith and traditions. At the same time, the Varangians-Rus behaved differently on Russian soil than in the lands of modern France or England, where a cruel war of extermination was being waged. The different behavior of the Varangians-Vikings in the West and in Rus is an obvious fact. The Rus came to Rus, and "for the language of Rus and the Slavs is one…" Everything is simple and natural!
It is also worth remembering that the word "Vikings" comes from the concept of "vik-ves" - "village, settlement". Accordingly, this is not an ethnonym, and an epithet. They are simply people from villages. The village and villages have long produced the best fighters, soldiers. Rural youth from Scandinavia, the Baltic (Varangian, Russian Sea) sought to serve at the court of the great Russian princes, were proud of such service, composed sagas-bylinas upon returning from military service and campaigns.
In Western Europe the situation was different. There the Rus-Varangians fought a life-and-death struggle. A struggle with the Vatican and its project of Christianization, assimilation and absorption of Russian Central and Northern Europe – “Drang nach Osten” (“Onslaught to the East”). The fiercest battle lasted for several centuries, and the Rus lost it, retreating to the east of Europe. The remaining Slavic-Russian clans were subjugated, Catholicized and assimilated.
It is also important to remember that "Norman" is not an ethnic term. It is purely geographical - it means "northern man".
"So you call the Varangians Rus, as our friends are called, and our friends are called Urmans, Englishmen, Foreigners and Goths, and so on.". "The Tale of Bygone Years", Ipatiev Chronicle, 1425th century (c. XNUMX)
"Northern People"
In the conditions of the Great Game (informational-ideological, political and military), the West cannot recognize that the Rus-Russians are the most ancient people of Europe and Asia, who already existed when there were no “ancient” Italians, French or Germans.
In order to distort the true history, they begin to invent fairy tales, stories about "wild barbarians" who crawled out of the swamps, about a mixture of Finno-Ugrians and Mongols who laid the foundation for the Russian people. That Rurik - Sokol was in fact Khrodrik, Khryorekh, etc. That his brother Sineus is, they say, not the gray-whiskered Russian Sivy, Sedoy, Siny Ushen, but "with his own kind." And that Truvor is not Truvor - a typical Slavic name from the series Yavor, Ivor, Suvor, Tudor, etc., but "with his faithful squad."
That "Rus" is not Rus at all, but "Rootsen-Ruotsi", and some local Finns called the Swedes-rowers "Rootsi". And the "unreasonable" Slavs, having heard this word, began to call themselves that. This absolute nonsense was endlessly replicated and became part of the Norman theory.
Although there were no Swedes or Finns at that time. And according to the research of J. Kron, the Finnish word "rootsi" in the 19th century meant "north", accordingly "ruotsi" - "these are "northern people", and not Swedes, as the Normanists are trying to convince us.
It got to the point that R. Skrynnikov, who was a loyal conductor of Marxism-Leninism in Soviet times, “changed his colors” by declaring that in the second half of the 9th – early 10th centuries “dozens of kings” (!) established themselves on the East European Plain and created “Norman Khaganates”. He called Prince Vladimir I Buldmir (although this is also a Slavic name). Rus' is the East European Normandy. Skrynnikov’s Rus' is backward and wild, while Scandinavia is advanced and developed. It is only unclear why the “civilized” Vikings called Rus' Gardarika, the Old City. And they considered it a special honor to serve the Russian princes.
More moderate Normanists write that even though there were no Swedes at that time (the Swedish people were formed no earlier than the 16th-17th centuries), Russian chroniclers meant the ancestors of the Swedes by the Swedes. But the word "Svei" itself means "our own", and the ancestors of the Germans and Swedes were not called that. In addition, it was not the "Svei" who were called, but the Rus.
Thus, "Swedish Rus", like Norwegian, Danish or German, is all pure lies. Lies. Distortion of true history. There were no Swedes, Norwegians, Danes or Germans in the 8th-13th centuries. There was no German, Swedish or Norwegian language, they appeared much later. The Vikings spoke a mixture of the Rus language and local dialects.
But there was Rus. It spoke Russian (Old Russian, Old Russian, but Russian). Rus and Slavs did not need translators. One root, one language, one family, one faith. That is why no traces of the "Norman-Swedish" language remained in Rus.
At that time, Rus' lived all over Europe. In Scandinavia, on the shores of the Baltic and North Seas, all over Northern, Central and Southern Europe.
The real essence of the Norman problem, which is hushed up, is who lived then in Europe, in Scandinavia, in Germany, etc. Westerners, Eurocentrists and Normanists try in every way to close this question, a priori declaring that in Scandinavia, in general in Northern Europe, Scandinavians-Normans, Vikings, ethnic groups of the Germanic language family originally lived. That is, translating the ethnic picture of the modern world of the 17th-21st centuries to the 5th-13th centuries.
This is an obvious historical forgery, on which all of Normanism and the "classical" Germano-Roman school are built. There were no "Germans" in Northern Europe yet, there were Rus and closely related Baltic Slavs-Slovenes. The Rus founded Scandinavian Rus, Novgorod Rus, and Kievan Rus. Their direct relatives, half-blooded and speaking the same language brothers – the Eastern Rus (descendants of Scythian Rus, Ilmen Slovenes, Severians, Polyans, Drevlyans, Krivichi and other clans of Rus and Slavs, who bore their local (often toponymic) names – took direct part in this civilizational and state building.
We must remember that written by historians of the "classical" Romano-Germanic historical school, historiographers of the "new Russia" of the Romanovs, and later by historians of Marxism-Leninism, the history of Europe and the world is a myth. It is based on the Great Game (geopolitics) and local national fantasies. The real history of ancient and medieval Europe was different.
The Germanization and Christianization of Northern Europe was just beginning during the reign of Rurik. Normans, Vikings, Varangians - these are the clans of the Rus, the Baltic Slavs. Our ancestors, who spoke the Russian language and its dialects.
The essence of the ethnic history of Europe comes down to the fact that in Northern and Central Europe the original, indigenous inhabitants – the Rus – were assimilated by the incoming Romano-Germans during the last millennium. They partially retained their racial, anthropological appearance, but lost their language, traditions and faith.
In Eastern Europe, the core of the Rus superethnos was preserved. The Rus adopted in many ways the filial ethnic groups of the Balts, the White-eyed Chud (Finno-Ugrians), but preserved their language, their traditions, their faith (Russian paganism, having accepted the traditions of Christianity, became the Russian Orthodox faith, "Slavic Pravi"), racial characteristics of the Europeans and became Russians.
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