The war for historical heritage and symbols is the most important war. This is best said about George Orwell in the novel anti-utopia "1984". "He who controls the past, he controls the future. Whoever controls the present controls the past ".

The Kremlin has a lot of fatal mistakes, but with regard to the control of the past and its rewriting, based on the political expediency of the current moment, they reached unprecedented heights. Therefore, the struggle for the right to consider Anna Yaroslavovna, she is Anne de Kiev, and her father Yaroslav the Wise "ours," that is to say Russians, is not just a comic tug of war from the historical textbook for the 4th grade of secondary school, but a struggle for something more global.

The right to believe that part of the history of another country, in this case Ukraine, can also be primitively squeezed and annexed, like the Crimea. And an attempt to appropriate foreign princes and the queen of France is nothing but an annexation of another's history. Putin is trying to deprive this very history of Ukraine as its most hated enemy. And in this war, Ukraine has no right to lose. The French do not bother to consider the states of medieval francs as part of the history of France, and they have no problems with self-identification.

The British consider "ours" and the Romans, and the Celts, and the Anglo-Saxons. Therefore, there should be no doubt and false modesty in recognizing both Yaroslav the Wise and Anna Yaroslavovna Ukrainians. By the way, and the monument to Anna of Kiev and the street of her name, too, would not have prevented Kiev. And in the very near future.

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