Let me try to explain. From about the 70s, articles began to appear in the soviet press (mostly in magazines where fiction was printed) that perhaps some nationalities of the USSR have a more ancient history than previously thought. As a rule, the nationality to which the author of the article belonged was declared ancient. By the end of the 80's, during perestroika, they came to the point where they declared, for example, russians to be descendants of the etruscans, and ukrainians were deduced from the people who lived on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR many thousand years ago. However, such bullshit was invented by literally everyone, from Armenians to Yakuts. By the nineties, the authors of such texts got to the point where they began to declare the Black Sea to be the work of the ancestors of Ukrainians, and Ukrainians themselves to be Aryans or Atlantis, and so on. It is clear that all this was anti-scientific crap of the right-wing, but it simply could not fail to become the basis for parodies. This picture is one of such parodies. It's called "Ancient Rus[sian]".
Thanks for the explanation. So, it's basically We Wuz Kangz but for the Soviets. We had something similar here in the Balkans. Ever heard of the Bosnian pyramids? Or how the heroes of the Trojan war weren't Greeks but Serbs? Sorry for the late reply, just came to the site after a while
From about the 70s, articles began to appear in the soviet press (mostly in magazines where fiction was printed) that perhaps some nationalities of the USSR have a more ancient history than previously thought. As a rule, the nationality to which the author of the article belonged was declared ancient. By the end of the 80's, during perestroika, they came to the point where they declared, for example, russians to be descendants of the etruscans, and ukrainians were deduced from the people who lived on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR many thousand years ago. However, such bullshit was invented by literally everyone, from Armenians to Yakuts. By the nineties, the authors of such texts got to the point where they began to declare the Black Sea to be the work of the ancestors of Ukrainians, and Ukrainians themselves to be Aryans or Atlantis, and so on. It is clear that all this was anti-scientific crap of the right-wing, but it simply could not fail to become the basis for parodies.
This picture is one of such parodies. It's called "Ancient Rus[sian]".
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Sorry for the late reply, just came to the site after a while
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