"Call it Russia!"

“Never mention that Russian princes collected taxes and delivered them personally to Mongol khans. Erase all references to Russia as an ulus of the Mongol empire!” Catherine the Great instructed Duke Shuvalov.

“But, Mother Empress, we have collected so many documents from Germany, France, Italy, China, and even Japan where Russia is called Moksel or Moskovite Princedom! As you ordered, we scouted them all over the world. We also have documents from Rus itself saying that Moksels are not the Slavic but Finnish tribes!”

“I thought Peter the Great destroyed them all?”

“Our Great Father Emperor Peter knew what history means. He only ‘copied’ the Konigsberg Chronicles to fake unification of the Kievan Rus and the Moscovite Kingdom, calling the ‘new’ land Russia. His genius was in taking the name ‘Rus’ away from Kiev and bestowing it onto Moscow as the new capital. But he did not dare to alter or destroy the originals.”

“Did you collect everything saying what true Rus was?”

“Yes, Mother.”

“Will it be possible to change Moksel to Russia?”

“No, Mother.”

“Then destroy everything and write a new history of Russia!”

And this, my friends, was the greatest heist: Hijacking Ukrainian people's identity and history.