Rus is small and great, or the word about the shelf

The book includes two historical and documentary essays. The first tells about the historical fate of Southern Russia, known as "Malaya Russia", "Little Russia", "Ukraine", "Ukraine-Rus". The role of various political forces is shown in the formation of the ideology of "Ukrainians" with the aim of cultural isolation of the population of small Russia from the Russian people and political opposition to it up to antagonism. In the second essay, the artificial nature of the opposition of Ukrainians and Russians is illustrated on the example of their military fraternity in the recent past. On the example of the eighty -year history of one air regiment, it shows how inextricably the personal fate and fate of the peoples of Malaya and Great Russia are inextricably linked. The publication is equipped with rich illustrative material. For a wide range of readers