Why Imperial Historians Want You to Forget Kharkiv’s Real Story [Breaking the Myths]

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Kharkiv was founded in the 1650s by Ukrainian Cossacks.They were Sloboda Cossacks—rebels, frontiersmen, and refugees fleeing Polish and Muscovite pressure.

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Kharkiv isn't a museum piece, a leftover Soviet factory site, or an imperial frontier waiting to be "reclaimed." It is a city forged by Cossacks who hated tyranny, preserved by intellectuals who refused to let their language die, painted by street artists who refuse to live in the gray, and coded by badass engineers who build the future while the past tries to drag them down.