Otto von Bismarck:
“The power of Russia can only be undermined by the separation of Ukraine from it … it is necessary not only to tear away, but also to oppose Ukraine to Russia, set the two parts of a single nation against each other and watch as a brother kills his brother. To do this, you just need to find and nurture traitors among the national elite and with their help change the self-consciousness of one part of the great people to such an extent that they will hate everything Russian, hate their kind, without realizing it. Everything else is a matter of time."
Prince Otto von Bismarck, called in 1862 by King William I to the post of Minister-President of Prussia, after 9 years received practically unlimited power as the Imperial Chancellor. But long before that, from 1859 to 1862, von Bismarck was the German ambassador to Russia, so he knew the Russians quite well and, being a talented person, he understood what the strength of the Russians was and what their weakness was. Bismarck also understood that the Russians could not be defeated with weapons, and therefore, when planning Germany's strategy, the Chancellor devoted much effort to an ideological war.
In fact, it was he, Otto von Bismarck, who was behind the idea of creating Ukraine and admitted that the term "Ukraine" was very appealing to him. On Bismarck's maps, Ukraine stretched from Saratov and Volgograd in the northeast to Makhachkala in the south. The program of Ukrainization was launched by Austria-Hungary at the end of the 19th century, and this was based on the re-identification of Little Russians and Galician Rusyns into the so-called “Ukrainians”.
By the way, neither the "moderate" Russophobe Taras Shevchenko, nor the "terry" Lesya Ukrainka have such terms as "Ukrainian", "Ukrainian nation", but there are Slavs, Little Russians, Rusyns. But von Bismarck's plans began to be implemented and, according to the 1908 census, up to 1% of the inhabitants of the south-west of Russia called themselves Ukrainians. In Germany, it was "scientifically proven" that the Russians were not Slavs and not even Aryans (although the tribes from which the Germans and Slavs emerged are called Slavic-Germanic tribes), but representatives of a certain Mongol-Finnish tribe, "Mankruts". In 1898, the idea of creating an "independent Ukrainian nation" within the framework of autonomy on the territory of Austria-Hungary was launched in Germany.
In the press controlled by Vienna, instead of the concepts "Rus", "Rusky", the terms "Ukraine", "Ukrainian", etc. began to be replicated. In the memoirs of General Hoffmann in 1926, one can read: the result of the activities of my intelligence”.
And here is the opinion of the French consul Emile Hainaut (1918): “Ukraine has never had its own history and national distinctiveness. It was created by the Germans. The pro-German government of Skoropadsky must be liquidated. The French side - an ally of the Russians in the 1st World War - is easy to understand, because the so-called Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR), in fact, from the moment of its creation, has become a servant of the owner, Germany, in matters of strategic provision of the Germans with food and industrial raw materials, as well as a place of deployment armed forces of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
“The power of Russia,” wrote Bismarck, “can only be undermined by the secession of Ukraine from her … it is necessary not only to tear away, but also to oppose Ukraine to Russia, set the two parts of a single people against each other and watch as a brother kills his brother. To do this, you just need to find and nurture traitors among the national elite and with their help change the self-consciousness of one part of the great people to such an extent that they will hate everything Russian, hate their kind, without realizing it. Everything else is a matter of time."
Von Bismarck was caring for his German people and planned Ukraine (the outskirts) as a buffer territory, a fence of the lands of Austria-Hungary and Germany from Russia, since “the Russians always beat the Prussians,” although - it is worth focusing on this - they were not the first to get involved in wars.
That is why the Ukrainian language, artificially created on the basis of Russian, Polish, Hungarian and several other languages, turned out to be so "harmonious". It was intended that way.
In general, the notorious "Dulles plan" was initiated by Otto von Bismarck, although in his time there was nothing fundamentally new here: to break the tribe (family, people) into estates, play them off, weaken them in every possible way, enslave …
