Aggressors may deliberately and systematically disseminate a narrative that an Indigenous people is not a distinct nation but merely a regional or wayward branch of the metropole's people. Constructing a false myth of a single common root allows the aggressor to declare the political independence of the colonized society a historical misunderstanding and to justify any violent actions as a natural process of "reunification."
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| C0067 | All-Russian Census and the Erasure of Identity (1897) |
Official recording of Ukrainians exclusively as "Little Russians" (a subgroup of the Great Russian tribe) during the first general census, aimed at the bureaucratic destruction of the notion of a separate people[1]. |
| C0053 | Creation of a Single "Soviet People" (1958–1970) |
An ideological directive to erase nations: «the new party program on the 'merging of nations' into a single Soviet people»[2]. |
| S0009 | Diplomacy |
The introduction of strict political censorship. Under threat of punishment, the population was forbidden even to say aloud that their lands constituted a separate state entity: "and let no one utter such voices, that the Little Russian land is of the hetman's regiment"[3]. |
| S0008 | Government |
A course toward the complete absorption and destruction of the very name of the Cossack state. The empire sought "to eradicate the Zaporozhian Host of the Lower Dnipro and erase its name forever... to enslave the entire Little Russian people to itself forever"[3][4]. |
| S0008 | Government |
Official refusal to recognize the language and identity: "There was no Ukrainian language, there is none, and there cannot be one, and whoever does not understand this is an enemy of Russia"[2]. |
| S0008 | Government |
Ideological justification of the censor's refusal: "writing back to the author that there was no need to permit for printing a grammar of a language doomed to nonexistence"[2]. |
| S0008 | Government |
An ideological directive to erase nations: «the new party program on the 'merging of nations' into a single Soviet people»[2]. |
| S0008 | Government |
Official recording of Ukrainians exclusively as "Little Russians" (a subgroup of the Great Russian tribe) during the first general census, aimed at the bureaucratic destruction of the notion of a separate people[1]. |
| C0011 | Integration Reforms of Peter I and the Great Northern War (1700–1708) |
A course toward the complete absorption and destruction of the very name of the Cossack state. The empire sought "to eradicate the Zaporozhian Host of the Lower Dnipro and erase its name forever... to enslave the entire Little Russian people to itself forever"[3][4]. |
| C0007 | Kolomak Articles (1687) |
The introduction of strict political censorship. Under threat of punishment, the population was forbidden even to say aloud that their lands constituted a separate state entity: "and let no one utter such voices, that the Little Russian land is of the hetman's regiment"[3]. |
| S0011 | Moscow Patriarchate |
Within the framework of the new Muscovite state ideology, a deliberate erasure of a separate Ukrainian identity began. The author constructs a false myth of unity: he "tailors history to the scenario he needs in order to substantiate that Kyiv is directly related to Moscow"[4]. |
| S0021 | Propaganda |
Use of monumental propaganda and celebrations of the Pereiaslav Council to impose the concept of a "single people" and to deny an independent Ukrainian identity[4]. |
| C0006 | Publication of the "Synopsis" (1674) |
Within the framework of the new Muscovite state ideology, a deliberate erasure of a separate Ukrainian identity began. The author constructs a false myth of unity: he "tailors history to the scenario he needs in order to substantiate that Kyiv is directly related to Moscow"[4]. |
| G0009 | Russian Empire |
Official refusal to recognize the language and identity: "There was no Ukrainian language, there is none, and there cannot be one, and whoever does not understand this is an enemy of Russia"[2]. |
| G0009 | Russian Empire |
Ideological justification of the censor's refusal: "writing back to the author that there was no need to permit for printing a grammar of a language doomed to nonexistence"[2]. |
| G0009 | Russian Empire |
Official recording of Ukrainians exclusively as "Little Russians" (a subgroup of the Great Russian tribe) during the first general census, aimed at the bureaucratic destruction of the notion of a separate people[1]. |
| C0047 | The Ems Ukaz and Total Censorship (1876–1887) |
Ideological justification of the censor's refusal: "writing back to the author that there was no need to permit for printing a grammar of a language doomed to nonexistence"[2]. |
| C0087 | The Ideological Campaign of the "300th Anniversary of Reunification" and the Transfer of Crimea (1954) |
Use of monumental propaganda and celebrations of the Pereiaslav Council to impose the concept of a "single people" and to deny an independent Ukrainian identity[4]. |
| C0046 | The Valuev Circular: Ban on the Language and Schools (1862–1869) |
Official refusal to recognize the language and identity: "There was no Ukrainian language, there is none, and there cannot be one, and whoever does not understand this is an enemy of Russia"[2]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
Within the framework of the new Muscovite state ideology, a deliberate erasure of a separate Ukrainian identity began. The author constructs a false myth of unity: he "tailors history to the scenario he needs in order to substantiate that Kyiv is directly related to Moscow"[4]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
The introduction of strict political censorship. Under threat of punishment, the population was forbidden even to say aloud that their lands constituted a separate state entity: "and let no one utter such voices, that the Little Russian land is of the hetman's regiment"[3]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
A course toward the complete absorption and destruction of the very name of the Cossack state. The empire sought "to eradicate the Zaporozhian Host of the Lower Dnipro and erase its name forever... to enslave the entire Little Russian people to itself forever"[3][4]. |
| G0010 | USSR |
An ideological directive to erase nations: «the new party program on the 'merging of nations' into a single Soviet people»[2]. |
| G0010 | USSR |
Use of monumental propaganda and celebrations of the Pereiaslav Council to impose the concept of a "single people" and to deny an independent Ukrainian identity[4]. |