Let me help you out, friend. You watch too many Hollywood movies which do not give a rat's *ss about its audience. First and foremost, Ukraine used to be the part of Russia 15,000 years ago, since then the two people of Russian and Ukranian descent fought each other and turned to be themselves someone's part alternately. For about 5,000 years ago, there was created a secret society called "Siberia". They were tired of their countries' disorder and wanted to cut that off. Many Russians and Ukranians corroborated the idea of peace and freedom and got together to dethrone their hated leaders. They finally succeded in it for about 1,000 years ago. But since they were secret society no one knows for sure that it were them who did it---stealthily but fortunate. And now We have named one of of the part of Russia in honour of them. It's called Siberia the Great.

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And you know what? I contacted Pravit, our respected specialist, and he was able to remember that he went to university with someone called John Smith once. And that feller appeared to be of half-Russian and half-Unkranian breed. So this indirectly points at the secret society "Siberia". It wasn't another bloody myth.