Andrea Chalupa: Ukraine’s founding fathers are over 1,000 years old
When someone says, well, didn’t Ukraine belong to this empire or that empire, so therefore why should they have their own country? It’s clear this person’s scope of history is limited. Some people tend to think that history began around the time they were born. They should stop and consider, for instance, that as countries go, America is practically a teenager: it’s only 238 years old. To put that in perspective, the groundbreaking of the Notre Dame was 851 years ago. The world’s oldest city, Jericho, was established around 9,000 BC. Civilization is believed to be 44,000 years old, and throughout the millennia, every generation, every tribe had their great beauties and their great wits. They’re all dust now, and we will be too someday, and hopefully a thousand years from now pundits won’t forget us. But they may, especially if they have a political or financial agenda.