Is it true that Ukrainian school textbooks say that the Ukrainian language came from the planet Venus?

In November, while visiting an exhibition at Manege, Vladimir Putin was informed that Ukrainian school textbooks contain a statement about the alien origin of the Ukrainian language - as if it came from Venus. We decided to check whether there is such a theory in textbooks.

November 4 to Vladimir Putin in the Manege exhibition hall showed stand with excerpts from Ukrainian textbooks. The demonstration of the stand was accompanied by comments from the editor-in-chief of the “Russia - My History” project, Alexander Myasnikov. On video, which was then distributed by the Zvezda TV channel, this fragment of the conversation is given in full. “These textbooks simply shocked me when I learned that language is from Venus,” Myasnikov shares his discoveries with Putin. Putin grinned and asked again: “A tongue from Venus?” Myasnikov confirmed: “Yes, the tongue is from Venus. I thought it was a joke." Later this episode was retold by many publications, for example “Nezavisimaya newspaper" And "Gazeta.ru"

An excerpt from a Ukrainian book about the extraterrestrial origin of the Ukrainian language has been circulating on social networks for a long time. This fragment can be found in LiveJournal starting from 2003, it is repeated in the notes from 2009 And 2016 years. Everywhere it is presented in the same form: “Sanskrit is based on some mysterious language “sansar”, brought to our planet from Venus. Isn’t this about the Ukrainian language?” Also mentioned is quote Ukrainian journalist Grigory Kvasnyuk: “Do you know that the Ukrainian language was brought from Venus? Don't know, no? From Venus! Ukrainian scientists have proven this. And the textbooks write about this.” There are even video, where Kvasnyuk pronounces these words. However, if you study biography Kvasnyuk and watch the video carefully, it is obvious that he did not defend this version, but mocked it.

At the exhibition, the cameramen did not show a close-up excerpt from the textbook, which supposedly talked about the Ukrainian language and Venus. But this is not at all surprising: a request for this linguistic incident leads not to Ukrainian school textbooks, but to one specific book called “The Phenomenon of Ukraine.” It was written by psychologist Alexey Bratko-Kutynsky, and his work was published in 1995, after the death of the author.

In this book tells about the origin of Ukraine, the Ukrainian people and language. It sets out many amazing and completely unscientific theories: about the ancestral Aryan origin of Ukrainians and about the history of the language, which dates back hundreds of thousands of years. Astrology is considered in it as an effective tool for scientific research, ethnogenesis mixed with Taoism. The author cites theory about the presence of a force field that makes Ukraine the center of the inhabited Universe.

The book “The Phenomenon of Ukraine” has been reprinted several times, and it can be buy in Ukrainian online stores. But it was never a school textbook, and it was not possible to find quotations from it in existing textbooks. Most likely, the statement “the textbooks write about this” belongs to the same Kvasnyuk.

The fragment quoted in blogs and retold to Vladimir Putin actually exists in the book. In the 2008 edition it can be find on page 65:

Translated into Russian, this means the following: “According to the data given in the ancient book “Dzyan” (that is, “Knowledge”), Sanskrit is based on a certain mysterious language “sansar”, brought to our planet from Venus. Are we talking about the Ukrainian language? But this is already from the realm of mythology and fantasy. But the analysis of a living modern language provides completely real and unquestionable knowledge.”

Here it is unnecessary to comment on the authenticity of the book “Dzyan”, which she first mentioned in 1888 in her work “Secret Doctrine» theosophist and occultist Helena Blavatsky, as well as consider further linguistic theories of Bratko-Kutynsky. From the above fragment, it is obvious that even the author of the anti-scientific book does not seriously consider the alien theory of the origin of the Ukrainian language, emphasizing that it is “from the realm of mythology and fantasy.” And on blogs, quotes from the book are given in a truncated form. Thus, the phrase was given the appearance of a statement, which it is not in the original. That is, the statement “Some scientists believe that Sanskrit came from the Ukrainian language” would be about as true as the statement “Some Russian scientists believe that Yaroslav the Wise, Ivan Kalita and Khan Batu are the same person.” Namely such a theory is in popular, but pseudoscientific new chronology of academician Anatoly Fomenko. But the presence of a serious “Venusian” theory, and even in Ukrainian textbooks, is nothing more than a fake.

Thus, in the dialogue between Putin and Myasnikov there are several false statements at once. Firstly, the phrase about the extraterrestrial origin of the Ukrainian language was taken not from a textbook, but from one specific book. Secondly, the phrase itself is cut off and taken out of context, which changes its meaning to the opposite.

Cover photo: screenshot from a report by the Zvezda TV channel

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