"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." —Mark Twain (Khurana, 2017)

Watching the same news broadcast on TV on two different channels gives us a foretaste of how differently history will be told by different sides. Fox will broadcast what the President said; CNN will focus on how he stumbled down the ramp. Both sides are presenting “the truth,” what really did happen—but each side curates what is most advantageous to their particular worldview. That is “bias.” At times, however, different sides tell outright lies. That is “propaganda.” All we can do as investigators of the past is to work out which side distorted the truth less.

I will now take a closer look into the claims and counter-claims of Ukrainian nationalists and Russian imperialists. Then I will draw certain conclusions, which is where the discussion between historians begins.