Russophobic pseudo-historical myths were not born in one day or even in one century. Yes, many of them appeared when the Romanovs invited a group of German historians (Bayer, Miller, Schletzer) to rewrite Old Russian history, who were supposed to legitimize the not entirely Russian origin of this dynasty of Russian tsars. And I must say that together with the court historian Karamzin, they brilliantly coped with their task. But the reign of the Romanovs ended a hundred years ago. So why are Russophobic myths about "wild barbarians" who need "civilized" external management so tenacious? Indeed, both in the Soviet period and now - under "democratic" wild capitalism, all these myths still remain in our history textbooks.
Here is the answer given by the candidate of historical sciences Lydia Groth in her book "The Interrupted History of the Rus":
But now, the official historians are already beginning to make a fair verdict on the Russophobic pseudo-historical myths brought to us from outside. And now, thanks to one of them, it became clear the origin and origin of the pro-Western "Norman theory" so beloved by our historians, which in fact was never a theory, but was just an unproven hypothesis. Moreover, even in the more than once corrected list of PVL, it is said in this regard that Prince Rurik summoned from the earth to cheer up was the grandson of the Novgorod prince Gostomysl, and not some kind of stray Norman or light. Yes, and these Varangians are called unambiguously "Varangians-Rus". However, due to the above circumstances, the so-called. "Norman theory", which has nothing to do with the true history of our people, is still spelled out in our history textbooks.
I would also like to say a few words about the legendary arctic ancestral home of the white people - Hyperborea, which is also described in ancient Greek myths. And myths do not arise from scratch. This country of our great-ancestors and great-ancestors of the Scandinavians undoubtedly existed in very distant times near the North Pole. And, perhaps Sweden, as well as the Kola Peninsula, the north of the Arkhangelsk region and our Arctic islands were, though not the Arctida-Hyperborea itself, but the territory controlled by it, as evidenced by the various ancient megalithic structures and ancient labyrinths discovered, the true purpose of which is remembered only guardians of the arctic Orian tradition.