Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Bohdan believes that before 1917 the population of Ukraine was 70 million people. He said this on the political talk show «Freedom of Speech».
According to Bohdan, the country's population declined when «Ukrainians were deprived of the right to own land».
«...they went to Canada, the USA, Brazil, Argentina, Poland. They raised the whole world. All these countries became agrarian. They are all proud that Ukrainians own land there», — said Bohdan.
In fact, the maximum number of people living in Ukraine was in 1993. At that time, the country's population was 52.24 million people.
Earlier this week Bohdan showed a photo with knocked-out teeth after the «fight» with Bakanov.