Sandworm
Russia and Ukraine trace the origins of their two civilizations to a common ancestor, the flourishing medieval state of Kyivan Rus. That kingdom, growing around Kyiv from the tenth century AD, became an eastern outpost of European culture after its king Volodymyr somewhat arbitrarily decided to convert his people from paganism to Orthodox Christianity. Ukrainians like to point out that his son Yaroslav the Wise built Kyiv’s iconic St. Sophia Cathedral in 1037, when Moscow was little more than a forest by the Volga River. (Location 731)
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. (Location 1206)