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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRule # 1 do not get into a fight whose people looked like this (cossack)
Dont fuck with the Cossacks .
We will lay our soul and body for the cherished freedom.
Cossack blood will raise the nation of the joyous people. Ukraine Anthem
or their grandmothers talk like this.
bucolic_frolic
(43,287 posts)liberalla
(9,260 posts)I fervently hope Zelensky is still there to lead them forward.
Botany
(70,582 posts)* I know that there are ethnic Russians in the Crimea and that they have been there
for generations and I hope they are protected and can stay there if the Russian troops
are driven out.
Zelensky: "The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride," Zelensky told the US, according to the embassy.
msfiddlestix
(7,286 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)as far as I'm concerned. They were shipped in when Stalin essentially ethnically cleansed Crimea of its indigenous Tatar population.
calimary
(81,466 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,347 posts)Botany
(70,582 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,347 posts)The problem is, in a shooting war a little guy with a gun is just as dangerous as these Giants.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Little guys make smaller targets.
mitch96
(13,924 posts)in Eastern Europe.. Not nice guys...
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https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1919-cossacks-start-pogrom-in-ukraine-1.5404243
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossack_riots
wartime fervour is one thing, history is another.
DFW
(54,437 posts)There is a many-versed traditional song about their folk hero, Stenka Razin.
It's about a guy who was little more than a brutal Volga River marauder. In the song, he marries a noble princess, and quickly there is dissent in the ranks. His crew grumbles that he spent only one with her and became a woman himself. Stenka Razin hears this. Claiming he would give his head for the cause, he decides that, so there will be no conflict among free people, he sings out, "Volga, Volga, mother river, have you ever seen a present from a Don Cossak?" Whereupon he tosses his beautiful new bride overboard into the fast-running waves of the Volga.
«Волга, Волга, мать родная
Волга русская река
Не видала ты подарка
От донского казака!
Чтобы не было раздора
Между вольными людьми
Волга, Волга, мать родная
На, красавицу прими!»
Мощным взмахом поднимает
Он красавицу княжну
И за борт ее бросает
В набежавшую волну
And the Teabaggers think THEY are the "don't tread on me" crowd. The Cossacks would use Teabaggers for teabags.
jaxexpat
(6,849 posts)He shot Tony Curtis right through his armor. Tony just stood there, a Polish sympathizer. That has nothing to do with anything, I know.
BumRushDaShow
(129,457 posts)jaxexpat
(6,849 posts)A very un-Tumpian concept.
BumRushDaShow
(129,457 posts)like the Cecil B. DeMille extravaganzas (although he had died before that was made)... given the current events.
jaxexpat
(6,849 posts)The original CBD oil salesman.
chowder66
(9,080 posts)jaxexpat
(6,849 posts)He shot Tony Curtis right through his armor. Tony just stood there, a Polish sympathizer. That has nothing to do with anything, I know.
uppityperson
(115,679 posts)mitch96
(13,924 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)ret5hd
(20,518 posts)I Love This Thread!
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,433 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,286 posts)I've just learned to play it, and also transposed to Dm - a friend sent this on our local email list..
Botany
(70,582 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,286 posts)Those harmonies sends chills in a good way and tears..
thank you. reminds me of Welsh singers, who's musical cultural instrument is essentially the Voice, along with the harp.
But this is quite the find. thank you!
Botany
(70,582 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,239 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,755 posts)So to a Jew like me, that word has different meaning.
Jilly_in_VA
(9,995 posts)They are not an ethnicity. They are more like a gang than anything else, and basically any Russian, Belarusian, or Ukrainian male can become one, but once you're in, you're in, and all your descendants after you. There are rather brutal initiation rites, apparently. They pride themselves on their fighting and riding ability and most (not all) are devoutly religious (surprised? They held on to the church through Communist years.). The tsars had Cossack bodyguards. So does Putin (I learned that from my priest, who learned it from Putin's first wife's priest). It's very possible that Zelenskyy does too. They don't dress in traditional clothing any more except for exhibitions and parades.