What is Ukraine and where it comes from.

[100% Wolf]

still here
I order you to keep posting on Apolyton

[MrFun]

I order you to keep posting on Apolyton

Nice going, Wolf.

[Serb]

still here
I order you to keep posting on Apolyton

As a good Christian I should say - f*ck you, you f*cking Satan f*ck, and f*ck your deceitful tongue.

[Ben Kenobi]

Yeah, good Christians sack and kill other Christians just because they can. How long before the Patriarch of the East excoms all of you?

[regexcellent]

Wait a second, it seems wolfy was here 6 years ago. What is your real name, puppy?

He wasn't; he's been around since 2010 or so and previously posted as gribbler before re-registering.

[Dr Strangelove]

Yeah, good Christians sack and kill other Christians just because they can. How long before the Patriarch of the East excoms all of you?

Well, there was the Teutonic Order....

Cossacks were local war bands formed in the area that's now the Ukraine and Southern Russia to resist the Tatars of Crimea and the Golden Horde, who were in control of those areas at the time. Both the Crimean Tatars and the Golden Horde liked to raid their own territory for slaves, the Cossacks were Ukrainean / Russian peasants who organised, formed themselves into separate military communities and fought back against the slave raids.

"Rusyn" and "Ruthenian" are simply the Polish and Austro-Hungarian terms for Russian minorities within their borders.

Oh Golly! Did I forget to mention the Albigensian Crusade? You'll have to forgive my age.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

In ex YU, and in the follow up states, Rusyn is a distinct "nationality", neither Russian or Ukrainian. They are too small now, one of those "distinct" cultures which did not have a center around which to rally. They have a different language (slavic) and different customs, and are not identifying themselves with either, even though their chance at any kind of legal status is gone in home country, as they are too few in number and they are on the way to dissapear into Ukrainian identity most likely (the ones at home).

btw - watched a local doc on their population here, about few thousand only.

[Serb]

He wasn't; he's been around since 2010 or so and previously posted as gribbler before re-registering.

That name sounds familiar.

[Ben Kenobi]

In ex YU, and in the follow up states, Rusyn is a distinct "nationality", neither Russian or Ukrainian. They are too small now, one of those "distinct" cultures which did not have a center around which to rally. They have a different language (slavic) and different customs, and are not identifying themselves with either, even though their chance at any kind of legal status is gone in home country, as they are too few in number and they are on the way to dissapear into Ukrainian identity most likely (the ones at home).

Umm, they are Galicians per se, and are Catholic and aren't Ukrainian at all.

[ColdWizard]

That name sounds familiar.

He made rude comments about the importance of the IIHF.

[Fake Boris]

Wait a second, it seems wolfy was here 6 years ago. What is your real name, puppy?

Gribbler

[Fake Boris]

Best necromancy in a long while

[Joseph]

That name sounds familiar.

They still let you post here?.

[Serb]

Boris, Joseph.

They still let you post here?.

That surprises me a lot. I should have been permabanned long time ago.

[molly bloom]

Finally something I can agree with Ben about...

No, good Christians find a really important reason- like the existence or otherwise, of the Trinity. That's what did for Michael Servetus when the Calvinists and the Roman Catholic Church ganged up to imprison him and execute him.

Michael Servetus (c.1506-October 27, 1553), a Spaniard martyred in the Reformation for his criticism of the doctrine of the trinity and his opposition to infant baptism, has often been considered an early unitarian. Sharply critical though he was of the orthodox formulation of the trinity, Servetus is better described as a highly unorthodox trinitarian. Still, aspects of his thinking—his critique of existing trinitarian theology, his devaluation of the doctrine of original sin, and his fresh examination of biblical proof-texts—did influence those who later inspired or founded unitarian churches in Poland and Transylvania. Public criticism of those responsible for his execution, the Reform Protestants in Geneva and their pastor, John Calvin, moreover, stirred proto-unitarians and other groups on the radical left-wing of the Reformation to develop and later institutionalize their own heretical views. Widespread aversion to Servetus’s death has been taken as signaling the birth in Europe of the idea of religious tolerance, a principle now more important to modern Unitarian Universalists than antitrinitarianism. Servetus is also celebrated as a pioneering physician. He was the first European to publish a description of the blood’s circulation through the lungs.

http://uudb.org/articles/michaelservetus.html