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.

[MOBIUS]

Yeah, good Christians sack and kill other Christians just because they can.

Finally something I can agree with Ben about...

[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.