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2022-06-11 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Cossack general: The Cossacks are determined to win - good over evil

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Posted by badanov 2022-06-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Isn't it really like less evil over more evil, like much of real history?

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-11 08:27|| 2022-06-11 08:27|| Front Page Top

#2 "Returning to history, the Cossack general recalled that the Don and Zaporozhye Cossacks, of their own free will, in 1642 took the Turkish fortress of Azov and asked Tsar Mikhail Romanov to include it in Russia ."

As the direct descendent of Zaparozhian hetmen I can attest that that last bit is .... not quite how things happened. But whatever - go for it.

This will resonate with some young Russian men who have been looking for purpose and identity. Cossack martial arts training camps have attracted some of them, for understandable reasons in a country with high drug abuse rates and shockingly low lifespan expectations of late.

Posted by lotp 2022-06-11 13:13|| 2022-06-11 13:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Lots of crap about past Russian glory while they invade a country that was never a threat to them and threaten everyone on their borders.

No wonder Russians drink themselves to death. Their leadership offers them no future beyond endless war.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-06-11 13:23|| 2022-06-11 13:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Red Sonja eat your heart out.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-11 15:24|| 2022-06-11 15:24|| Front Page Top

#5 On rereading, the thought occurs: this sounds curiously lot like All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-11 15:41|| 2022-06-11 15:41|| Front Page Top

#6 …not quite how things happened.

So sparely said, lotp.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-11 15:51|| 2022-06-11 15:51|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ better and more concise than I

Posted by Frank G 2022-06-11 19:30|| 2022-06-11 19:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Indeed. So exceedingly politely.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-11 22:44|| 2022-06-11 22:44|| Front Page Top

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