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Cossack, aren't Cossacks, Eastern Europeans though?
@National Trotskyist yeah
Timur was "the product of an islamized and iranized society", and not steppe nomadic
Cossacks are Eastern European Ukro-Russian group, but they colonised Caucasus, Siberia and Far East if I remember right.
yeah Ukraine sounds right
I used to think they were Kazakhs, lol
long ago
Yeah I think the word source is similar.
Qazak - Turkic for Freeman.
A Russian told me they find that very insulting
when people make that mistake
Lole.
Cossacks used to speak their own dialect, called balachka.
I am Cossack related
Ikr
And I have 1 or two Georgian relatives
https://youtu.be/b3A1HPmLNK0?t=189 These girls are Uzbek
@Deleted User Oh what kind of Georgian
just regular
or Abkhazian/Ossetian?
Stalin was actually from an Ossetian group, and Ossetians are Iranic, and also mixed into Hungary and Croatia
Alexander Slavros of Ironmarch mentioned that Stalin was an Ossetian thing.
In his ethnic-make up of the Soviet regime post, I wish I archived it.
nice
Yeah Ossetians also have a big partipication in the Uatsdin, last surviving Pagan Iranic religion.
Some IronMarch books were good, but I hate the American Futurist shit
As they see Orthodoxy as associated with Gruzians or Russians.
Oh, never knew that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uatsdin
Check this, I learned of that from Dugin.
the ones in S.Ossetia rebelling in 2008
were all Orthodox
I know Russia has at times tried to suppress regional identities though like Armenian for example, despite usually be close
What I find strange is how many freaking Russians are there in Armenia, Gruzia or Azerbaijan.
But practically none in the Russian Caucasus.
Where it's a place like Tuva, they're afraid to go to and still majority native.
Is Tuva, Muslim, that'd explain it
Also the Alans come from Ossetia and they are part of the composition of the Iberian peoples
Tuva is Tibetan Buddhist and Shamanist.
Sergei Shoigu is half-Tuvan half-Russian, which is why he have such a non-Russian surname.
Tuva was traditionally associated with Mongolia and is claimed into Greater Mongolia.
Isn't the Russian Caucus Dagestan