Message from @National Trotskyist
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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.
Isn't the Russian Caucus Dagestan
and Checnya
Dagestan, Chechnya, etc.
Yep.
those are hellholes
so no wonder
Russia bombed the shit out of those
Putin was busy stabilizing that region, when Bush started the War on Terror
that's why Russia and the US were on good terms till the War in Ossetia
Bush and Putin got along
it was at this time that Dugin started formulating a lot of his modern theories
also
Wow, didn't knew that.
The Tsarnaevs that did the Boston Bombing were from Dagestan
Yep.
Oh wait.
I thought they were Chechens?
it was funny I was in college when the news of that came on and I instantly knew where Dagestan was because, its in Empire Total War
Lol.
Dagestan is pretty... Weird.