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I just had a Ukrainian-Canadian tell me Russian is not Slavic but Finnic/Turkic/aSiAtiC hOrDes. There's a difference between opposing Putin and denying linguistic reality. Sorry, but linguistics doesn't care about your feelings about Putin.

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[–] durduramayacaklar@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

Tatar Yoke! I've seen it millions times

[–] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 15 hours ago

I would be tempted to ask if their grandchildren will forgive them for venerating Bandera.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 28 points 23 hours ago

i love how they just casually throw finns under the bus there. whiteness, what a concept!

[–] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 1 day ago

I just had a Ukrainian-Canadian tell me Russian is not Slavic but Finnic/Turkic/aSiAtiC hOrDes. There’s a difference between opposing Putin and denying linguistic reality.

Translation:

They're not really white. Unlike us.

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 day ago

I mean Russia is a gigantic country with many different kinds of people so it doesn't matter what they think. Slapping a label on it is only for racist purposes.

[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Once met a Polish nationalist who unironically thought Russians were Swedes LARPing as Slavs and using the Rurikids & the origins of Novgorod as evidence.

Racism really does make you dumb.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 21 hours ago

Some Polish chuds and historians would love to have the dynasty be descendants of vikings, but the only thing they have is misread of one of oldest documents issued by Mieszko I which actually says "I, Duke Mieszko" but they read it as "Law of Dagome".

If anything, it was in the other way, since Mieszko's daughter Świętosława, married first Eric the Victorious and next Swein Forkbeard and she was the mother of Cnut the Great.

[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Well, according to Polish nobility's own mythology, Poles are not Slavs either, they're Sarmatians descended from... Iran (funny how the concept of Aryan has the same geographical roots, totally unrelated... or is it?).

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

And Ustaše claimed that Croatians were descendants of Goths. I sense a pattern here.

Their contemporary sympathizers also push pseudoscientific Iranian origin theory.