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UPA - Ukrainian Insurgent Army. How they killed poles in Volhynia (1943). [139]
Polish culture had nothing to do with Kievan Rus.
So no one knows - exactly as I said, Sokrates.
No one is certain but there are indications that he came from Poland, we have his fathers name and surname ( which was originally Chmielnicki - polish ) as well as his coat of arms.
It is of course possible that he was natively ruthenian but its very unlikely given the context.
Actually yes it does, Kievan Rus fell mainly due to the faulty succession system after which it was taken over by polonized lithuanian elites and saw a major influx of polish settlers and clergy which ensured total polonization of the ruthenian nobility, by the 15 century the vast majority of the intellectuals of Ukraine were completely assimilated and had not a bit of ruthenian in them.
Tribes were running around what is now Poland when Kievan Rus' was a powerful country.
Kievan Rus was never a powerful country because it was very sparsely populated, granted it was quite strong and advanced but definitely not more advanced or very definitely not stronger than contemporary polish duchy and later kingdom on account of very very low population.
Check history on Ghinghis Khan and his grandson and the rest of its dynasty.
The only reason the mongols ever stopped was because of the death of Genghis Khan, it had nothing to do with any sort of resistance in Rus.
RP which never tasted Mongols.
Oh but we did, read up on battle of Legnica ( which we lost incidentally ).
What RP got to offer when Kopernicus (Prussian, by the way)
The same Kopernicus who defended Torun against Teutonic Knights and was polish as hell ?:)
Kievan Rus' was rich not only culturally and religiously.
Yes it was, i never said it wasnt.
you make me laugh - keep going. "civilization and culture were discontinued" - hahah- I know we where sitting on the trees and eating bananas when suddenly Polans came to bestow us with its so "rich culture" - haha
On the contrary, i never claimed Ruthenians didnt have any culture or civilization or that it was inferior, polish culture had two things, it was much more attractive and much more dynamic, those traits do not mean that it was better simply that it would be adopted over the native culture.
Just look at current american culture how its adopted worldiwde despite it being well...shitty, our culture and civilization was not better, it was simply much much more dynamic therefore it replaced the old ruthenian culture.
How he communicated with Cossacks then?
I imagine he learned quite early on, given that he occupied the official post in the local administration he would have to.
Polish are not able to learn Ukrainian. (Sounds rude, all the Polish I know and there are more than 10 say that my language is Russian - hahah , so I even don't want to start thinking that you can learn if you don't believe). Moreover, show me where it states that his language was Polish
Check professor Tarasiuk "Nowy czas" it contains quite an extensive work done on Chmielnicki, prof Stefan Tarasiuk is a Polish-Ukrainian so its hard to accuse him of bias.
