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Taras Bulba - the movie [115]
You didn't understand my statements. I didn't mean the turmoils of Russian civil war in 20 century. I want to repeat that Cossaks were most rebellious and troublesome pseudo-nation.
It had nothing in common either with Russians or Ukrainians, except religion may be. They were a artificial mixture of fugitives, that is why all Cossaks territories laid in most distant and inaccessible parts (Dnepr, Don, Yaik or Ural). They had caused many problems and disturbances to Russian goverment in those times. Just remember Razin's and Pugachev's uprisings! Who they were? Certainly they were Cossaks! But unlike Poles, Russian goverment eventually found the way to apply Cossak's desire to fight. I can't say that Russian gov was genius, just it had vast unexplored territories. In this connection you should recollect Yermak Timofeevich and Semen Dezhnev, certainly they were Cossaks too. Eventually Russian gov managed to calm down the Cossak's spirit directing it against Turkish possessions in Caucasia.
