Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse?

Even betterer for their white owners.
PS. Why are you taking the thread off topic??? It is illegal :):):)

What to a Russian is a casual discussion, is to a Pole a long party with food and alcohol. Makes sense.


Yes, back to topic... I agree with you - how can I hate myself? However, objectivity demands we apply a neutral framework here.

I would say, for most of human history - being a Slav was not fun. We were so far on the periphery, that we never experienced the Roman or Byzantine Empires in the same way the French, Germans, or Spanish did. For ages we were being kidnapped and sold into slavery by Turks, Greeks, Tatars. We acted as a meat cushion for the rest of Europe during Mongol invasion. We missed out on all the benefits of global trade, due to being locked up in the puddle people call the Baltic Sea, and being bottled up in the Black Sea. For centuries, there was almost nothing we contributed to science or art, instead being used as faceless masses of mercenaries by European despots.

However, starting in the middle of the 19th century the Age of Slavs had come. Long in the shadows - the time came to take center place. Now, I would not trade being a Slav for an Anglo in a thousand years.

And this history of ancient Slavs is deeply rooted in your mind and genes and prevents you from enjoying life as a Slav. :):):)

Explain.

Coz you sounded a bit melancholic with this ancient history of yours. And you mentioned a neutral framework. Neutral is in the middle so you are neither sad nor exhilarated.

If it has not been clear from my past 5 years of posting - I am a Pan-Slavist. Have been, since my grandfather indoctrinated me into it when I was very young. It's why I'm here, because I love Polish history - Siege of Vienna, Winged Hussars, and Kosciusko in America included.

Only later I started trolling, when my Russian genes woke up.

To Poles who know history - Russian Pan-Slavism is just a nice term for their inborn imperialism. Poles should stay away as much as possible from it because it is extremely dangerous. Vide: Russian Panslavism in action in Ukraine right now.

Yes, this is why in the 20th century we had more Ukrainians leading us than Russians.

Really? I only know about Kruschev.

@pawian

I guess you have not heard of Brezhnev, Chernenko, and Gorbachev.

I checked Chernenko. He was born in Siberia. :):):) Gorbachev was born in Russia with Russian Ukrainian roots.
Only Kruschev really counts.
Breżniew too.

So what? If I was born in Kazakhstan, am I Kazakh now?

So, prove that Chernenko was Ukrainian.:):)

Is "Chernenko" not enough for you? What Russian, or Belarusian has a name ending in "-Ko"? He is either a dirty Hohol or a Pole.

Sources say nothing about him being Ukrainian. I asked you to prove. Stop twisting and wriggling out. :):):)]


Plenty surnames ending with -ko in Russia. As well as -ski. Still ,they are pure Russians. :):):)

Here is an article in one of the largest newspapers in Russia, with an entire section titled: "The Ukrainian from Siberia".

His parents were born to Ukrainian settlers who moved to Siberia.

Source: aif.ru/amp/society/history/k_u_znachit_chernenko_istoriya_samogo_strannogo_lidera_sovetskogo_soyuza


Yeah, and they are Ukrainian or Polish on the patrilineal side.

His father was Ukrainian, mother native Siberian.


Ancient ancestry doesn` t make them foreigners - they are Russians.

was it you talking about ethnic Poles? If you did, what kind of animal are you? Some facist, racist freak? Left, progressive main idological BS creek?

Can`t you see???? It is easy - read my nick.


Stop this self-promotion. :):):)


Creek??? I know creeks in geography but what does it mean about animals???