Posted on 06/30/2005 9:17:54 PM PDT by Destro
I am sure they will protect the southern border if they are anything like Taras Bulba.
OH COOL Destro
Seem that ole Vlad bring back some of Tsars's guards LOL!
Interesting...
This is far better treatment than than what was handed out by the Kremlin a few generations ago:
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:eHbRWBZvwxMJ:www.faminegenocide.com/commemoration/mace_ch3.html+cossack+famine&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
"It is now generally accepted that in 1932-1933 several million peasants-most of them Ukrainians living in Ukraine and the traditionally Cossack territories of the North Caucasus (now the Krasnodar, Stavropol, and Rostov on the Don regions of the Russian Federation) -- starved to death because the government of the Soviet Union seized with unprecedented force and thoroughness the 1932 crop and foodstuffs from the agricultural population (Mace, 1984; Conquest, 1986). "
Maybe you should tell the NY Times and Walter Duranty....
The Famine also affected Kazakhstan, and even the Moscow region too, at least to some degree. See The Black Book Of Communism. In other words, not just Ukrainians suffered, but other ethnic groups as well, like Kazakhs, Russians, and no doubt others.
Not true - the famine stopped at the Russian border and the
Russians still deny the benefits derived from stealing the breadbasket of europe to fund chandeliered subways for Duranty to ride in.
http://www.faminegenocide.com/resources/famine_map.html
"should it become law some 600,000 Cossacks will officially be able to guard the country's borders, support law and order, and even fight against terrorism."
Mounties who can kick some *%#!
Spanlot - learn to read a map - this is second time I have seen you post it and you were corrected then as well - the hardest famine hit areas in the Ukraine map of yours are populated by ethnic Russians. The Soviets hit the Russians the hardest of all since they feared ethnic nationalism rising in the largets ethnic block within the USSR.
The Zaporozhian Cossacks' Answer
to the Sultan of Constantinople (Guillaume Apollinaire)
You are a hundred times more criminal than Barabbas.
Living as the neighbor of Beelzebub,
You wallow in the most foul vices.
Fed on filth since childhood,
Know this: you'll celebrate your Sabbath without us.
Rotten cancer, Salonica's refuse,
A terrible nightmare which cannot be told,
One-eyed, putrid and noseless,
You were born while your mother
Was writhing in fecal spasms.
Evil butcher of Podolye, look:
You are covered in wounds, sores and scabs.
Rump of a horse, snout of a pig,
May all the drugs be found
For you to heal your ills!
The story goes that the Zaporozhian Cossacks were prisoners of the Sultan and this was their reply to his invitation to join his forces. They were duly brutally executed.
Dmitri Shostakovich composed a setting of this poem for his Fourteenth Symphony - it's even harsher in Russian...
Whatever you might think about the Cossacks, you have to admire that attitude.
Can someone help me on this, please?
Make up you mind - either I don't know how to see the border with Russia ( its easy - look for the red) or whatever it is you are claiming now?
No Ukrainians in Eastern Ukraine? Stalin had no problem finding them when he killed 10 million.
http://www.faminegenocide.com/resources/famine_map.html
The only reason there are so many Russians in Ukraine is because the Kremlin exported them after getting rid of 10 million Ukrainians.
Why do you continue to deny this?
PS What do you think about the growing Ukrainian nationalism amongst your so-called "Russian" Ukrainians
"Genocidal famine and collectivization were not limited to Ukraine, Cossacks got their share, too"
Yes - the Cossacks are the "Russians" that all the Kremlinphiles keep referring to. The Ukrainians, Cossacks and German fundamentalists were the principal victims of the Kremlins genocide in 1921, 1932.
http://colley.co.uk/garethjones/soviet_articles/holodomor_letters.htm
This latter was a BIG part of the ground swell of support for the young Hitler. People saw the NY TImes getting a Pulitzer for the cover up of the genocide of a half millkion of their own and they came to fear for their own lives. Don't forget, Communism was becoming well established in Germany at this time.
I had heard they liked to wrestle bears as training...guess any hairy creature will do in a pinch.
When I was young and in my natural prime (hey! that could go in a song!), I frequented a bar owned by a Cossack. His name was Kristof Botagov, and he had a ferocious, snow-white moustache. He used to joke about us getting married, running back to Russia and raising lots of little redheaded Cossacks! LOL! Those were sure the days!
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