Posted on 02/09/2024 5:18:44 PM PST by canuck_conservative
WIKI
The Kiev Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1471 until 1569 and of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1793, as part of Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown.
Its first administrative center was Kiev, but when the city was given to Imperial Russia in 1667 by Treaty of Andrusovo, the capital moved to Zhytomyr, where it remained until 1793.
It was the biggest voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by land area, covering, among others, the land of Zaporizhian Cossacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev_Voivodeship
>Russian literature is like the Russia in general—it just sucks your soul out trying to plod through it; 35 words to say what could be said in 5.<
Sounds like the posts written by certain bloviating zeepers.
I see you’re still behaving like a North Korea level zombie.
You almost sound hurt
Did your hero get criticized? lol
Hey, it’s not our fault he sucks in public performances ... maybe Vlady should have just stayed silent, now he’s been exposed
WIKI
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, or simply Poland–Lithuania, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. It was one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th- to 17th-century Europe.
The Commonwealth was established as a single entity by the Union of Lublin on 1 July 1569. The two nations had previously been in a personal union since the Krewo Agreement of 1385 and the subsequent marriage of Queen Jadwiga of Poland to Grand Duke Jogaila of Lithuania, who was crowned jure uxoris King of Poland. Their descendant, Sigismund II Augustus, enforced the merger to strengthen frontiers of his dominion and maintain unity as he remained childless. His death in 1572 marked the end of the Jagiellonian dynasty and introduced an elective monarchy, whereupon members of domestic noble families or external dynasties were elected to the throne for life.
The state possessed an idiosyncratic system of governance and its Golden Liberty placed controls upon monarchical authority, a precursor to modern concepts of democracy. Legislation was enacted by the General Sejm, a bicameral legislature (parliament) administered by the szlachta nobility, and the king was bound to comply with the constitutional principles dictated by the Henrician Articles. The country also maintained unprecedented levels of ethnic diversity and relative religious tolerance, guaranteed by the Warsaw Confederation Act of 1573, though the degree of religious freedom was not always uniform and varied over time. Poland acted the dominant partner in the union and imposed Polonisation and Catholicism across the large realm, which was met with resistance from minorities.
After several decades of prosperity, the Commonwealth entered a period of protracted political, military, and economic decline. Its growing weakness led to its partitioning among its neighbours, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, during the late 18th century. Shortly before its demise, the Commonwealth adopted a major reform effort and enacted the 3 May Constitution, which was the first codified constitution in modern European history and the second in modern world history after the United States Constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth
Cultures have different styles of literature.
Complaining that a culture’s style doesn’t meet your expectations is rather provincial.
South American magic realism does not particularly please my literary tastes. But I read them to gain insight into a different culture and thought.
Same for Russian French or German.
“What would things be like if Russia HAD been allowed into NATO? Now we might not ever know….”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Well, what usually happens once the worm in the apple?
What would a Canadian know about a Real Man like Reagan?
You are a wise one. It was important and affected many world views.
We are currently raising generations that cannot slog through anything.
Cannot apprehend complex information nor synthesize it.
So a brief half hour history lecture becomes overwhelming. And they lose the entire point of the discussion.
This explains the wife. She’s only half, but I wonder somedays. I know I’m quite hilarious, mostly looking, but still, and she’s not laughing.
Ethnic side note... :
And for those who hypocritically say Donbas deserves to be russian because its ethnically composed of a “majority of russians”...
Well here is the map that proves otherwise only 20 years ago! :
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Russians_Ukraine_2001.PNG
In the four Ukrainians regions Russia stole:
Region 1: 39% of ethnic Russians
Region 2: 38.2% of ethnic Russians
Region 3: 24.7% of ethnic Russians
Region 4: 14.1% of ethnic Russians
Only Crimea had 58% or Ethnic Russians... but only after the Kremlin decided to methodically deport scores of russians there during the Soviet era...
“What was the nationality of Adam and Eve?
-Russian of course. Why else would they think they’re in Paradise when they were homeless, naked, and just had one apple for both of them?
[in an era of KGB informants]
Two guys meet up in the street for the first time in a while. The first guy says:
“How are you?”
The second guy says:
“Oh, can’t complain.”
There’s a few more at:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/russian-jokes.58369/
For $500 dollars, and control of the board, “Who is Yaroslav Hunka”?
No mention
Of Boris Yeltsin
Libs war on Russia - Israel
Gog lib fatah usa
Magog lib fatah nato
Rev 13
Ps
Atta zeeper - freepers
Obombobots
You have a vivid imagination.
The line in the article I responded to was: "He’s a bore. A dangerous bore, but a bore nonetheless..."
My reply was "LOL! And the usurper that sits in the White House isn't dangerous?"
Please show me in my quote where I said what you claim I said.
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