The Cossacks: The Brave Warriors of Ukraine and Russia - See U in History

The Cossacks: The Brave Warriors of Ukraine and Russia
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[@garyel828]

Could we make a classic cowboy movie following a group of Cossacks and call it an Eastern?

[@DanielGarcia-zk2mw]

Yes

[@magoodada]

I see what you did there and i support it!

[@ericjill8024]

They did that, I think Charles brownson stared in a few

[@napolien1310]

What about the Spanish/Mexican Vaqurro, they were the original Cowboys if I'm not mistaken.

[@ericjill8024]

@@napolien1310 Spain is considered a western country

[@catnap387]

The Russian cossacks served the Russian Tsar. The Ukrainian cossacks served their own autonomous interests in the Ukrainian regions where they held control

[@ghstly2000]

Cossacks were Ukrainian and some were polish russia has no history.🇺🇦🇵🇱 cossack means free man why would they live under tsar ruling

[@catnap387]

@@ghstly2000 The Don Cossacks and other cossacks in Moscovia were not the kind of "free" cossacks that were on Ukraine's territory. The cossacks of Moscovia served the Tsar. The term cossack was a name given to a fighting man and the word was derived from the Turkish word for "free man" Later Russia adopted the term for some of its regiments. The original term of cossack in Ukraine was different to the Russian understanding of the term.

[@CN-gk9si]

@@ghstly2000 so try.. mix of god knows who.

[@rmp7400]

Good idea to listen to the historical video again....just sayin'...

[@achatcueilleur5746]

The Russian cossacks never existed. Cossacks are not dogs to serve hence the name.

[@Eddiedjvendetta]

Their sword skills are extremely deadly, I had never seen anything like it here on KZbin. I can see why they are feared.

[@paulsimonon7944]

they do a weild that stops arrows

[@TheRon0515]

wow beautiful story of Cossacks. hope they will make movies about Cossacks. interesting...

[@KozakDio]

Hello, I am a Cossack myself from the Semerichiye host in Kazakhstan. There are some few mistakes you made in the video and maybe suggestions for the future I would like to clear; 1. The word Cossack = Kazak, Kozak of Kozac means free man in Slavic and Turkic languages. The word you used “Kazakh” is an ethnic group of people in Kazakhstan which shouldn’t be confused with Kazak. 2. You forgot to mention yermak, the first Siberian Cossack who conquered Siberia. 3. Also you forgot to mention many other hosts who played huge roles such as Kuban host, Terek or tersk host, Ural host, transbaikal host, Siberian host, Astrakhan host, Orenburg host, Ussuri host, Semerichiye host and a few more. 4. The haircut you referred to is called a “hohol” a national haircut for Ukrainian Cossacks aka zaporozhian Cossacks. The rest of the hosts did not use this haircut but did grow out their beards. 5. In the civil war, Cossacks fought on both red and white side. 6. You forgot to mention that zaporozhian Cossack were deported to the Black Sea and that’s how the Kuban host formed once they were transferred to the Caucasus. 7. It would’ve been very appreciated to discuss about our traditional clothing such as the cherkeska (also known as the chokha) (this applies to some hosts, not all) and our hats, papakhas, Kubankas and furazhkas (some of these caps were worn specifically by some hosts) 8. You should definitely talk about the Cossack dialects also known as Balachka (for Ukrainians) and don gytor (Russian one) Thank you for reading this. I still enjoyed your video, but i just needed to clear some of your mistakes and things that were very important to say, but were missing.

[@AVS17645thRCR]

Also seemed to miss that no one can claim us as a mixed group we came from the Caucasus I’m Terek kazak we’re are our own ethnicity not mutts !

[@varusagredchenko9473]

@@miceatah9359 True

[@250tsar]

^^

[@Mikael.Lehrmann.Kashlev]

Well said, I did also miss the fact about our elective system (rada). For exampel the atamans and the diferents resolutions that where pased. But great to see peopel hava an interesst in our culture. Greatings from the Don Host.

[@louisecorchevolle9241]

I think this video is russophobic I did not hear about Peiraslav and Khelemnesky

[@-VOR]

As a Don cossack myself... you got A LOT wrong here guy.

[@vitaliybond2660]

Your not a cossack

[@-VOR]

@@vitaliybond2660 lol sure thing guy

[@vMufasa]

completely agree as this video tries to box them into one century and completely ignores the whole 400 years they had their own state...

[@nazar_lepskyi]

Cossacks were warriors of Ukraine. Empress of Russia Katherina The Second destroyed Chortomlyn Sich (the last Sich in Ukraine).

[@ilja7708]

there were mostly russian, there was no „ukraine“ back then

[@nazar_lepskyi]

@@ilja7708 Who are you talking about? There were Zaporozhian Cossacks, Cossacks of Don and Cossacks of Cuban (heirs of Zaporozhian Cossacks). The Zaporozhian Cossacks were ukranians who rebel against Commonwealth, fought Turkey and defeted Moscowia in Battle of Konotop in 29.06.1659.

[@alekshukhevych2644]

@@ilja7708 Even the Don Cossacks did not consider themselves Russian. Let alone the Zaporozhians lol. The Russian brainwashing is strong with this one.

[@catnap387]

@@ilja7708 Ilja Zaporizhian cossacks had organised themselves when your demonic Ivan Grozny was creating death and destruction in wooden Moscow and did not know where Kyiv was on the map!! There was no Russia then but little backward Moscovia!

[@mayadot7604]

There was Ukraine back then However, there was no russia then Only moscovia

[@Churche]

Cossacks have never lived or lived on the territory of Russia, but they worked and lived under their flags, but this is all the same as saying that Russia is the 3rd Rome because they have the territory of the Roman Empire

[@filipmujkovic]

2:32 is actually the Serbian people's army fighting Turks in one of the battles during the First Serbian Uprising in 1804. The guy in black, on the horse, is Karadjordje (Black Georgie) Petrovic, the leader of the uprising. Anyway, this is an amazing video.

[@filipmujkovic]

Right. He led the First Serbian Uprising, which started in 1804.

[@hiloluu9306]

I've been watching this channel for so long, I forgot when I started! Hope you enjoy your much well deserved million!

[@endlessnoodle3056]

Calling cossacks Russian is the same as saying Irish people are basically English.

[@catnap387]

Totally agree

[@mayadot7604]

Moscovites are desperate for greatness of others Mistake is deliberate

[@Horrormaster13]

Yup

[@endlessnoodle3056]

@wise littl goat silence, petuh

[@varusagredchenko9473]

Thank you.

[@romansochacki7678]

Did not even mention the Khemlnytsky Uprising! That was a pivotal event for the Zaporozhian Cossacks. And they were more associated with the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth since they literally lived on thier land.

[@e.r7228]

And another historical fact about khemlnsky that you don't mention is, that he and his men murdered and butchered 100s of thousands of jews! Just for being jewish!

[@romansochacki7678]

@@e.r7228 yup

[@digenesakritas8234]

Major omission for someone claiming to know about Cossacks...

[@romansochacki7678]

@@digenesakritas8234 this channel sometimes does that.

[@romansochacki7678]

@@e.r7228 wasn't intentionally glossing over it. A lot of messed of things happened during that uprising. He wasn't a great guy.

[@zakhysnyk_vilkh]

Please note there is a difference between TURKIC and TURKISH =)

[@TheGodTell]

"Would you wait, Sir, for the dribble to subside?"

[@ShadesApeDJansu]

One plus for Hakkapeelitta's from Finland, please take this advice to you're heart

[@ZiraRisasi]

Nestor Makino had no affiliations with white army units. This is because he led anarchist black army, not cossacks

[@mauvaiston4343]

he was a cossack dude

[@ZiraRisasi]

@@mauvaiston4343 true but he wasn't white army

[@AndriiGryganskyi]

@@ZiraRisasi Exactly, he was actually fighting the whites.

[@rcbulls96]

Since we’re doing videos on Outlaw MC Origins. Make one based off Mongols, Vagos, Bandidos and Hells Angels

[@rcbulls96]

No

[@rcbulls96]

@Stepan Volkavoy okay ? Idc lol

[@tudorcautisanu7460]

I see many Ukrainians offended by the statement that cossacks were not all part of the ukrainian ethnicity. May I ask what ethnicities were the cossacks of the Don or the ones in the Caucasus? Though I admit that the only centralized state ever built by cossacks was in today's Ukraine and by Ukrainians (when the Tsar's envoys came to the hetman's court they needed translators). Even so, this doesn't mean that cossacks were only Ukrainians. I am not saying this is not an important page of the ukrainian history but to say that the cossacks were a specific ethnic group is just narcissistic.

[@user-rt7bb3md2y]

Казаки пошли от Казар.

[@tudorcautisanu7460]

@@user-rt7bb3md2y Make an effort to answer to me in english

[@daria_in_japan]

Cossacks have Ukrainian origin Hortytsya Island in Zaporizha. And Russian cossacks appeared much later and were mercenaries, well as you can see…

[@chadgaston8615]

Technically it just means free men. What is always forgotten is that most Don Cossacks worked together with their brothers until Peter I and those that came after him killed the best of them. Idea is very simply. You always chose death over slavery. You never try to enslave others. That is what a true cossack is to me. Romanov empire was fairly new in 1618-1664 so it is understandable that everybody from Don to Danube did not understand what kind monster it would become.

[@twoneedy]

Cossacks has no origin, they are just peasants that were fighting for freedom. They could from anywhere

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

@@chadgaston8615 Lies They fought with the Ottomans

[@janszymanski6565]

Russian (Ryazan) cossacks - 1444 Zaporozhian cossacks - 1492

[@just_inker2584]

@@janszymanski6565 any mention of cossacks before Zaporozhian Cossacks is just mentioning of turkic mercineries.

[@Manuel-gu9ls]

A redhead from Kharkiv, Ukraine could be Cossack too

[@jasonsantos3037]

Wow these guys They deserve a respect

[@knaxFM]

They deserve far more. They deserve theier own country

[@ems4884]

This historical overview is a little sloppy. The Cossacks are one of the tricky topics in the history of eastern Europe. Their language, ethnicity and legacy are very disputed. It's not clear at all that the present day people claiming Cossack identity are truly directly descended.

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

They were just plain disgusting

[@laaylagi6503]

Do bisayan warriors from central and southern Philippines who raided China for 300-400 years for metal

[@y2weng]

WAKWAK

[@kalamansiraider3248]

Ulol

[@laaylagi6503]

@@kalamansiraider3248 ikaw tumahimik ka kung tagalog ka man ang lahi ninyo ang pinakaduwag sa kasyasayn ng pilipinas

[@kalamansiraider3248]

@@laaylagi6503 ga pulok ka lang mag comment! Mango!

[@laaylagi6503]

@@kalamansiraider3248 bakit ba kayo nagagalit ? Bobo kaba ? Nasobrahan sigurog og iyot imo mama sa mga puti pakyo nimo!

[@duvah]

Plz make a video on ottomans and Mongols

[@-RONNIE]

Good video 👍🏻

[@yelsmar]

What’s the name of the song starting at 03:32 and 09:37?

[@olenakresten6055]

NOT TRUE!!! Again Ukrainian history is adopted as Russian! Zaporozhian Sich has been created on territory of Ukraine. And it still exists as our cultural legacy.

[@ridabendarkaoui7367]

Слава Україні!

[@chadgaston8615]

They intend to wipe it out this time for good. Mariupol, Melitopol and others wont be nothing compared to what tsars servants do if they advance further to the west. Zaporozhia, Uman, Vinnitsya and all similar places are symbols of disobiedience to Moscow rulers.

[@mercertvofficial]

Bro there was no Ukraine when the sich was created 😂

[@ridabendarkaoui7367]

@@mercertvofficial there was no Russia at the time! Russia is anyways a bunch of other colonised territories)) it's principally not existing!

[@mercertvofficial]

@@ridabendarkaoui7367 ah yes the historian 😂😂 bro get some meds or something. Russia is the biggest country on earth and you say they are not existing just cuz you're butthurt

[@alexpainter4169]

This video has made me want to learn more about Cossack culture. Does anyone know where I can find a good source to learn more about the Cossacks?

[@user-et2xu7eo4y]

Sadly I don't know any source in English, but you can watch a movie "With Fire and Sword". It was made by Polish-Ukrainian team and shows both perspectives of Khmelnytskiy's Uprising. And also I recommend you to find some information about Petro Sagaidachniy, since he started the fight against slavery which later became the major goal of cossacks

[@vikakmv9261]

In Gogol's book Taras Bulba (Ukraninans) and Tolstoi's one The Cossacks (Russia). You would like them :)

[@mayadot7604]

Cossacks were Ukrainians

[@DocumentaryFanboy]

Very few are unfortunately available in English, but some reccomendations I would give are: Taras Bulba by Mykola Gogol The Cossacks: a history by Phillip Longworth

[@mishasagun446]

Kings and Generals made a great series of videos check them out

[@user-sz9ft6jj4d]

thank you

[@RenzoIsHereYT]

Look up "The Betrayal Of The Cossacks" that happened during ww2 Sad, but true story that no one talks about.

[@sean5558]

That led to Ned Starks secret agenda in when he joined Mi6 and later became a James Bond villain

[@RenzoIsHereYT]

@@sean5558 WW2 has no good guys the more you look into it... 2 million German women from age 8-80 were abused by the allies.

[@sean5558]

@@RenzoIsHereYT I said nothing abiut good or bad guys in ww2 it was pop culture movie ref a joke 🙄that was a James Bond Goldeneye reference. Sean Bean played 006 who’s family was Cossack and were expatriated to Britain and betrayed eventually being an MI6 agent and becoming a villain with his family history covered up

[@RenzoIsHereYT]

@@sean5558 that's what I'm saying... the British were also bad bc of the mi6 guy u mentioned lol

[@AndriiGryganskyi]

@@RenzoIsHereYT not allies but Red army

[@moth_kaca]

If you are georgian and wander about choxa they were wearing, yes Georgians could also be cossacks

[@laaylagi6503]

Cossacks,russians,ukrainians,caucasians,turks or even mongols have one similar ancestors Scythians and sarmatians

[@Terloyev]

@@laaylagi6503 The Scythians were an Iranian nomadic people who spoke an Indo-European language. The indigenous people of the Caucasus, such as the Chechen and Ingush, are unrelated to the Scythians.

[@laaylagi6503]

@@Terloyev are you sure ?

[@laaylagi6503]

@@Terloyev you're gonna be embarrassed even Ossetians are descendants of Scythians.

[@laaylagi6503]

@@Terloyev a bit too much saying they're totally unrelated right ?

[@konna200]

0:30 Jasper Pääkkönen from Vikings? LoL! But yeah Cossacks and Hakkapelitas rlz! XD I have to say that you forget totally the Finland bc Hakkapelitta has joined mighty Slavs!!!

[@lucianoluciano4632]

Please make a video on guns n roses!

[@suleman391]

Козаки єднайся проти Москви за волю, зараз! Cossacks unite against Moscow for freedom, now!

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

History hahahahaha Cossacks slaves of Moscow

[@daecimvs]

Can somebody please name the soundtrack from 3:44?

[@matejaspasic5327]

Great video. Please do Hajduks next

[@j3tztbassman123]

Interesting.

[@GigaChadJawline7777]

Ok, you know what I think, I think these petty arguments push our people away even farther. There were Ukrainian Cossacks and Russian Cossacks. I hope one day it’s the Cossacks that bring those to countries together as they are a patriotic symbol of both nations! ⚔️ 🇷🇺 🤝 🇺🇦 ⚔️

[@daadirabbi]

Basically most Easter European are mixed with Mongolian and Persian.

[@nero3837]

7:18 how dare you communists don’t commit genocides my gender studies professor in college told me so

[@xborngamer1887]

be happy your here because if the Soviet union is not real we well all be died by Nazis

[@nero3837]

@@xborngamer1887 i partially agree the soviets are the reason the allies won but im of german ancestry not gay not jewish so id be fine

[@fenrisodessa]

Capitalists don't commit genocides either

[@bobbysmurda2268]

Communists orchestrated the worst genocides in history. But all you heard in school was muh holocaust

[@SIGNOR-G]

@@bobbysmurda2268 based. This sheeps should really learn about the holodomor

[@EGSY-8p7]

there wasnt (russian) cossacks only (tatar mongolians but not Cossacks)... Ukrainian Cossacks Zaporishian Cossacks(Ukrainians too).

[@jerrmiahsalazar2326]

For the motherland

[@virgothesamurai2577]

Nice

[@sergeyd5777]

There were no "cossacks" in Ukraine. There were Kozaks. The former were russian druncards, finally employed by the monarchy, the latter were true warriors, defending Ukraine from invasions on the South.

[@emil8340]

ахаха

[@benarmstrong6904]

Why no credit for the thumbnail artwork? It's from cossacks 3 the game

[@lordbolton1822]

Congratulations on your one million subscribers, I didn't really notice before ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@ajithsidhu7183]

Please do one on sikhs

[@aashishsharma9106]

Oleksandr Usyk brought me here❤️

[@dwaynelewis7113]

Me to

[@kristianskoczylas5809]

So you basically erased Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth from cossack history and pretend this to be documentary? Thats probably the most dostorted historical events I have ever seen on the internet.

[@modlsuper]

I feel men before strong and fight like a real man Protect his family and real love for his land country and freedom In 2021 Men dancing shaking like a ladies No personality crying like a baby for any reason

[@charliemcternan8190]

So so so so sovamiang lowv it so so so much can you do the story of how Apollo killed Delphi

[@MCorpReview]

It’s sounds oddly similar to Kazakhstan. Sounds like they really hate the commies.

[@varun-xu8gv]

I used to think that they are somehow related to the khazaks because Cossack sounds similar to khazak

[@apost0167]

Both of these words share the same origin, it comes from the Proto-Turkic word Qaz(Khaz) and it means “to live free” and “to wander”. The “stan” part comes from the Persian language and means “land” or “country”, that’s why many countries today that historically have had relationship with Persian people bear the suffix “stan”, (Afghanistan, Qazaqstan, Turkmenistan, etc.) Overall, the word “Qazaqstan” means “the land of the free”/“the land of the wanderers”. As for the Cossacks, since many of them were of Turkic descent, they are called by the name “Qazaq”, which fits their way of life perfectly.

[@jinhuixi7833]

stan state stand land the same original in indo euro language, where people stand called land, on the land we have state

[@topg2820]

@@jinhuixi7833 yes, in Sanskrit it is Sthāna for Land too, India is also called Hindusthāna (Land of Hindus)

[@ferretman6790]

Great video, but noticed an error. Nestor Makhno did not lead the White Army. He led the Black Army.

[@SAMAYDOSTDAR]

Medieval communists be like 👍

[@SAMAYDOSTDAR]

Cause they are russian

[@ylu6685]

@@SAMAYDOSTDAR ...

[@ZiraRisasi]

Yes

[@Loreless]

that was a military democracy

[@AndriiGryganskyi]

Commies didn't have any honor though, this was a difference.

[@sifilore9462]

Since we're talking about Russian history, the next vids should b on Empress Catherine the Great, to see the reality vs fiction of her portrayals in HBO miniseries and Hulu The Great. There other is Russian myths on sirins. Much like the renowned sirens but with 2 differences, the E in the end is an I and remember when described as bird women well they say the bird parts r of owls.

[@cesareborgia7689]

Catherine is a survivor

[@DocumentaryFanboy]

Catherine was a monster

[@CH3FPYR0]

I am one of the great cossacks and there great mustaches

[@panupesonen3646]

we have a saying "to be awakened to the laugh of a cossac" it means freely translated in the meaning : sleeping past your luck. It is said to come from the old times in the 1800's when finland was overtaken with russia. people tough war is far and they are ok and didn't prepare them selves until suddenly they were awakened by the voices and laugh on the cossac russian mercenaries.

[@ostrowulf]

I like that saying.

[@mayadot7604]

They were Ukrainian Cossacks. Nothing to do with russia

[@shannonpopesco6704]

❤️

[@AndriiGryganskyi]

Cossacks actually were an ethnic group. In the census of the Russian Empire and early Bolshevik State, at least.

[@josephsolowyk7697]

My ancestors :D! You butchered the word Zaporozhian haha but I forgive you.

[@SMbigpapi]

The Mamushka

[@redwolfmedia1276]

Watched barely a minute in and their already not an "Ethnic" groups of people 😑!? It's like saying Yoruba,Sans,Bantu people of various Nation states are not Africans! If these groups decided to join forces they wouldn't have a problem understanding what they had in common. These groups can join forces because they stem from the same race.

[@judahlamuelsitohang1289]

Did you have 1 million play button

[@mikemike4705]

They didnt called themselves Cossacks, Tatars and Turks Gave that name to them, They were their Mortal enemies

[@shahjadivershinshahramchis874]

Plz make a video about GREEK MYTHOLOGY

[@lilpan1187]

Came here after oleksandr usyk outfit and hair

[@maryntiri6200]

Ashanti warriors of Ghana 🇬🇭 next

[@kevinlo7305]

Did these guys fight the Mongols?

[@genghiskhan6809]

For the algorithm!!!

[@whitebones2946]

When all causians where united no matter where they came from....what age to be alive

[@Olexandr____]

Have can u bring incorrect relations to Russia and ignore all cossacks original? They were match more related to Ukraine and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. How can u miss Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny?! Bohdan Khmelnytsky with cossacks created an independent state of Ukraine! Cossack state! Very big dislike for your incompetence.

[@perun196]

very true. anyone could join the Zaporozan Kozak . poor and the rich polish lithuanian rus ruthenian , Anyone who loved freedom could join. szlachta was wrong not to accept Kozak rights. My country was wrong . Ukraine should be independent centuries ago. All the best 🇺🇦 from 🇵🇱

[@ladyaneal4]

Wait Nestor never joined the White Army. He was the leader of the Ukrainian Black Army

[@nikab.7917]

Ancestors ❤️ Don Cossaks 🪗⚔️🛡️

[@SplendidFactor]

Ойся, ты ойся, ты меня не бойся, Я тебя не трону, ты не беспокойся

[@yoban360]

Until the soviets dismantle them.

[@daadirabbi]

Cossack or Kazakh they look like a Mongolian or Turkic people.

[@user-uh8fu3mb9l]

还有一点视频中没提到，俄国哥萨克和美国牛仔一样，是征服者和殖民者。哥萨克为俄罗斯帝国征服了中亚、北亚和东北亚，也镇压、奴役乃至灭绝了当地原住民。据我所知，虽然在中国东北（东北亚）和西北（中亚）这两个与俄国交流较为密切的地区，俄国人的形象比较复杂，有正有负，但是对哥萨克的印象不约而同地，都是邪恶的侵略者形象。

[@margaretkairu7418]

what next

[@Nicholas-ri9rv]

hermm..remember An American Pickle..

[@josephkush1032]

Even napoleon was jealous of them lol

[@johnsantini3382]

Napoleón had the Argelian soldiers and Mameluk soldiers and he defeated Autrohungria Empire thank to them

[@itspronouncednikolaj333]

@@johnsantini3382 and then he got kicked our of Russia lol

[@johnsantini3382]

@@itspronouncednikolaj333 Russians are warriors by blood

[@birdog45]

Khazaria

[@lauriesmith5766]

Think about it they are earth's Klingons

[@mariae9918]

Russians, we're never cassacks. Please read the history of the true cassacks

[@pashapasovski5860]

If you told Kozak that he was Ukrainian, he would look confused!?

[@dmitriyvovk4483]

What?? lol

[@catnap387]

They already began to use the term Ukraiina but still described themselves a Rusyny (Rusyn). Ukrainian is the more recent name for Rusyn

[@mayadot7604]

He’d be confused, saying ‘I know’

[@pashapasovski5860]

@@mayadot7604 Ukraine didn't exist at the time of Kozaks who fought Napoleon and Reds,on behalf of Romanovs!

[@pashapasovski5860]

Ukraine means frontier,or land between, as it was part of Hungary, Poland and Russian Empire! It's a Communist creation that feared Great Russia and used Stalin, Khrushchev respectively to carve it up,taking Crimea and East Azov and Black sea coast! Stalin was Georgian Khrushchev was Ukrainian!

[@jataofficial]

Its KOZAK, not KOSEKS!

[@theScrupulousBerserker]

@See U in History / Mythology I have a 1953 book that lists the tatars, cossacks, khanate, uhlan & murza as all under the main title of 'Tartar.' Thoughts?

[@rachelkirby6604]

Interesting

[@dabenzel45]

And that is how my family came to the USA in the early 1900's. Now I'm responsible for slavery?

[@Geraduss]

Well my great great grandfather was a Cossack Ataman, but he went to the then newly founded Yugoslavia. Least I don't have to worry about the politics across the pond.

[@shadowstorm3447]

You people claim there was no ukraine before the soviet union, while kiev was a city when Moscow was a village. Ukraine might have not been an independent country back then but they WERE Ukrainian. Language, Food, ways of life, everything was different for ukrainians compared to Russians.

[@Charliecomet82]

The Cossacks are raping and murdering in this village and they break into a house where there's two beautiful girls and their grandmother. . . ."Do anything you like with us," says one of the girls, "but leave our bubbie alone!" ''Wait a minute," says the bubbie, "a pogrom is a pogrom!'

[@cheukguanting123]

Ukraine was originally rus (norsemen) territory the slavs and Germanic people co existed with one another

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

They are simply Turkified Slavs

[@westsidermetalhead4997]

More like slavinized turkic tribe.

[@AndriiGryganskyi]

They were the direct descendants of all great ancestors inhabiting steppe before them, same burial culture, same rituals.

[@gensischronicles1148]

Khabib's ancestors

[@kyrylobardin4757]

Cossacks it is Ukrainians, not Russians.

[@mariae9918]

The Russian were never cossacks .

[@marginbuu212]

So they became the very thing they sought to destroy. Ironic.

[@danijaldblr3388]

Ukraine? At that time ukraine doesent even exist. The ukraine Identity Was created in the 20.century before that the people in that Region called themselves simply russians or Poles or even belarussians

[@CptHarris]

I can sense a russian there. Just chill, buddy.

[@danijaldblr3388]

@@CptHarris belarussian but we are all brothers chill

[@alekshukhevych2644]

@@danijaldblr3388 How can we be brothers if you are denying the existance of one of your brothers lol. Read old Cossack manuscripts of Samojlo Velichko and Litopys Samodyvcja written during the times of Khmelnytskiy.

[@mayadot7604]

Oh, get lost, kremlin bot

[@user-gw1gl4by8d]

poor knowlege... u guys mixed russian and ukranian Cossacs they are not a same at all...

[@user-gp5wu6hk2c]

Cossacks raided my great grandmothers farm

[@gijbfhjm]

there is no such thing as 'russian cossack', what you call russian cossack from Rostov on Don and Kuban , they are also ukrainian cossacks, as till the beginning of 20th centiry Rostov on Don and Kuban were inhabitat with ukrainians, until beginning of 20th centiry when russians rusified them by force, if you need proofs, see old maps

[@fiddleback1568]

The Cossacks were most likely a remnant of the Torcharians.