Russia Appreciation Thread

Lleauaric_sl said:

Russian History Is on Our Side: Putin Will Surely Screw Himself - The Daily Beast

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Araysar_sl said:

Just read the rest of this shitpile. there isn't an aspect of Russian history that he didnt mangle or get wrong. Unfunny, poorly researched and desperate to make jokes which repeatedly miss by a mile.

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Anyway aside from Araysar's laughable attempts to whitewash history, some good stuff from Russia:

C&C Red Alert units:



Pussy Riot:


RPK:

That article is an obvious troll. No need to bash it.

Hah, people defending that article? Like really? Fucking really?

Araysar_sl said:

I mean let's start with his very first historical assertion



Did PJ forget how his ancestral land of Great Britain was founded? Hint: it was the vikings.

The rest is even worse.

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Actually, it is my understanding...

The guys who went to Russia (what we'd consider Ukraine and Baltic areas really, but the family spread) was Scandiwegian-Vikings as part of the second expansion in the 8th and 9th century.

The ones who originally invaded England were Germanic-"Vikings" in the first expansion in the 4th century, right after the fall of the local Romans. The were "re-invaded" during the second expansion by the Scani-Vikings, but one could argue that had less impact overall than the German-"Vikings".

Trollface_sl said:

Anglo Saxons. Greatest ethnic group of all time.

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MONGREL, THIEVING, WHORES.

Not all white people are Anglo-Saxon!

Anglo-Saxons are pretty great. I'd be up for being Korean so I could be descended from a bear and be angsty about all the land that is ours but occupied by others.

Pretty much all "Anglo-Saxons" are Brythonic Celts with a trace of Angle/Saxon/Jute bloodanyway. If you go to the strongest areas of Anglo-Saxon settlement (SE England basically) and look at the genetics in the parts ofthatarea...you get about 20% Germanic-derived genetics, with the remaining ~80% being Brythonic Celtic (Welsh/Cornish/Breton/etc). Go outside of there and it starts rapidly going up past 90% Brythonic.

Itzena_sl said:

Pretty much all "Anglo-Saxons" are Brythonic Celts with a trace of Angle/Saxon/Jute bloodanyway. If you go to the strongest areas of Anglo-Saxon settlement (SE England basically) and look at the genetics in the parts ofthatarea...you get about 20% Germanic-derived genetics, with the remaining ~80% being Brythonic Celtic (Welsh/Cornish/Breton/etc). Go outside of there and it starts rapidly going up past 90% Brythonic.

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Sure, but it was cultural as much as anything. If it wasn't for those ancient German's you'd all be like the Scots, and no one wants that.

Can someone explain to me the difference between the Normans, the Scots, the Anglos, the Picts, and the Cimmerians please? I always got so confused when I was reading Conan books as a kid.

TheBeagle_sl said:

Can someone explain to me the difference between the Normans, the Scots, the Anglos, the Picts, and the Cimmerians please? I always got so confused when I was reading Conan books as a kid.

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Normans are invaders from France 1066 (Normandy). The Scots = The Picts. (Savages above Hadrian's Wall). Anglos/Saxons are invaders from the first great invasion around the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire. The original people were the Britains, (see Boudica) Cimmerians are fictional, but probably based on Mongols/Huns mixed with Nordic setting.?

Pretty good, but you missed that Normans were actually descendants of Vikings (Norman = North Man) who invaded Brittany (Brythonic Celts), rather than actual Frenchmen (Franks).