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2022-07-08 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Cossacks avoidance of the Northern Military District casts doubt on the meaning of their existence

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Posted by badanov 2022-07-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Maybe they see themselves as Tartars instead of Russian cannon fodder.

Posted by magpie 2022-07-08 18:16|| 2022-07-08 18:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Tartars are supposedly leftover Mongols and Turks, magpie. Cossacks are the original Rus.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-08 20:40|| 2022-07-08 20:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Properly spelled Tatars.

Posted by badanov 2022-07-08 21:05|| 2022-07-08 21:05|| Front Page Top

#4 as opposed to "Tater" in Iraq and on CNN

Posted by Frank G 2022-07-08 22:05|| 2022-07-08 22:05|| Front Page Top

#5 thanks, tw and badanov. One of those mental twitches and not being sure where the Don Cossacks (Slavic and Eastern Orthodox also allied with Moscow for centuries) stopped and the turkic Tartar horsemen started in the Caucasus region...

Posted by magpie 2022-07-08 22:33|| 2022-07-08 22:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Properly spelled Tatars.

So true, badanov. Glad you caught what I missed.

magpie, I’m still way behind the exchange. ;-)

Frank G, that ties it all up in a bow. :-D

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-08 23:05|| 2022-07-08 23:05|| Front Page Top

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