Have Cossacks ever not been assholes? >slaughtered their

>>2727542
"Countrymen" is a liberal nationalist conception inapplicable to Cossack history. They saw no kinship between themselves and random settled Slavs in Ukraine or the Pontus.

>>2727542
>Cossacks have a country
The fuck are you on
Cossack is defined as free Christian steppe nomad that's it

>>2727573
>liberal nationalist
This is your brain on amerikkka

>>2727578
Nationalism is a liberal idea

>>2727576
Many were Jews and Muslims actually

>>2727578
Nationalism was originally a left-wing liberal movement

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>>2727588
Muslims would be tatars, never heard of Jews so post sources
>>2727582
>>2727597
Left wing when it was a grassroots movement of peoples rejecting 'foreign' king, but not liberal

>>2727578
Nice one, retard.

>>2727605
>>2727609
See

>own countrymen
And are we talking about Don Cossacks here or the cossack units, because the latter contained muzhiks and pretty much all subjects of the Monarchy, except for Yids.

>>2727542
all the non-asshole Cossacks died out when Catherine II had the Zaporizhian sich destroyed
and then again during the Soviet Decossackization

That's why Cossacks went from free orthodox peasant warbands to Moscow loving Muslim hat wearing bdsm whip enthusiasts

>>2727605
there were jewish cossack groups, but it was overwhelmingly christian

>>2727624
ever since the great cossack rebellion of the mid 1600s against poland lithuania the tsars forced the cossacks to bend the knee and do his bidding from then on

>>2727709
Still no proofs
>>2727719
The Cossacks voted for the Romanovs and were pleased to take Tatar land

The relationship was mutually beneficial

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>>2727542
>ataman wat eez matyer
>AYM DRANK

>>2727621
>i love freedom so much that i will slaughter peasants for the tsar

>mercenaries were assholes

WOAH HOW SHOCKING