Cossacks

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Russian/Ukraine Orthodox community who lived in the countryside. They make good music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwy4IV0LMrc

>>2940245
Strong, lovely and based people.

>>2940245
steppeniggers

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Based steppeniggers who trolled the fuck out of the T*rks

>>2940245

The Cossacks were fraternities of like-minded men, attracted to a life on the frontier. In many ways they are very analogous to American Cowboys, and like the Wild West, Russia's Wild East attracted fortune seekers, criminals, and free spirits in roughly equal numbers.

>>2940967
they were different from cowboys because a lot of them were escaped serfs who escaped feudal obligations be going to the frontier and adopting nomadic life or mixing with other steppe peoples.

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rapists and brutes and anti-semites

>>2941011
>t. Mehmed IV

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>>2940245
Rootless Slavic cunts adopting the Steppenigger lifestyle living in militarized mobile societies.

Later reinvented themselves as rootless Slavic cunts adopting the Steppenigger lifestyle to defend Christian communities versus legit Steppenigger cunts.

The word to begin with comes from the Cuman/Tatar Word "Kazakh." Meaning "Free Man" (as in, rootless cunt who wanders anywhere he pleases). In addition to their fashion, warfare, and weaponry being steppenig/Turkic/Central Asian derived (hence the Topknot).

>>2940992

That's true of Cowboys too. Did you know that blacks were over-represented among Cowboys, and that these blacks were often escaped slaves or sharecroppers seeking escape from economic serfdom? To say nothing of the Europeans who travelled to America to escape literal serfdom, granted they mostly stayed on the East Coast but there were Irish and German and Polish Cowboys.

>>2941026
interesting

>>2940245
Russian and Polish bandits who ran away to Sich beacuse they coudn't be caught there

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Cossacks were a unique part of Russian history.
They were a somewhat democratic society because they elected their leader and they consisted of various people from different backgrounds. A lot of them were serfs who ran away from their masters.

The Cossacks' job was keeping the borders safe from the Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire. The central government would send them supplies to ensure their loyalty. Most of the time they fought on horseback, however, they would sometimes fight on the ground like the did in Siberia, in the Crieman war and in WWI.

By the end of the XVIII century, the Russian Empire was headed towards centralization of power. As a result, cossacks lost a lot of their freedoms. Needless to say, the weren't to happy about it. Many join Pugachev to avenge the government but they couldn't fight the system.

Still, the cossacks remained a part of Russian culture and plenty of them joined the Imperial army to fight invaders.

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>>2940245
Christian Circassian