Why do slavs always cream themselves over the Byzantine Empire?

we do?

Never understood it either

>>78492435
Not really sure what you're talking about m8.

>>78492435
i have neither a slav talk about the byzantines before anon

>>78492435
>as if they are larping as Byzantines themselves
Orthodox South Slavs are a part of the so-called "Byzantine commonwealth" which extends somewhat to Orthodox East Slavs and Catholic Croats as well, so we actually do have a genuine claim to Byzantine heritage.

Byzantines were cancer
Byzaboos are double cancer

>>78492678
Here we go....

WE

>>78492678
This 2bh
>Poccи́я, tr. Rossija from the Greek: Ρωσία — Rus'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia

It's funny because the word 'slave' comes from Slavs who were used as slaves by the Byzantine Empire.