lets see, child soldiers and xenophobic religion oriented government funded troops,

this doesnt seem like a good thing to me... 

  On 2014-04-04 at 9:15 AM, Skullbuster said:

xenophobic

Ever been to Caucasus? Ever heard of Chechens? You obviously haven't.

  On 2014-04-04 at 9:15 AM, Skullbuster said:

religion oriented government funded troops

Pffft, what about USA funded mujahedeens, totally not religion oriented or anything. This is something different, this is chivalry.

  On 2014-04-04 at 9:19 AM, Comrade Serbon said:

Ever been to Caucasus? Ever heard of Chechens? You obviously haven't.

 

 

Pffft, what about USA funded mujahedeens, totally not religion oriented or anything. This is something different, this is chivalry.

no i have not been to causasus, but i have heard of chechens, i dont know anything about them, but i know thats a thing (also chechnya is fun to say XD)

the mujahedeens is a whole different story, we didnt fund them, we gave them stinger missiles to take down russian attack helicopters, it was more or less the US getting back at russia because russia helped the veit cong

i get the whole chivalry thing, but it seemed like they were against any ethnicity that wasnt them

itd be like if the US funded a group of armed religious zelots who wanted to kick out anyone who wasnt a white christian 

New York Times effect on man

I think we should join

  On 2014-04-04 at 9:25 AM, Skullbuster said:

the mujahedeens is a whole different story, we didnt fund them, we gave them stinger missiles to take down russian attack helicopters, it was more or less the US getting back at russia because russia helped the veit cong

I was talking about 1995 in Bosnia, and the Sunni Mujahideens and their jihad.

  On 2014-04-04 at 9:25 AM, Skullbuster said:

but it seemed like they were against any ethnicity that wasnt them

That is called a prejudice.

  On 2014-04-04 at 9:30 AM, Chetnik said:

New York Times effect on man I think we should join

I'd join if we had it here For now all we have is: 

http://cetnicki-pokret.com

http://www.redzmaja.org

I was under the impression that ethnic Cossacks disliked people ... hold on, I remember the word... ryazhenye? Pretending to be Cossack. It was a separate culture from the northern Rus, as I understood it.

  On 2014-04-04 at 1:55 PM, Fhaolan said:

I was under the impression that ethnic Cossacks disliked people ... hold on, I remember the word... ryazhenye? Pretending to be Cossack. It was a separate culture from the northern Rus, as I understood it.

I think the Cossacks originated from Khazars, but I'm not sure. We don't know much about Khazars :/ The only reason why we know they existed was when they went to war against the Arabs and made an alliance with the Byzantine Empire...

  On 2014-04-04 at 5:27 PM, Comrade Serbon said:

I think the Cossacks originated from Khazars, but I'm not sure. We don't know much about Khazars :/ The only reason why we know they existed was when they went to war against the Arabs and made an alliance with the Byzantine Empire...

Oh yes, that I understand. I was meaning more that there is currently a group of 'ethnic' Cossacks that are distinct from other Slavic ethnicities in Russia, and the few I've met were extremely disdainful of those who lay claim to Cossack culture without actually being born to that group. Of course, my info may be woefully out-of-date now.

  On 2014-04-04 at 6:25 PM, Fhaolan said:

Oh yes, that I understand. I was meaning more that there is currently a group of 'ethnic' Cossacks that are distinct from other Slavic ethnicities in Russia, and the few I've met were extremely disdainful of those who lay claim to Cossack culture without actually being born to that group. Of course, my info may be woefully out-of-date now.

I don't know, I'm not sure. I don't think that ethnic Cossacks still exist.

  On 2014-04-04 at 6:27 PM, Comrade Serbon said:

I don't know, I'm not sure. I don't think that ethnic Cossacks still exist.

I just checked out of curiosity, and supposedly there are somewhere around 65-70 thousand ethnic Cossacks in Russia according to the Russian Census. Whether these really are ethnic Cossacks, or people just claiming to be Cossack, I have no idea.