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To stay on topic, I’d like to discuss where nationalists get their ideas from.
Ukrainian nationalists say that Russians are half-breeds because they polluted their blood by mixing with Asians.
I’m Russian and I take examples from my own family, all of whom identified themselves as Russian. I can trace most of it back to World War II.
So, my granny’s names were mostly Ann or Mary, but my great great granny’s name was Efrosinya Stepanovna.
Efrosinya means ‘joy’, it’s a greek name Εὐφροσύνη. The name of one of The Three Graces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_GracesIt’s quite ironic, because after WWII, my great-grandmother had terrible osteopathy, which caused her spine to be bent like a witch, and motivated me to take up ballet lessons to have good posture.
Evphrosinya (short Priska. One could expect it to be shortened from Priscilla, but it wasn’t) was quite common name for Russia.
All of Russia was baptised into Christianity back in about 10th century. The Greek monks invented alphabet to write down slavic speech, they also had to invent letters to write down Greek names with sounds absent in Russian.
Btw, my granny Ann substituted Greek ‘f’ sound with ‘hv’ sound in words like ‘profile’, because ‘f’ sound is alien in Russian. I swear I’ve heard it with my own ears.Her patronim was Stepanovna, which means her father’s name was Stepan, Russian adaptation of Stephan, or Steven. If they were Irish, it could be O’Steven. If they were Arabs, it would be Ibn Istifan 🙂
Well, her son, my granddad, was named Tikhon (Τύχων) which means ‘Lucky’. He was born of a man named Akim, aka Ἰωακείμ – Joachim.
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To keep it short, I found no trace of non-christian names. Family names were mostly up to profession, like Kravets (the same as Tailor in English or Schneider in German). Ovchinnikov (SheepSkinner/Schaffelman).No trace of Kim or Lee or Mohammed or Halifa. I shoud say if they did, I’d be proud of this! The wider the heritage, the luckier the kid!
Really don’t know where they Ukrainians take their nationalistic lies from.
To me the most important podcast on this topic of this year so far:
On Russia and Iran vs. USA from Russian POV by a critical John Helmer with Nima in a geopolitical/global context.
John Helmer: Two Fronts, One Collapsing EU? Greenland’s Choice & Ukraine’s War
60 min.
https://rumble.com/v74mh9q-john-helmer-two-fronts-one-collapsing-eu-greenlands-choice-and-ukraines-war.html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_ucp_acriticism welcome
Strange how western media/politicians kept pretty much silent on the recent event when pro-western ex-PM of Ukraine Yulia Timoshenko was busted in a corruption raid:
Details of high-level Ukrainian vote-buying probe released
An anti-corruption agency has released evidence in a cash-for-votes scheme allegedly involving former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenkohttps://swentr.site/russia/630948-timoshenko-corruption-record-nabu/
According to Timoshenko herself it was a politically motivated attack by Zelensky to libel/purge candidates before any election being held in Ukraine:
Zelensky eliminating opponents before elections – opposition leader
Yulia Timoshenko has argued that a vote-buying probe against her is politically motivatedhttps://swentr.site/russia/631298-zelensky-eliminate-opponents-elections/
No nazi-problem in Ukraine they say, still time and time again the reality on the ground prove otherwhise:
“Dutch ex-soldier Hendrik candid about horrors on the Ukrainian front: ‘Every morning the Nazi salute was given,’ Stepan Bandera flags, inverted swastikas, Nazi symbolism at Third Separate Assault Brigade (Azov). He clashed with Colombians, many from the drug cartels. Hendrik heard about war crimes, even torture and mutilation. Colombians even showed him photos of beheadings.”
De Telegraaf, major Dutch newspaper, writes about what other Western and Ukrainian media, politicians, info warriors and other propaganda peddlers cover up and whitewash about neo-Nazi-led Azov and Colombian mercenaries in UkraineScott Ritter´s extensive and important response to Sy Hersh´s apparently unfortunate piece on Russia (I haven´t read it yet.)
But Ritter´s account in itself is already very helpful as he e.g. goes back to Biden´s 2011 mission to Moscow trying to help bring an end to Putin´s era and prepare a change of political course of the country. With a lot of revealing quotes from Biden´s speeches there. And quotes from RU military officials who Ritter talked to re: RU current affairs.Scott Ritter: Getting it Wrong on Russia (Response to Seymour Hersh’s Latest Article)
https://natyliesbaldwin.com/2026/01/scott-ritter-getting-it-wrong-on-russia-response-to-seymour-hershs-latest-article/
