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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.
