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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 09:06:16 -0800
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 14:14:18 -0500, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 1/11/2025 12:45 PM, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 13:35:28 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>=20
>> <snippo>
>>=20
>>>> 	Actually Russia should be part of the Ukrainian State if you
>>>> go back far enough in History. But the Ukrainian nation sparked =
Russia.
>>>> Kiev should be the capital. Most of Russian history started with =
Kiev.
>>>
>>> This is incorrect. Ukraine and Russia should be part of the Swedish
>>> kingdom!
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurik
>>>
>>> According to the chronicle, Rurik was one of the Rus', a Varangian =
tribe.
>>> Most historians believe that the Rus' were of Scandinavian =
origin,[13]
>>> more specifically from what is currently coastal eastern Sweden =
around the
>>> eighth century.[14] According to the prevalent theory, the name Rus' =
is
>>> derived from an Old Norse term for "the men who row", from an older =
name
>>> for the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen.[15][16]
>>=20
>> While I was waiting for my Russian Basic class to begin, I did some
>> reading. I found out a lot about Siberian folk religions but I also
>> found the Scandanavian connection; indeed, IIRC, what I read suggested
>> that a fair number of common Russian names for people are derived from
>> Scandanavia. Among other things.
>>=20
>> This gives the impressiion that the Great Russians are Swedes, and the
>> Little Russans (Belarus) [1] are the real Russians.
>>=20
>> Another theory is that they are, in fact, Finns.
>
>Don't tell a Finn that, if you value your health.
>Besides, genetic and linguistic evidence would suggest otherwise.

Yes, well, theories are like that. If it were certain, it wouldn't be
a theory.

And, Swede or Finn, that would make their Slavic language something
they adopted along the way.

And, of course, just because the /nobility/ wasn't Slavic doesn't mean
the people they governed were not.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"