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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
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 13:35:28 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Jan 2025, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

<snippo>

>> 	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=20
>kingdom!
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurik
>
>According to the chronicle, Rurik was one of the Rus', a Varangian =
tribe.=20
>Most historians believe that the Rus' were of Scandinavian origin,[13]=20
>more specifically from what is currently coastal eastern Sweden around =
the=20
>eighth century.[14] According to the prevalent theory, the name Rus' is=20
>derived from an Old Norse term for "the men who row", from an older name=
=20
>for the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen.[15][16]

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.

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.

[1] Also known as "White Russians" -- but not in the political sense,
that is, not as contrasted with the "Red Russians" in the post-WWI
Civil War.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"