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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 14:14:18 -0500
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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:
> 
>> 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
>> 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]
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

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