Don Cossacks: tradition resurrected

[DJEDzTV]

Cossack brotherhood was born on modern territory of Ukraine. They were Slavic, they were Orthodox religion and they HATED Poles and Turks!

Then part of Cossacks migrated to Don, and settled there and served faithfully to the Tsar! They became knows as Don Cossacks.

So you can say Cossacks were Ukrainian and Russian. But certainly not Polish )))

[CREAMAlG]

Essentially, the free cossacks are ukrainian and the others russian or polish because the chose so.Historically, cossacks were peasants and the like sick with serfdom and abuse who came to crimea, zaporozhie etc (the western steppe).

Initially, they were tartars (those were looters)

then Russians, Poles, Swedes, and even Germans came to join them,

and thus the cossacks were created.

[CREAMAlG]

these are what you would call "registered" cossacks (the don cossacks). They chose to go with russia.

Then there were also cossacks with poland back then , and apart from these two (russian and polish) there were the

FREE cossacks, who chose not to abide by any state or ruler but their Ataman.

[Bosirant]

In 1920s and 1930s, Bolshevik Russia tried to crush Ukrainian Free, Don, Kuban, Terek and other Cossack independence by means of terror and genocides. That's why in WWII, many allied themselves with the German and Axis forces to liberate their nations from Bolshevik Russian oppression.

[Nickname997]

cossacks are ortho dogs pigs

[yerk3]

"Kazakh" actually literally means both "freeman" and "horseman" in proto-Turkic.

[124RAMBO]

THEY NOT FROM RUSSIA, ORIGINALLY THEY ARE FROM UKRAINE!! FROM ZAPORIZKA SICH!!! THIS VIDEO IS KIND OF PROPOGANDA!

[Scoutrussp7]

@124RAMBO

Don cossaks are pure Russians, as well as Ural cossacks.

Your history skills sucks

[baginacough]

@124RAMBO Cossacks are their own nationality.. not russian not ukranian. We are kazaki!

[Husar101]

@124RAMBO

Ukraine and Russia = same. Always was always will be. No matter how much you frustrated little wannabe Nazis from Lvov hate that.

[clarajanny]

she got sob carried away by the "Armenian in Rostov" because she is Armenian herself. Almost forgot about the Cossacks...

[inferno0020]

@clarajanny

She is very cute.

[MiddletownDreamz]

@stuartsob Yes let us remember that the great famine of 1932-33 was not only hit at Ukraine but also the Don, Kuban,lower Volga and parts of southern Russia. Dekulakizations, deportations and executions also took place there by the reds.

[siamka8]

my grand dad is don kazak and i look like typical kazak girl

[MiddletownDreamz]

@siamka8 Which Cossack host? Don or Kuban'?

[cosak83]

I am cossack don ! I live in south france ataman marseille ...! staniza pa ruski GUNDOROVKA!!

[Ekranoplan96]

I am Don Cossack Descendant!

[voanirges]

@VChapaev During time of Cossacks Russia was Empire, and now it is piece of shit, LONG LIVE COSSACKS< traitors DIE IN HELL

[makno01]

This video speak tradition resurrected.

I believed that in the tradition the horses were important. I see somebody on horse by they are not riders, so are they cossacks. They knowed used shashka, but they are bad on horse and in djiguitovka.

Where are the djiguit?? with good djiguitovka. These discipline is be loosing.

(scuse my english, I'm french. I'm try to be handed on djiguitovka)

[DrKorn5]

He shot himself because his front fell appart and he thought he was doomed. If I remember correctly, and i know I do. In Quiet Don, which happens to be my favorite novel Grigory joins the Reds..for the second time because he was trapped at Novorossiysk and they were given the choice to join the Red army or go die in coal mines. If the Don was "Liberated" how come the Don army numbered at 45,000men and 20,000 of the "molodaya" army. Thats an aweful lot of people to ot be supporting the Whites.

[DrKorn5]

LOL you are full of shit. They were so wicked that almost the entire host followed kransnov into battle. Oh and did you know that the Don Cossacks in the northern stanitsyas revolted against soviet authority in spring of 1919? Anyways just looking at your name i know that you are going to spout some Red bs back at me. why don't you go and get machineguned running away from your lost battle eh chapaev?

[DrKorn5]

@zweefvliegtuig Sir I can not tell if you are supporting my statement or not. Just so you know I am a committed White and consider any cossack who when Red as a miserable creature who betrayed his host.

[MiddletownDreamz]

@DrKorn5 True enough. But let us also remember that the original cossacks and many who joined their ranks were also outcasts and fugitives and escapees fleeing tsarist autocracy, persecution and serfdom. Many of the old believers who fled after the schism raskol of 1667 settled in Cossacks lands, particularly the Yaik Ural host and continued to practice there freely.

[TheRedRussianCossack]

@DrKorn5 If you are not of Cossack blood, we don't need you to speak for us.

[MiddletownDreamz]

@DrKorn5 Unfortunately some Don Cossacks sided with the reds, some with the white and there were those true independent minded Cossacks who took a third option: returning to their earlier roots, institutions and history by pushing for Cossack sovereignty and independence. If the Cossack Hetman Skoropadsky had stayed in power in Ukraine and allied with the pro independent cossacks of Don, Kuban and further east there would have been no USSR and the terrors that followed under Stalin.

[cossack207]

Bolshevik propaganda

[VictorWasechkin]

cool. I know some cossaks from Russian Far East, Ussuriisk cossaks. They were sent by the tzar to the eastern border and took part in fightings with Chinese bandits and armies in XVIII-XIX century.

[lynx29]

thats where my family is from. the Ussuriisk cossacks are related to Don Cossacks

[RussianDefender100]

home city is the best ))

[Emyousmusa]

The Don Cossacks should protect there herritage, but also advance there means of weaponary wares, they should look towards all forms of hand to hand combat outside the country of Russia to be the best.

[hosank]

axx axxxxx gayane jannn. yeh nor naxichevan was merged with rostov.