Don Cossacks: tradition resurrected

Russias legendary Don Cossacks have always been known as masters of waging war. And now the young generation of the Southern Rostov region on the Don River is reviving the old-time traditions of their ancestors.

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• Russia
• Don
• Cossaks
• waging
• war
• generation
• Southern
• Rostov
• region
• river
• tradition
• ancestors

[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?

[baginacough]

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

[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.

[Husar101]

@124RAMBO

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

[Scoutrussp7]

@124RAMBO

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

Your history skills sucks

[Nickname997]

cossacks are ortho dogs pigs

[inferno0020]

@clarajanny

She is very cute.

[yerk3]

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