Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

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

On Fri, 10 Jan 2025, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

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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.

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This is incorrect. Ukraine and Russia should be part of the Swedish
kingdom!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurik
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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.

[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.
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