Neo nazis in Ukraine and Russia. whatever.
what I dont understand is WHY these Slavs are obsessed with Hitler when he hated them/Slavs? makes no sense.
They are LARPing that they are Nordic. . .
ok now i have a wikipedia maybe provides some of their beloved ethno legitimacy
The
Rus',[sup]
[a][/sup] also known as
Russes,[sup]
[2][/sup][sup]
[3][/sup] were a people in
early medieval Eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally
Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day
Sweden, who settled and ruled along the
river-routes between the
Baltic and the
Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD.
The two original centres of the Rus' were
Ladoga (
Aldeigja), founded in the mid-8th century, and
Rurikovo Gorodische (
Holmr), founded in the mid-9th century.[sup]
[4][/sup] The two settlements were situated at opposite ends of the
Volkhov River, between
Lake Ilmen and
Lake Ladoga, and the Norsemen likely called this territory
Gardar.[sup]
[5][/sup] From there, the name of the Rus' was transferred to the
Middle Dnieper, and the Rus' then moved eastward to where the
Finnic tribes lived and southward to where the
Slavs lived.[sup]
[5][/sup]
The name
Garðaríki was applied to the newly formed state of
Kievan Rus',[sup]
[6][/sup] and the ruling Norsemen along with local Finnic tribes gradually assimilated into the
East Slavic population and came to speak
a common language.
Old Norse remained familiar to the elite until their complete assimilation by the second half of the 11th century,[sup]
[7][/sup] and in rural areas, vestiges of Norse culture persisted as late as the 14th and early 15th centuries, particularly in the north.[sup]
[7][/sup]