I just had a Ukrainian-Canadian tell me Russian is not Slavic but Finnic/Turkic/aSiAtiC hOrDes. There’s a difference between opposing Putin and denying linguistic reality. Sorry, but linguistics doesn’t care about your feelings about Putin.
I just had a Ukrainian-Canadian tell me Russian is not Slavic but Finnic/Turkic/aSiAtiC hOrDes. There’s a difference between opposing Putin and denying linguistic reality. Sorry, but linguistics doesn’t care about your feelings about Putin.
Well, according to Polish nobility’s own mythology, Poles are not Slavs either, they’re Sarmatians descended from… Iran (funny how the concept of Aryan has the same geographical roots, totally unrelated… or is it?).
There are some Ukrainian nazis and wacko russian Hindus/Zoroastrians who claim Scythian ancestry. Especially the Indo-Europeans archeological sites in Russia have become pilgrimage sites for them.
And Ustaše claimed that Croatians were descendants of Goths. I sense a pattern here.
Their contemporary sympathizers also push pseudoscientific Iranian origin theory.