[lbo-talk] Soviet photography

Chris Doss itschris13 at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 13 05:56:00 PDT 2003


Cossaks:

http://slavic-legion.narod.ru/fotoalbum4.html

BTW the Cossaks have got to be one of the most unique groups of people I ever heard of. Ukrainian and Russian peasants who moved to the Caucasus and gradually evolved into a warrior-bandit culture like those of the Chechens and Dagestanis who lived around them.

Cossaks are now one of the official ethnicities in the Russian Federation, as of last year's sentence. The Cossaks are quite happy about this.

Since the collapse of the USSR the Cossaks have started military training schools for boys and forming armed militia defense units throughout those parts of the Caucasus where Cossaks live. Tradition lives on!

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