Cossacks
European law, religious tolerance, respect for private property
Lol. Lmao.
This is from an official government institute, not a random NGO:
The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (Ukrainian: Український Інститут Національної Пам’яті, UINM), also translated as the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, is [a] central executive body operating under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
Another thing of note on the wiki page is that this institute helped draft some of the decommunization laws.
The laws setting up this institute talk about totalitarian regimes in the 20th century in Ukraine and specify 3 different famines in the soviet period, but don't mention any events from 1941 to 1945 :soviet-hmm:
The thing is, Slavs did likely have some early democratic traditions (as did a ton of groups in the early Medieval period, the whole "well, medieval people were dumb and just allowed kings to oppress them" isn't very true).
But this has absolutely fuck-all to do with "the European context" (whatever that's supposed to mean) and fucking private property. I think I remember reading that Slavs actually historically practiced communal land ownership (as, again, did a ton of people all over the world - the whole libertarian notion of private property being somehow natural is clearly bullshit).
and Ellen Meiksins Wood builds upon Polaniy in "Origins of Capitalism" which is a good book to follow up with.
I'm assuming you used libgen but there's also an audiobook on AudioBookBay if you want it. It was uploaded by "daenigma" a few years back so there might not be many seeders anymore.
if I find my attention span lapsing, I just tab over to the window/app, and put it back a bit. this allows me to read while working or playing video games or doing dishes or folding clothes so I much prefer it to traditional books but YMMV.
I've been doing it for almost 10 years now so I've gotten pretty good at it. I started doing it with fiction and only pivoted to doing it with nonfiction once I felt comfortable enough.
The best part of this series of infographics is that another one talks about how the lowly Russian untermench practiced communal ownership as a bad thing that shows that they were less evolved for not having private property.
The Cossack Hetmanate was basically a military junta, and a complete subject. It's wiki article states that "Establishment of vassal relations with the Tsardom of Russia .. is considered a benchmark of the Cossack Hetmanate." The Christian Orthodoxy prevalent throughout the area has a very specific culture of religious primacy. So no.
It did have good points too, but, this infographic couldn't be much less correct.
Yeah boi my Cossack trivia will finally pay off
Don’t tell anyone that Cossacks were the shock troops of Russian mandated ethnic cleansing of Muslims across the empire.
