Posted on 10/28/2015 8:56:14 AM PDT by Trumpinator
Welcome to the camp that trained 7-year-olds to be defenders of the Russian homeland
Jack Sommer and Harrison Jacobs
Oct. 23, 2015, 1:13 PM
There was once a military training camp for the young in Europe, known as the Crimea Sich, that took place every year in August for two weeks. It was located in Crimea, a peninsula right below Ukraine and Russia.
The Cossacks — an ethnic minority of East Slavic people who in 2014 helped Russia annex Crimea from Ukraine — would send kids as young as 7 to military training camps to learn how to become "defenders of the homeland."
Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk spent parts of the last five years attending a military training camp in Crimea to see how the pro-Russian, militaristic Cossacks train their young soldiers.
"The camp itself was very interesting for me," photographer Maxim Dondyuk told Business Insider. He added that he was amazed at "the fact that children were taught military skills with real weapons," especially at such a young age.
The camp was active for over 10 years, but when Russia annexed and overtook Crimea in early 2014, the camp fell apart. The once united community was broken up as soldiers sided with their home countries. Russia then used Crimea as a forward operating base, and the camp ceased to exist.
Dondyuk shared some photos from the project with us here, and you can check out more of his work on his website.
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Now, imagine if Western Europe had similar training and weapons familiarization. Further, imagine if Western Europe had a Swiss model of decentralized, militia national defense.
Would they have to worry about the Moslem infiltration?
Would there even BE any Moslem infiltration?
Would Europe tolerate its present, abusive and dictatorial leaders?
“...The Cossacks ...”
My ancestors. Tough SOBs.
From the article:
Because most Cossacks are devoutly Eastern Orthodox, religion was a major part of the camp. The boys say prayers during the day and are guided in Bible readings.
“If we train them to kill but don’t give attention to spiritual training, we educate an ordinary killer and not a defender of [a united Cossack] Motherland,” Dondyuk overheard one officer say.
Sultan Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhian Cossacks:
As the Sultan; son of Muhammad; brother of the sun and moon; grandson and viceroy of God; ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt; emperor of emperors; sovereign of sovereigns; extraordinary knight, never defeated; steadfast guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ; trustee chosen by God Himself; the hope and comfort of Muslims; confounder and great defender of Christians - I command you, the Zaporogian Cossacks, to submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks.
—Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV
The Cossacks’ reply came as a stream of invective and vulgar rhymes, parodying the Sultan’s titles:
Version 1:
Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan!
O sultan, Turkish devil and damned devil’s kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight are you, that can’t slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil excretes, and your army eats. You will not, you son of a bitch, make subjects of Christian sons; we’ve no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, fuck your mother.
You Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, pig of Armenia, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. Pig’s snout, mare’s arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw your own mother!
So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. You won’t even be herding pigs for the Christians. Now we’ll conclude, for we don’t know the date and don’t own a calendar; the moon’s in the sky, the year with the Lord, the day’s the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!
- Koshovyi Otaman Ivan Sirko, with the whole Zaporozhian Host.
Whomever wrote it doesn't have a clue, so the rest is gibberish as well. The clowns cosplaying the Cossacks are Russian lowlifes shipped there like a cattle from Russia to displace natives. Of course, nothing Slavic in these humanoids.
Yup...
That was my great-great-great-great-great Uncle Koshovyi.
We just called him “Bob”, however...
Russians are native to Ukraine as are various other Slavic sub units. There is no such thing as a unified Ukrainian ethnos and there never was despite 19th century nationalists from the Western Austrian Hungary part of the empire trying to make it so.
Bob’s your uncle! Small world.
Five times removed...
Bob’s your uncle is a sort of British slang term. “Bob’s your uncle” is an exclamation that is used when “everything is all right” and the simple means of obtaining the successful result is explained per Wikipedia. I don’t know if you were going for that but it was funny (I lived in England for a while).
“...I don’t know if you were going for that but it was funny ...”
Haha!! No, I’d never heard of it... I was just being a wiseass to make you crack a smile.
Russians are native to tundra at the outskirts of humanity. They stole the name from Rus - conglomeration of Slavic peoples lived in and around modern Ukraine. Now Russians cast themselves as Slavic, laughable and sad at the same time. Ukrainian nation is the direct descendant from ancient Rus, while semi-civilized Russians are just that - primates with nukes.
Hate to disappoint you, if your ancestors are real Cossacks - there are none among these hereditary alcoholics in the article.
It was a joke, brother.
Although I am of Ukrainian (and Irish and Austrian) ancestry.
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