Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "John Sweeney - Putin's Uniformed Gangsters have Captured Russian Society, Military, Media, Education" video.

  1. Look, before I say this, I want to mention that I was at the event you held at Lyiv a bit over a year ago, and I met both you and Mr Sweeney and shook your hands. I love you both, you are true friends of Ukraine, but I have to push back on something. ,At 16:20, Mr Sweeney says that, "..under the Czars, until they lost the Crimean war, the vast population were not free, they were Serfs...Slav, if I think the etymology is correct, the base word for slave..." - this is complete and utter nonsense. There was even a National Geographic article that peddled this falsehood. It is more commonly agreed with scholars and academics that the word "Slav" came from the world "Slovo", i.e. people of the word. This is because the old slavic word for Germans is "nemtsi" (people who are dumb - unintelligible). In the former Yugoslavia where my ancestors came from the word for Germany is not "Germaniya" like it is in ruzzian, it is "Njemachka", derived from the eastern slavic Kyivan Rus word "nemtsi". When Kyivan Rus fell, my ancestors migrated to the Balkans, -these where the "Beli Horvati" tribe - ("White Croat" tribe). There was also a Red Croats tribe too (hence the red and white checkered flag pf Croatia). In Ukraine the word is also "Nimechchyna". RuZZia is not a good gauge of the historical etymology of our words!!!
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  2.  @jonson856  Indeed, I think you might be right, also in slavic, the word for slav is "slovyanski", when it got transliterated to English is ends up "slavic", so the etymology gets confused with the way it ended up in English somehow. Slovenia and Slovakia get their names from the root for Slovyanski etc. But I think it's Greek or Latin that used "Sclaveni" and aslo in old times Serbia was "Servia" with a v, which maybe relates to that root word you mentioned.
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