Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Marta Trotsiuk - How Art is Helping Fight Back Against Russian Aggression and Cultural Imperialism" video.

Interesting she mentioned cultural connections after having recently been to Croatia's capital city as there is an old old connection between modern day Ukraine and that part of 'Jugoslavija'. If you go back to my grandparent's I have Bosnian and Croatian on my father's side and Serbian and Montenegran on mother's side. Anyway about 1,500 years ago, there was an ancient tribe of slavs living in this part of Ukraine I am in now (north of Galicia) called the "Beli Horvati" i.e White Croats (in modern times we dropped the "o" it's just Hrvati now) and that ancient tribe began migrating into the Balkans between 1,300 years ago. I suppose that they are my ancestors and I have come back to this part of the world they came from full circle. That's the ancient connection with Ukraine we have!
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@betterdonotanswer THat's really interesting and thanks for the heads up about the etymology's of the meanings of craot (I'd never actually looked into it yet) and and " Sěverъ" is pheoneticaly similar to the way you'd say serb msybe. that's make me wonder if the y were the ones that became the Serbians (older slavic used to call them "Servians" , I' ver seen that version , bu it may have been a corruption but it does inerestingly bring icloser to Sever)) Yea, haha Craots are a lot more like Ukrainians than the other Balkan groups, one thing for sure, they never wanted to be part of Jugoslaija or( Greater Serbia!), just as the Ukrainians never wanted to be part of "Greater Russia" or the USSR.. Also very more nationalistic with their culture a cut abo ve and beyond most other slavic groups, just like thd Ukrainains. THeir politics of modern times lines up, whereas pther slavic groups dabbleld in communism Craots & Uke's hated it from day one and saw it as an abomination and never wanted any part of it, even just a little! anyway yea Croatians dont do the "ye" for "e" sounds and dont say the "o "sound as an "uh" like RUsisans and to some extent Serbains too do, which makes the "o "sound more like "a"......cheers for the heads up again, or shiould I say Hvala Lepo!
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@betterdonotanswer ahhh ok, that's very interesting, I have no knowledge of all this. My mother's side is Serb, but I agtee with you, somethings not right about them, they too, like the Russians, can't accept not being the frist primal organised slavic cultre from which maybe we originated rom in he Balkans which was probably the Beli Horv ati and for sure the reason for their ongoing animisity to Croatians. THanks for that insight. Your conversation has spurred me to look into this in far more detail, something I have been mening to do for a long time but never got around to it.
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