Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Kazakhstan's Largest Fraud is More Complicated Than You Think" video.

  1. Fun fact: The Russian "Cossack" comes from "Kazakh," meaning "nomad." Eventually Cossack came to mean something like "cowboy" and many Kazakhs are Cossacks.
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  2. Caveat: African businesses are highly volatile and stupid cheap due to the many risks associated with poor and dirty countries. Some of these trades may have been savvy "distressed investing" trades rather than require bribes.
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  3. Kazakhstan? Says who? No one seems to know anything about the place
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  4.  @denisflorian2431  sign you don't know anything about Slavs
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  5. Malaria can totally kill you weeks after contracting it. It comes and goes in spells where some days you can do stuff and other days you feel like you're going to die. Rince and repeat until you ded.
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  6. In America this the "corporate fraud" office of the FBI.
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  7.  @strangelylookingperson  Kazakh is from Turkish Qazaq, but I've heard many conflicting etymologies for cossack, mostly from people who resent the fact Kazakhstan was Russian for the longest period of time
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  8.  @strangelylookingperson  No real change, except for the state takeover of business and the communes, which didn't even effect most of the population. Even these days, Russia's hold over the country isn't much looser than the Tsar's. Much of the population is even still semi-nomadic, moving across country as far as Russia to get seasonal work in cities and farms.
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  9.  @strangelylookingperson  cossack doesn't mean nomad anymore
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  10.  @strangelylookingperson  They literally were, depending on which era you're speaking off. "Cossack" originally referred to horse riding settlers in remote steppe regions who'd move their cattle from place to place. Only later did it start meaning adventurer or militiamen.
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  11.  @strangelylookingperson  You googled cossacks just now and got the common wrong answer. Cossacks entered the European imagination due to Russian settlers in the Ukraine back when it was still part of Poland. The Ukrainian and Russian are so close together that they may be considered dialects of the sea language. In this case, the cyrilic 3 makes the z sound, so it's the difference between Cos-sack and Coz-zack. They are older than that, though, referring to Russians going native in the east rather than the west.
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  12. @Рахымжан Рахматулла  connected via Russian. Russian and Ukrainian are so close they're almost dialects of the same language.
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  13.  @РахымжанРахматулла-ы3й  Khazakstan didn't exist as a state before Russia annexed it. What the frick you on about
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