Russians are NOT Slavs? 

Russia : So some have said we're not actually Slavic. Bulgaria : First time?

Saying that Russian isn't a Slavic language because Russians can't understand Polish or Czech is like saying that English isn't a Germanic language because Britons and Americans can't understand German and Dutch.

The fact this argument still exists is both funny and sad

"You are some Finno-Ugric people mixed with the Mongols" - and even if this was true, which part am I supposed to be ashamed of?

"Czechs and Poles understand each other without problems" Yeah...

American commander: Damn it, I was sent to defend the United States, but how am I going to fight if half my unit isn't American! The first Canadian, the second Pole, the third Japanese, the fourth Briton, the fifth Vietnamese, and the sixth Russian commune. Oh, completely forgot about the one, which is both Russian and Asian. Soldier: Sir, it's Kazakh.

Every Slavic nation mixed with non-Slavic people. There are no pure Slavs.

When someone said Russians is not slavic people. but a finno-ugric and turkic, it's a way better and easier to say "Yeah, and?". After this question around 100% people who said Russian is not Slavic release their true face of xenophobic racists, who thinking Turkic and Finno-Ugric people are some asiatic hordes and barbarians, lol.

And they say Russian propaganda is bad, lol

By this logic Ukrainians and Bulgarians are not Slavs because they had non-Slavic ruling class during their early founding.

Damn, historical grudges and xenophobia mixed in with nationalism leads to some crazy shit.

In Czech Republic we have something similar. Some people think that we are infact germanic and not Slavic.

*Divide and Conquer.* Some political/military tactics never get old.

If the Russian somehow became mongols after 250 years of occupation doesn't that mean Poles , Ukrainians, Belarusian also became Russians ??? They just admits they are Russian😂😂😂, you guys literally gave Putin the chance to justify war 😂😂😂

Wasn't that debunked by Life of Boris in the video "Rating countries by slavness - Travel with Boris" where Russia scored an 11/10 in slavness?

Thank you for this video. This reminds me of how a certain Austrian Artist who took over Germany and started WW II tried to bury the fact that many Germans have an admixture of Slavic ancestry and are not purely German.

"Russians are NOT Slavs?" *laughs maniacally in Polish*

I am Czech,and it's not problem for me to understand Russian. And that's why I learnt Russian. It has similar gramatic. The gramatic is more similar to Russian,than to polish,we might understand more of a polish,but our languages are completely different. Infact,we have a lot of in common with Russian language.

5:12 In my opinion, to say that Czechs and Poles can "understand each other without problems" is an overstatement to say the least. I mean, some Czechs have trouble even with Slovak if spoken too fast, and these two languages really are basically the same thing.

As a person who is actually of finno-ugric and turkic ancestry, all I can say is thanks to ukrainians who propagandize this theory, now you are hated not only by ethnic russians but also pretty much every minority within russia, mari, udmurt, tatars, bashkirs, yakuts, khantys and 70+ other. Bashing russians saying that they are finno-ugric, mongoloid or turkic as if that was something to be ashamed of is pretty disrespectful to these ethnicities as well.

Let's be honest, the people who say Russians aren't slavs are just salty Russia used to ruled over them.

This whole argument is like the pot calling the kettle black. Yes. Russians are mixed with Finno-Ugric People's. Heck, some are mixed with Native Siberians. In fact, I myself have some Volga Tatar Ancestry. But it isn't like Ukrainians, Czech's, Serbs, or Poles are "pureblood". Ukrainians are mixed with Romanians, Hungarians, and Turks. Czechs are mixed with Germans. So are Poles to an extent. Serbs are mixed with Turks and Hungarians. There is nothing wrong with any of that. Having some Finnic and Turkic Ancestry does not make a Slav less Slavic. Let's not get started on language just for the simple fact that ALL slavic languages are full of Greek, Latin, French, and English loanwords. If anything, such rhetoric is reminiscent of Germany in the 1930's.

This is funny, i wonder what those 'scientist' would think of about us South Slavs.

The most annoying part for me, and it's global propaganda for real, is that Russians can't understand other Slavic languages. This shit is frustrating. Imagine growing up in Chernozem'e (near Ukraine's Charkov), half of your buddies (and family) speaking a southern Russian (which sounds like Ukrainian for northern Russians). And it's not just about neighbor Ukraine, Belorussian was also around all the time, you've talked to them in Russian and they understood, they talked to you in Belorussian - and you get it all. You were raised in an orthodox family, so you can understand how close is Church-Slavic to southern Slavic languages, you can even read Serbian and Bulgarian without any special training! But a bit later all the fckn internet starting to insist that Russians can't understand Slavic languages. Bruuuuuuuh

"Czechs and poles understand each other without problems." Yeah in english. Czechs and Slovaks understand each other. Some words are the same so understanding some parts is possible but its definetly not "without problems".

clearly the people making language argument don't know how linguistics works. Linguistic groups are based on root origins traced back to the earliest common ancestor, not based on which languages they are the most similar to now. It's the same logic that makes people believe English is a romance language when it's Germanic. English's proximity to a French and the immense cultural influence it had on it is a major reason why the English vocabulary has so many romance words, but grammatically still similar to German and other Germanic languages even if their unintelligible. It just saddens me that people are using political gradiences to justify othering a peoples cultural heritage.

As someone from Poland, regardless of troubled History. I always viewed Russia to be Slavic, not by their culture since their culture is a bit different but somewhat similar to other slavic cultures but by their language since it's some what similar. Something people failed to understand is, every country has their own culture, differently but coming from the same tribe, we need to learn to respect that🇵🇱🇷🇺💞

I’m a pole, all the hardships my family went through due to Russia is undeniable, but that’s due to the governments not people. A Russian person is just as great of a brother to me as a Czech or Slovak. Slavia all slavs.

I am ethnic russian living I'm Sweden. I guess the Vikings are back home after a detour in Russia. Well I have a little ukrainian and belarusian blood too. 🇷🇺🇧🇾🇺🇦

They show difference in vocabulary, sometimes Russians do use odd words but the thing is in most cases it's either 1. They use the same words with different meanings 2. It's new Russian words because old/archaic Russian was identical with the rest

"Even" as a Croat, I'll say, Russians are world wide brand for all the Slavs, just as we say Kalodont in term of any tooth paste. Whether the rest of us like it or not, that’s a fact.

Who the hell would think Russians aren't slavs?! Russians are the slavvest slavs that ever slavved. And that's coming from a Bulgarian. We gave you the alphabet, BTW, and thanks for the liberation, we'll be forever grateful.

From what I know it depends on the region Some regions' Russians have more Finnic or Ugric than Russians on average do. But if we speak of western central Russia, it's mostly Slavonic for sure

I’ve always been interested in the differences between the Slavs ! I’ve always known the relationships have been super complicated and that one shouldn’t paint you all with one brush! Awesome video!

Hey there, I'm an ethnic Vepsian (a very small Finnic indigenous group from the Russian Northwest), and as someone who's lived most of his life in St. Petersburg and therefore is constantly surrounded by ethnic Russians and Russian speakers, and speaks Russian as one of his two native languages (alongside Vepsian), I believe I may have some nice insight into this argument and where it stems. Okay, so, first of all, let me clarify - there definitely is a huge Finno-Ugric imprint in Russian culture, thanks to the Northwest Russian contributions to mainstream Russian culture. Speaking of which, Northwest Russian culture is practically identical to the culture of local ethnic Karelians and Vepsians, both a Finnic people, which means that Northwest Russians are at the very least partially descended from assimilated remnants of those ethnic groups' relatives. In fact, seeing as those Vepsians that still identify as such today generally live in very isolated areas, one can assume the surrounding ethnically Russian population are descended from those Vepsians that didn't live so faraway from larger settlements. Which is absolutely true. But that doesn't mean that the Russian identity is exactly the same as the Vepsian identity or the Karelian identity. No, they're all very different. Well, not so much these days, but before the Great October Revolution (after which the various parts of the country became much more interconnected), Vepsians, while being extremely culturally close to Russians, were noted to be often experience forms of xenophobia from surrounding Russian population, they would be picked on and generally made fun of, and were being encouraged to forget their mother tongue as soon as possible and to assimilate into the Great Russian nation. The scholars of the day usually concluded that Vepsians would become completely assimilated in 30-40 years from that point in time (which was the late 19th century and the early 20th century). But, thankfully, the Bolsheviks came to power and gave us (along with hundreds of other indigenous minorities of Soviet Russia) our own alphabet and our own literature, which our people had never been able to enjoy prior. The first ever Vepsians poets, writers, and artists started to appear in those days - which is incredible for a people that were, just a few decades ago, regarded as simple village folk, incapable of accomplishing great civilizational tasks without abandoning their own culture for another one. So, as you can see, the Russian people, while obviously being related to other indigenous peoples of Russia, are definitely an ethnic group of their own and cannot be counted as being non-Slavic.

I think you should have mentioned that there are genetic differences among Russians. Northern Russians are Ugro-Finnic, while Central and Southern Russians are genetically very similar to other Slavic nations, like Poles or Belarussians.

I'm Russian and I don't care if I'm a Slav or not. The rest of the Slavs want me to be a Finno-Ugric or a Mongol, no problem, I will be a Finno-Ugric or a Mongol. Then the Hungarians will be my brothers, I don't mind. Hungarians are a very cool people who stand up for their opinion, despite what others think. How much will I lose from the fact that I will not be a Slav, but remain Russian? No, not much. How much will the Slavs lose if the Russians are not Slavs? Hmm, well, let's see... If the Russians are not Slavs, then: not the Slavs wrote dozens of cult works of classical literature and music, not the Slavs invented the periodic table, not the Slavs invented the radio, not the Slavs sent the first satellite into space, non-Slavs built the first manned spacecraft, the first man in space was not a Slav, the first girl in space was not a Slav, the first space station was built by non-Slavs, and much, much more, which I, due to my stupidity, cannot immediately remember. Have you ever considered a problem from this side? The question is who will lose and become poorer: Russians from the fact that they will not be Slavs or Slavs from the fact that the achievements of the Russians will cease to be associated in any form with the Slavic ethnos? Then the Slavs will be even more miserable and miserable in the eyes of the Turkic peoples in the face of the Turks, and the German peoples in the face of: Germans, Austrians, British, Americans (it is debatable of course, but the peoples of Germanic origin rule and rule there), who always hated the Slavs and tried to conquer , and destroy the Russians altogether. In no case do I belittle other Slavic peoples, Russians are no better than Serbs or Czechs, and in general all people are equal in this world, but I have to defend my own people in this particular case, so I list briefly what it was he gave to others . The Bulgarians are great, who gave us the alphabet, the Serbs are great, the Poles are great, despite our blood feud. All other Slavic peoples are just as great. But, only the common contribution of all peoples to world culture and science makes the Slavic ethnos great, and the Russian contribution to world culture and science is not one that can be thrown away and forgotten. By united efforts, we can compete with the Germanic peoples, but by squeezing us out of your family, can you compete with them culturally or scientifically? Remove Russian composers from your Slavic family, and then who can compete with Beethoven or Mozart? In general, I do not take offense at squeezing Russians out of the Slavs, since I have not believed in the Slavic brotherhood for a long time. The Poles, with whom we are at war and have been trying to destroy each other for centuries, the Bulgarians, who betray and go to kill us in alliance with our enemies, etc. Well, what kind of brotherhood can there be? It seems only in dreams. I want to strictly note that this is by no means the opinion of Russians, this is my personal opinion, of an insignificant person from the province of Russia. Therefore, if I offended anyone, then offend me in return, but not the Russian people, since I am only responsible for myself.

"The Russians do not understand other Slavic languages".Bullshit, I'm a native Russian speaker and I find the most of Slavic languages quite familiar, even Polish sounds only like a bit strange version of Ukranian. The Duchinsky version, is so beloved by the Ukranian Greco-Catholic nationalists only for political reasons.

God, that linguistic angle is an absolute meme. Only someone with absolutely no knowledge in the field may believe this stuff. BTW, I've conversed with bolgarians decently well with neither of us actually knowing the other's language.

Hi, regarding the languages. If a word in related languages are similar, it doesn't necessarily mean that the word was borrowed from one side. As the languages are related, the words just very often have common origins. So, that's why there are many similar words in Ukrainian and Russian, for example, so many Ukrainians make mistake of rejecting these words because they sound "Russian". The same goes vice-versa - when Russians claim that Ukrainian borrowed the words from them or from Poles while those are of common Slavic origin. Anyways, languages are to complicated to pinpoint them like that

Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles fall into the same group on the MDS diagram (way of expressing phylogenetic distance between organisms), which reflects the variability of the Y chromosome (genetic distance), which indicates their genetic relationship and common origin. Russians do not have Y-chromosomal haplogroups Q and C of the Khazars and Mongols.

It's an interesting fact. Russian internationalism was very well promoted by Orthodoxy, due to the fact that it was supranational, that helped to unite a huge number of peoples and nationalities under the leadership of first Rurikovich, and then the Romanovs.

I'm Russian and I would only be glad if Russians belonged to the Finno-Ugric. Finno-Ugric is very unique in comparison with the Slavic

I thought you were gonna talk about how the Kievan Rus really were a North Germanic (Nordic) people that settled the land (since that's what vikings do) and just blended in with the Slavic people who already lived there, but I guess I was not so pleasantly surprised that this bullshit theory exists and people are seriously buying it.

Depends how to define slavs. The only "scientific" definition concerns the language. There is no specific genetics about it, genetics is not bound to the language. Nor is it bound to ethnicity or nationality. Southern slavs differ sufficiently from the western ones, on the level of genetics, and Moscow dwellers are much more genetically close to Poles, than to the population of Arkhangelsk, that is more close to Finns (genetically). Russian language is, no doubts, Slavic, and overwhelming majority of ancestors of modern ethnical russians spoke russian, that is slavic, in the end of pre-industrial era, when mixing and migration radically increased. Nowdays there are other russian speakers, and some define even afro-russians as slavs, although it is quite confusing. Still, it is possible to define as a slav a person, most of whose direct ancestors spoke some slavic language in pre-industrial era.

Here in France a lot of people dening the fact that french's ancesters was the celtics gauls

As a slav you can always understand enough similar slavic words in any sentence spoken by another slavic language speaker, to understand each other. We do this every day in the Balkans & in slavic eastern Europe. A slavic language speaker will never walk away from another dialect slavic language speaker, confused & not understood?. We done that in Yugoslavia, & in Donbass, Crimea, Russia. We all understand each other quite quickly in any conversation amongst us, older we are, the easier it is to understand other slavic language speaker.

This is like the Albanians who claim that all the Balkans are Albanian lol

Hearing this for the first time. As an outsider, seeing all af the shared cultural elements of the countries involved, it seems a really outlandish idea. Truly wierd that it is taken seriously by some.

Thank you for this very informative video,I have often discussed this very topic with my wife who is an ethnic slav from Rus, additionally I commend you on your excellent grasp of spoken English 👍

Im Russian and I understand 50% of Polish.. never learned polish

Another way to prove this: Russian folk, please try to listen to the lyrics of the "song of the sword dancer" ost from the witcher 3. Apart from the word for "spear" which is completely different, I can understand without a problem

Right, that's what I thought when it came to intermarriage: the Mongol/Tatar elite sometimes married into the elites of conquered peoples, but of course the elite comprise a very small part of any population. I remember reading that the name Sheremeteev is of Tatar origin, with the "-emet-" part of the name coming from "Ahmed."

Just how The mughal empire did not change the demographic of modern India and majority population of India is still Hindu . I can understand the similar circumstances cause the Mugal period (in which many steps were taken by them to change the demographic of India) India lasted more then the British Colonial India

Being from Balkan, it is very funny to me to see these language comparison charts, especially the one with months...

side thought , as a czech i find russian a bit easier to understand (at least some words and sentences) than polish. polish just sounds really odd to me. maybe its because im half german.. but yeah i dunno.

Danes, Swedes, Norwegians 1000AD: - You're not proper vikings, haha! Danes, Swedes, Norwegians 2000AD: - You're not proper vikings, haha!

Unrelated to the video,but what's your view of Armenians? The current russian goverment isn't very friendly to us,but i'd like to know what the people think

Habbi your videos are awesome! Thanks for the content!

9:50 those territories weren't under Polish rule for 400 years. On that map for example, Southern-Estonia was part of Commonwealth for.. 40 years?

Croatians are descendants of Illyrians. Serbs came from outer space. Macedonians are descendants of Alexander the Great. Or so some "historians" claim...

I live in Poland. I'm having lots of conversations about politics and history, and not a single person have denied the Russian Slavness.

Very good argument... But there are many genetic maps that link slavic Russians with almost all Europe to the west of the Elba in Germany

Funnily enough is that the commonly held belief is that Russian is a Slavic cultural group that originated through Swedish Varangian conquest which brought a uniting factor to the region which was previously more diverse and less settled. This happened through trade and prosperity brought through ties to the Byzantine empire and the Silk Road. This was the famed Kievan Rus and some believe the Rus in Russia is Norse and either stands for rowing (since they were the people that rowed down the Dnieper to trade with the Byzantines) or that the Rurikids were of the tribe of the Rus or the Rus is derived from the Rurikids. In response to that the Russian Khaganate theory popped up trying to prove the Slavicness of Russia via saying:“hey we got this Arabic scholar who at some point maybe was in the Eastern European steps and wrote about a Khan of the Russians, so it is only logically that the Russian ethnicity and cultural identity is derived from the migration into Western Europe and it could never have been just a mistake from a complete outsider and stranger to the culture who had no real interest in representing the culture and lands accurately through the eyes of a Russian. That is also why he is right, I am wrong, the Russian chronicles are wrong and Sweden sucks and Germanic people are an illusion by the Khazar Jews who secretly control Germany and are trying to destroy the Russian identity by genociding Poles. That’s how it must have happened right?! Just to make things clear*, *and by clear I mean thousands of unorganized words that were cobbled together in a rambly manner that puts any pseudo scientist to shame The Rurikids were a Norse dynasty that came to the Region of Russia for one reason or another and thrived there for many centuries, they assimilated into the Slavic population and laid the foundation for a future Russian State by introducing common laws the slovaniscan pravada if I am not mistaken, if I am please correct me on that, a common language for ceremonial stuff (or at least lead to its spread) which was old Church Slavonic, later they converted to orthodox Christianity because of their ties to Byzantium and generally lead a powerful un-centralized political entity that ruled over large parts of Eastern Europe. (Which also makes Poland older than Russia by about 3 or so centuries) They brought some Germanic and Norse customs to the Region which have been documented, like boat burials which is one of the many reasons Russia is in many ways different from Western Slavic nations. Since the beginning the developments in the region tended towards the Greeks instead of the Roman West, aka Catholic vs Orthodox and the Rurikids are responsible for most of those developments (! I am not saying that Russians are a Germanic people, if someone thinks that they are they are stupid and should be slapped with some rotten Swedish fish to remind them that German supremacy is not a thing, because ofcourse they would either be German or bloody American!). Then came the Mongols and brought Mogol administration with them which included, getting raided, being extorted for what ever could not be taken in a raid and just generally getting trampled on, this laid the ground work for Russian Authoritarianism by destroying urban developments and generally meant that Russia would for ever be drawn towards the East. Where the Kievan Rus was a generally well developed Early Medieval society that had powerful cities and skilled craftsmen that made products that were traded along the Dnieper and the Baltic, a society that was fully feudal but had a distinct pagan flare, the Moscovite Russia was a country driven by serfdom and semi slavery. This was possible because the Mongols burned the Kievan Rus to the ground, which meant what came after was thoroughly Russian, but also not at all European. The Tsardom was a brutal and unforgiving regime and this Regime is what people feared, not the Russian people. It is easy to see why people wouldn’t call the Russian Tsardom Russia, because it was not really slavic, it lacked the necessary institutions like a powerful merchant class that could push for a liberal economy, it lacked the Catholic Church that provided a basic blueprint for what a state is and the oversight the church could have at times over especially tyrannical monarchs. Even to this day Poland is closer to Germany, a Nation that like Russia claims with its name to have jurisdiction over all the peoples with its name that is rooted in ethnicity and well to some extent genocide (in the broader sense less Nazis and more Prussian Crusaderstate that forcefully converts Prussians to Germans, in Germany the minorities were the sorbs and the Slavic peoples of Silesia), then to Russia even though there are many conflicts and much potential for conflict between the two, mostly because Russia is just a scary authoritarian nightmare who’s leadership structure didn’t really change since the Mogols declined. It’s sad to see peoples that have so much in common divided by just bad borders and terrible countries, Belarus and Russia are the last true dictatorships in Europe and it does not look like this is going to change any time soon.

Sounds like we got another flat earth strain. Automatic translation between Russian/Ukrainian and Polish/Chech is flawless. Languages are like 60% understandable. Only Bulgarian quite different due to no cases and analytical type

Those "funny pictures" are always not telling the full truth. Like at 9:05 Every slav says "Oko". Yes, it is true that Russians say "Glaz" but "Oko" is also a Russian word. It is another way of saying it! Russians say "Sobaka" for dogs. But they also say "Pes" like all the other Slavs! Also Russian traditional clothing looks nothing like Finnish traditional clothing!

If Ukrainians follow the ideology of Franciszek Duchinsky, then they must give up half of the territory of Ukraine. That man (Polish chauvinist) said that everything east of the Dnieper River is inhabited by Muscovites. According to that ideology, the Muscovites inhabit 50% of today's Ukraine.

5:12 "Russian do not understand the languages of other slavs" so Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine, Bosnia and Croatia and slovenia to a lesser extent do not exist ? I am Bulgarian not Russian

Some Slavs: Russians aren't Slavs. Serb: BSOD Ehhhhhhhhhhhh?!?! Does not compute. Let's be real people, lexical differences are there because we learned/re acquaintanced ourselves of different concepts from different people at different times. It's down to who was our occupier to from whom do we draw our influences. Because let me tell you, from the Southern perspective Western Slavic languages are kinda less intelligible than Eastern ones. No not because "they are not really Slavs", but more because they operated for last 1000 years in the Western culture and society. Meanwhile we kinda relearned of each other with Eastern ones via Orthodox church and even that is kinda marginal.

I'm ethnic non-Russian living in Russia. And when they call Russians Finno Ugric this makes me puzzled. Because it's me and some other about 2 mln guys who are Finno-Ugric. And even speak a Finno-Ugric language which has nothing to do with Russian

"Russians are not Slavs" because it's much easier for Ukrainian Ultra-Nationalists to explain to people that they're fighting a century-old conflict against Asiatic Finno-Urgic barbaric Muskal subhumans than against their own kin who just happen to have different political views.

Old Soviet joke. Kids of different countries are given the task to write an essay on elephants. UK: "Industrial use of elephants" France: "Sexual life of elephants" Germany: "Elephants are predecessors of tanks" USSR: "Russia is the birthplace of elephants"

if we talk about Russians in general, they have a difference, but this difference is manifested only in the northern part of Russia, which differs by Y-chromosome from the residents of the center and below the regions. Basically, genetics is based on Slavic, only northern Russia (Vologda-Arkhangelsk) tends to another cluster of populations.

That Indian example was very much on point!

So if Russian people are closer to Finns than slavs and the Hungarian language is closer to Finnic than Slavic, does that make Hungarians also Finns? (Sarcasm btw)

European countries are insistent on gatekeeping ethnic boundaries to an absurd extent. It all boils down to feeling like you're a special member of an exclusive group that has the position to leave out people who want to be in it.

Russians are indeed mixed with Finno-Ugric peoples, but so what? LOL. North Russians (especially in areas like Arkhangelsk Oblast, St Petersburg, Karelia etc.) are indeed genetically cluster closer to Finno-Ugric peoples because they had ancestors which were Russified over time in history, but Central and especially South Russians have been shown to cluster more closely with other Slavic peoples like Ukrainians and Belarusians. Also the Rurikids (Rurik, Yaroslav the Wise, Vsevolod the Big Nest, Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible etc.) have been found to belong to Y-DNA Haplogroup N1c1 which is most typical among Finno-Ugric peoples (rather than Haplogroup R1a or I2 which is most typical for Slavs and I1 for Swedes) - yes viking themselves were very mixed and it defined a job rather than a singular ethnic group - and that included some Finno-Ugric peoples as well, including the ancestors of Rurikids who probably became Norse vikings in and around the Uppsala area of Sweden.

Ukraine was also occupied by mongols

judging by genetic studies, we can say that yes, Russians are not Slavs. Only from the northern part of Russia. (West)

I once heard that a Slavic country can’t be Slavic if they don’t hate their neighbour Slavic country and if that’s true this basically means that they are all Slavic...

If we use the same logic on south slavs, they shouldn't be considered slavs but illyrians/thracians and other balkan nations , and west slavs are very mixed with germans and baltics

Anglo Germanic historians whenever Slavs are in question always have this dismissive view like nothing is Slavic one day portal opens and bunch of Slavs just appeared

As a Serb, I never use the term Slav, because in history that term was not used. There were also designations LEŠANIN - A PEOPLE who lived in the mountains and forests, Poljani - a people who lived in the fields, since the people lived by the rivers, they bore those names. Next to Drina - Podrinci, Next to Morava - Moravci, Elbe - Polabci, etc. There was also a division on the issue of language, the same language and those who are mute....the end

So Serb here did one of those dna tests and it came out 100% Balkans with for some reason population of Peloponnesus in Greece as closest match. Also usual Bosnia, Serbia , Montenegro and Croatia and also Romania . But for some reason Peloponnesus was top…

I've been watching this channel for quite a while and I was always impressed by the quality of the videos, only now I realized it's quite a smaller channel than I thought You, sir, deserve way more followers and views! Thanks for teaching more and more about Russia :)

As a Czech person, I feel that Czechs and Poles generally only understand each other when they are given no other choice. So for example in my UK school there was a Czech girl who became really good friends with the Polish kids because I refused to just speak Czech with her (for complex reasons for another day) and so she went and made friends with the polish kids because they both didn't speak English that well but could understand each other ok and started listening out for similarities more. I couldn't understand the Polish kids on the other hand because by the time I had an opportunity to be friends with kids from my neck of the woods I already spoke English fluently so there was no drive to look for those language similarities. Similarly while living in czech I remember never being able to understand Slovakians (even though our languages are nearly the same), but once I moved to the UK, it somehow magically became easy to understand them. What I'm trying to say is that the way people experience/perceive similarities in languages is in my opinion greatly influenced by context and necessity.

Someone already pointed this out but in 0:36 when you say "Serbs", you are showing a clip of Bulgarians, not Serbs.

I had read somewhere that many Russians from North West are of Baltic ancestry. Slavified Balts. I do not know if this is true.

Duchinsky's thesis and stance towards Russia makes much more sense if we take into context the fact, that Poles in his life time fought tooth and nail for their independence. Including intellectual arena.

There is no such things as a pure Slavs, we are all mixed. And DNA is older then any nation or ethno-linguistic groups, so it doesn’t make anyone more or less Slavic. We Balkans Slavs also mixed with locals when we moved to the Balkans.

Setarko why are you not more popular idk if you'll see this but I love your channel never stop it keeps me going and its so funny and interesting. I'm feeling really emotional rn I guess. Setarko simp

The terms "Slaves," "Slav," "Slavjani," and "Slavni" historically refer to a diverse group of individuals predominantly associated with the Macedonian populace, alongside allied groups such as the Dardanians, Illyrians, Thrachians, Epirotes, and Thessalians. The etymology of these terms can be traced back to the period following the conquest of the Kingdom of Macedonia by the Roman Empire. During this time, a notable practice involved the procession of gold and enslaved individuals from Macedonia through Rome, wherein Macedonians, distinguished by their association with Alexander the Great, served as exotic exemplars to the Roman populace. Consequently, the designation "Slaven," derived from the native Macedonian name, became synonymous with fame or renown, particularly in the context of Alexander's legacy. This linguistic association extended into the English language and the broader ex-Latin world, where "Slave" acquired connotations of renown akin to "Alexander." However, it is noteworthy that while "Slaven" attained this significance in the Western linguistic sphere, its equivalence to "Slave" is not universally applicable across all Eastern Slavic languages. In Latin, the term for "slave" is "Servus," leading to subsequent historical shifts wherein Latin historians replaced references to Macedonia with "Servus," eventually contributing to the emergence of the toponym "Serbia" as a Latinized rendition of "Slaven." Subsequent to the Roman conquest, a significant exodus of individuals from the region ensued, with many seeking refuge in northward and northeastward directions, ultimately settling beyond the confines of Roman dominion. From the 8th century AD onwards, a gradual migration of these Slavic (Macedonian) populations back to their homeland commenced, facilitated by linguistic affinities and the relative similarity of dialects, culminating in their resettlement.

Hey setarko maybe you can make a video about Anaklasniki or how I call it "The russian Facebook"

9:50 I'm not Polish, but nice pronunciation of Rzeczpospolita

I don't understand to that Slavism, in my opinion it's a bit outdated construct similar to Pangermanism . I don't know what a Dutchman would say if you said in a documentary about georaphy that The Netherlands is the little brother of Germany and England, or a report about the USA that it is the big brother and economical leader of Anglo-Saxon family. :-D :-D I think that, for example, there is a similar difference between the Czech guy, the Northern Macedonian and the Russian as between the Austrian, Swedish, and the people from the USA. Or Italian, French and Argentine. Same language group, but different countries and histories. I think the people of a country are most similar to their neighbors, mostly.

10:19 Mushroom in Serbian/Croatian=Gljiva (fungus) but the common word is Pečurka.

Not true, i have Ukrainian and Russian origins by mother side, I know Russian language and I understood a friend of mine when she talked in polish. I have another friend that he is Slovenian, i understood even a bit of slovenian when he talked in is language. "Muh Russians not slavs, muh Russian language is not Slavic"

An extensive analysis of the Russian pool of paternal lines presented here establishes the following general features: (1) the insignificance of the eastern gene flow, emphasized by the absence of typical haplogroups of Eastern and Central Asia; (2) well-pronounced gradients from north to south of specific haplogroups in the historical Russian region; (3) division of its general diversity into northern and central-southern populations; (4) the proximity of the northern populations to the Northeastern and eastern non-Slavic populations, which implies extensive assimilation or even direct language change; Russian Russians (5) lower Y-chromosomal variations throughout central-southern historical Russia compared to high variations among northern Russians; (6) proximity, achievement of virtual coincidence in the MDS plot, in the Y-chromosomal variation between central-southern Russians with Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles; and (7) this significant intra-ethnic differentiation of the North Russian population is the only exception to the rule found; in the broader European context, interethnic (mainly linguistic) differences strongly prevail. Russian Russians' Y-chromosome pool in their historical settlement zone is predominantly a composite composite of their Proto-Slavic heritage and, in particular, in the Russian North, extensive admixture with Finno-Ugric speakers. This bipartite scenario of the main sources of origin of modern ethnic Russians is supported by the analysis of classical markers presented here and can be used as a working hypothesis for a better understanding of the genetic diversity and demographic history of Eurasian populations. Its patrilineal aspect can be further clarified by a detailed study of STR variations in phylogenetic biliallel haplogroups, although new informative SNPs should be identified for deeper progress, in particular, given that only a small part of the Y chromosome has been studied so far for markers potentially informative for phylogeographic research3. www.cell.com/fulltext/S0002-9297%2807%2900025-0

"Each side refuses to do the actual research" So you're saying the researched answer doesn't exist regardless?

the clearest thing to me is that people will use the pettiest nonsense to pick a fight.