Rusyns and Slovaks Similarities and Differences Part 1 of 5 

I’m first generation Canadian Carpatho-Rusyn. My grandfather came to Canada in 1928 via an immigration plan. My dad came to Canada in 1934.

Nice work here John and the rest of the crew. Can't wait for part 2.

I would say this is the best explanation I've heard so far. I am a South Slovene living in Australia.We are also the most friendly and happiest of all the Slavs together with the Serbs and Macedonians and West Ukrainians. but we have more Celtic and Lombard than the Russians and Belarusians for Example.The Czechs are the most miserable Slavs I've come across and the Croats the rudest.Russians are very kind and helpful, are Slav/ Uralic . Finnish are Uralic/Ugric. Also you may not know in the 9th. century Slovaks and Slovenians were the same and Slovaks lived in Lower Austria and Slovenes in the the Danube Basin and Pannonian Plain. Also the West Ukrainians are of lighter complection and not mixed with Turkic peoples and can speak Slovenian. Slovenian is also the oldest West Slavic language spoken today and very similar to Old Russian or Slavonic. Slovenia is in South Central Europe and not the Balkans.

Thanks for producing this! Looking forward to seeing the next video.

Great video! We need something like this.

Interesting and enjoyable.

Thank you for this informative video! :D

Excellent historical explanation of how the Rusyn people evolved over time.

As a first generation carpatho-rus(Lemko) I enjoyed this very much and am anxious for more.

This is so fascinating to me. My grandparents came from Zavadka (Spisska Nova Ves) (one of the isolated gray areas in your map) at the turn of the last century. My 89-year-old father was the youngest of 17 kids and the only one who could speak "Slovak." Over the years, I've been told he sounds more Ukrainian, but we could never figure out why. He also understands many of the Ukrainian refugees on the news and understands a lot of Polish. My DNA suggests origins in the Presov and Lemko regions. For the first time, lightbulbs are turning on. I can't wait to share these informative videos with my father. Thank you!

One of most famous rusyn was Michal Strenk from Jarabina, Slovakia, he was in Iwo Jima, he died there but he and his comrades raise the US flag in this Island... Now he is in Arlington national cemetery... Please make some video, vlog about him... Thanks from Slovakia

Can you provide references, so that we can learn more? The naming of the early groups and their association with color according to Chinese cardinal directions doesn't line up with what I have read by Chinese authors, so I think I must be missing something. I would love to learn more about that and the movement and development of those early groups.

Lemko descendant in England U.K here also have relatives in New Jersey Usa. Intresting stuff

I was always told I’m “dark/black Russian”. After doing my dna ancestry my mother did discovery her grandmother was Rusyn. So what should I understand next? Is there such a thing as white and black/dark rusyn? My ancestry says subcarpathian area. My mother is very Americanized

I forgot to add, Ruthenia in the Greek language equates to a nation called Rosiya (Russia) after the Great Moscovy State was renamed to Russia. Ruthenians in Ukraine, adopted the name of borderland people, Ukraintsi, on the border of the new Russia. As Ruthenian sounded too similar to Russian, the name change to Okraina, which then become Ukraina! But the language (apart from slight regional differences is the same as Ukrainian) Glory to the Old Kyivan Ruthenia. I will add a link to the map of old Ruthenia

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It’s very obvious that Slovaks and Rusyns are different people. I would rather know difference between Rusyns and Ukrainians? This is very confusing at least to me. Please make a video.

If my grandfather referee to his lineage as black croates, means I’m not Rusyn? Just trying to understand.

For most of last thousand years, the region has been part of Hungary and yet you made no mention of the Magyar people.

Do you have more information about the “White Croats” ? Thanks!

Very good film. Be aware of your hertige don't for get it so you won't be mistaken as Ukrainians, Slovak or Poles.

Just a moment, Professor.....I thought that the Russ were Vikings? At least that is what is commonly taught in Slavic Studies circles today.....Stephan

He forgot to mention that Belarus are a mix of rus and Polish tribes with some Baltic’s tribe. Also Slovaks lived in all of modern slovakia in the past of since the early 900 AD. Just in the east near Ukraine that region was a big mixing of some rusyns polish and slovak tribes. In the end though most end up becoming Slovakian as maygars pushed many Slovaks up into the Tátra mountains range of the Carpathian Mountains. Also I hate when they use that old map of rusyn ppl that was shown in the video earlier as it only shows were rusyns lived, but not if they were the majority or not. And it marks some settlement of rusyn minorities in Hungary that had self government in their town. Again the map makes it seems like there was a lot of rusyns in Poland and Slovakia in the past when most of them resigned in what is known today as the Zakarpatskaya oblast of Ukraine. The rusyns living in the Prešov kraj of Slovakia and the Lemko region of Poland where a minority group that were mixed with polish lemko and slovak people. As greater numbers of rusyns were seen as you got closer to modern Zakarpatskaya oblast.

Rusyns its old name of ukrainians of West Ukraine(Galicia)

Why don’t you stop telling your audience what you are “going to talk about “ and just do it? Just give your lecture?

Rosiya is the stolen name of Ruthenian. Under the leadership of people the Great. The Ruthenians of Ukraine could not use a similar name to Russia, so they become Ukraintsi (borderland people) , instead of being called ruthenians. The old maps of Kyivan Ruthenia incorporate large areas of today'' Eastern Slovakia

Русинська це говірка української мови🇺🇦