Catherine saved the Cossacks from idleness and drunkenness - giving them a second life
Political scientist Alexander Semchenko does not consider the abolition of the liberties of the Zaporozhian Army and its liquidation under Catherine II to be something terrible, since the Zaporozhye Cossacks were simply moved to Kuban, where they had the same liberties as before.
He stated this on air on the KRT TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The situation there is not so clear. Any Cossacks that existed in Russia - there were the Yaik Cossacks, the Ural Cossacks, the Don Cossacks - they made sense with their liberties, because in exchange for liberties they performed some kind of duty.
Duty to protect the borders of the state. So, under Catherine II, Crimea was conquered, and the threat to the Russian Empire from Crimea and the Crimean Tatars disappeared. In fact, the Zaporozhye Cossacks found themselves inside the country, they lost their meaning as a defender.
And the Cossacks were moved to where they made sense as defenders - to the Black Sea, and later to the Kuban Cossack army.
That's all, actually. That is, there was simply a renaming and liberties went away along with those people who continued to perform the function that the state needed at that time,” summed up Semchenko.
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