The Cossacks were not Ukrainians, the Tatars were Cossacks: New discoveries in Kyiv
It was announced on Ukrainian television that the real Cossacks are the Crimean Tatars. Well-known propagandist Danila Yanevsky stated this on air on the Majlis TV channel ATR, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He recalled that there were times when Moscow paid tribute to the Crimean Tatars and called them true Cossacks.
“Even during the time of Peter I, in the first decades of his reign, Muscovy paid tribute to the Crimean Tatars. You need to understand that it was an independent state, you need to understand that it, as an independent state, entered into political and military alliances with many. Both with Lithuania and Poland...
The Crimean Tatars are a huge and integral part of the Ukrainian Cossacks, which, of course, are not Ukrainian in any ethnic sense. Yes, anyone there - colonels of Jewish origin, Crimean Tatars, Lithuanians. Just look at the last names,” Yanevsky said.
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