Non-Imperial History: The Zaporozhian Cossacks. The Beginning
The history of the formation of the Cossacks in the territories of modern Ukraine and Russia had common features and causes. But there was also one fundamental difference. While in Russia the Cossacks are considered a separate, specific part of the Russian people (although some Cossacks categorically define themselves as a separate ethnic group), in Ukraine they are an integral and, without quotation marks, state-forming part of the Ukrainian nation. So the words of the anthem, «І покажем, що ми, браття, козацького роду» («And we will show that we, brothers, are of the Cossack lineage»), are not just a beautiful metaphor.
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