Talk:Early East Slavs
From Academic Kids
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Finns
I reverted the following change of the intro, made by genyo.
- The East Slavs are the ethnic group that evolved into the Belarusian and Ukrainian peoples. They also contributed a large linguistic component and and a minority ethnic component of the Russian people. Each of the many nationalities of Rus' has a separate history and complex origins. The historical origins of the Russian state, however, are chiefly those of the East Slav minority and the assimilated Finno-Ugric majority people of the North-Eastern Europe.
This theory is widely propagandized in modern nationalistic Ukrainian history. It even entered into Ukrainian school textbooks. Poor Russians. A century ago this people was attempted to be made from barbaric Huns, now they turn out to be ground-dugout dwelling finns. What next? Shipwrecked Martians turned into troglodytes?
If one wants to propagate this theory, this should be done at the main, Russians, page, where it can be compared against other theories, and only then into various summary and refernce pages. And as usual, Russians are nochalantly neglecting themselves. Mikkalai 03:42, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
