Day Cossack Gaucho Cowboy Amp Beyond

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~ COSSAK   see> COSSACK                          sug> CASSOCK
~ COSSACK  or KAZAK KOZAK QUZAQ KHAZAK CASSAK    sug> GAUCHO
           EPITHET or NAME for "RUN AWAY" or     sug> HYPOTHETIC
  FRONTIER MAN or ADVENTURER FREEBOOTER          sug> COWBOY
  note THE COSSACK STATE or NATION IS EMBODIED IN UKRAINE
  UKRAINE = COSSACK STATE WOULD NOT BE ENTIRELY INCORRECT
  note COSSACK often conveys derogatory ideas  as "WILD MAN"
       COSSAK  also  conveys ideas of "FREE MAN" or
       KOSAK   implies opp to SERF or  SLAVE  akin to
       GAUCHO  akin to
       COWBOY  it may imply RUSTIC  YOKEL
  IN UKRAINE AND ELSEWHERE COSSACKS ARE IDEALIZED BECAUSE THEY
  FOUGHT AGAINST SERFDOM IMPOSED BY TARTARS POLAND AND MOSCOW
  HOWEVER HISTORY RELIES ON POLISH AND RUSSIAN "DOCUMENTS"
  DEVELOOPED TO SUSTAIN THEIR COLONIAL IMPERIAL ASPIRATIONS
  WHICH HAS A TENDENCY TO SHOW COSSACKS AS A
  BRUTES WILD UNRULY BANDITS
  consider UKRAINE  SLAV  SLAVE               see> SLAVIC
  note AS COSSACK MILITARY HOSTS DEVELOPED IN UKRAINE THE
       IDEA SPREAD TO OTHER REGIONS incl DON REGION etc
  art> THE HOPAK or COSSACK DANCE CHARACTERIZED BY CHEER AND
       HIGH LEAPS IS DIRECTLY SOLELY REFLECTS UKRAINIAN COSSACKS
  hx> AS THE OPPRESSION BY THE FEUDAL AND AUTOCRATIC SYSTEMS
      AND IMPOSITION OF SERFDOM GREW UNDER POLAND AND MUSCOVY
  A GROWOING EXODUS TOWARD UKRAINE EXPOSED LARGE NUMBER OF
  PEASANTS TO THE DANGER OR MARAUDING TATARS or TARTARS
  THE REGION BECAME KNOWN AS UKRAINE or
  OKRAI  = BORDERLANDS                ak to "WILD WEST"
  U        BEYOND and
   KRAI    COUNTRY
  UKRAINE  COUNTRY BEYOND         implicitly BEYOND TYRANNY
  IN SELF DEFENSE AGAINST MARAUDING TARTARS AND LATER THE
  ENCROACHMENT BY LITHUANIA POLAND AND MUSCOW THE UKRAINIANS
  ADOPTED AND IMPROVED THE FIGHTING METHODS USED BY THE TARTARS
  THEIR RELIANCE ON THE HORSE AND MODE OF DRESS    sug> CASSOCK
  WERE TYPICAL AND CALLED COSSACK or KHAZAK = FIGHTING MAN
  COSSAKCS CLAIMED TO BE FREE AND HAVE THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
  THEY ELECTED THEIR LEADERS AND BECAME A
  MILITIA or MILITARY SYSTEM CALLED
  THE "COSSACK" "HOST"
  THE COSSACK ORDERS WELCOMED TO THEIR RANKS REFUGEES
  REFUGES COULD EXEMPT FROM EXTRADITION WHICH LED TO
  STRONG CONFLICTS WITH NEIGHBORING AUTOCRACIES
  FURTHER PROTECTION TO REFUGEES WAS AFFORDED BY THE CUSTOM TO
  REPLACE ALL SURNAMES or LAST NAMES BY NICKNAMES
  perhaps THERE IS NO OTHER NATION WHERE SO MANY SURNAMES
          ARE NICKNAMES AS THERE ARE IN UKRAINE
  note some examples starting with the NAME OF THE FIRST
       UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT FOLLOWING THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR
  KRAVCHUK    from KRAVECZ or TAYLOR
  CHAIKOVSKY       CHAIKA     SEAGULL
  KHRUCHEV ***     KHRUSHCH   SCARAB
  THE COSSACKS WERE LED BY AN ELECTED HETMAN
  MAJOR DECISIONS WERE MADE BY AN ASSEMBLY
  WHEREAS COSSACKS WERE CHRISTIAN ORTHODOX THEY DID
  NOT RECOGNIZE THE ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITIES UNDER THE
  TURKS IN CONSTANTINOPLE or under the rule of MOSCOW
  THE UNRELENTING AUTOCRATIC ASPIRATIONS OF THE TIMES
  PURSUED BY TURKEY LITHUANIA POLAND AND MOSCOW IN A
  QUEST TO BUILD EMPIRES ULTIMATELY LED TO THE
  PARTITION AND ANNEXATION OF UKRAINE AND
  THE IMPOSITION OF SERFDOM AFTER THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF
  UKRAINIAN COSSACKS WHOSE MORE DEMOCRATIC IDEALS WERE
  AHEAD OF THE TIMES
  THE LAST STRUGGLE BY COSSACKS TO REMAIN FREE WAS
  AS ALLIES OF CHARLES XII OF SWEDEN WHO FOUGHT PETER I
  THE COSSACK LEADER AT THE TIME MAZEPPA [#]
  THE IDEA OF A COSSACK AS A FREE MAN WITH THE RIGHT
  TO BEAR ARMS  FREE FROM SERFDOM AND TAXATION IN EXCHANGE
  TO BE READY TO TAKE ARMS IN DEFENSE OF THE CZAR WAS
  CONSTRAINED TO SPECIAL MILITARY UNITS RECRUITED FROM
  THE DON REGION known as DON COSSACKS
  for more see> SICH
  lit+  " THE LATE EMPRESS
          AUTOCRAT OF ALL THE RUSSIAS
  CATHERINE THE SECOND ...
  COULD FIND WHO WOULD ...        (eg Voltaire)
  PROSTITUTE ITS PEN TO
  VARNISH THE DEFORMITIES OF
  HER REIGN AND OF HER EMPIRE ...
  IN ENGLAND WE HEAR OF PERSONS SENT TO SIBERIA
  AS A VERY SEVERE PUNISHMENT ...       see>  GULAG  USSR
  THE SYSTEM OF SLAVERY IN RUSSIA ...   see>  SLAVE  SERF
  MANY OF THE RUSSIAN NOBLES ...        sug>  PUGACHEV
  FEAR OF THE VENGEANCE ...             sug>  FAMINE
  CONCERNING THE INHABITANTS OF
  THE COUNTRY CALLED MALO RUSSIA (Ukraine) ...
  AND AMONG THE COSSACKS ...
  DIFFER ALTOGETHER FROM
  THE INHABITANTS OF THE REST OF RUSSIA ...
  SUPERIOR TO THEM IN EVERY THING ...
  ARE CLEANER MORE INDUSTRIOUS MORE HONEST ...
  SUCH DISTINGUISHING CLEANLINESS ...
  THE COSSACKS ARE JUSTIFIED IN ...
  ACTING TOWARD THE RUSSIANS
  AS THEY HAVE UNIFORMLY DONE ...
  WITHDRAWING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
  FROM ALL COMMUNION ...
  COSSACKS HAVE BEEN KNOWN AS
  A DISTINCT PEOPLE                      sug> ATAMAN
  NEAR NINE HUNDRED YEARS ...
  FLED THE OPPRESSION OF THEIR NOBLES ...
  A MIXTURE OF VARIOUS NATIONS ...
  MALO RUSSIANS  TARTARS  POLES  GREEKS
  TURKS  CALMUCKS AND  ARMENIANS ...
  IN THE YEAR 948 ... THE GREEK EMPEROR  sug> RUTHENIA
  EMPLOYED THEM AS MERCENARIES IN HIS WAR
  AGAINST THE TURKS ...
  THE NEIGHBORS HAD GIVEN THEM THE NAME OF
  CHOZARS AND CHAZARS ... MENTIONED BY
  CONSTANTINE PORPHYROGENETES ... DERIVED FROM
  A TARTAR WORD SIGNIFYING AN ARMED MAN ...
  THE FREEDOM THEY ENJOY                 sug> FREE
  SURROUNDED BY SYSTEMS OF SLAVERY ...   sug> SERF
  SINGULAR SPECTACLE OF AN INCREASING REPUBLICK ...
  AS THEY DETEST THE RUSSIANS
  A DAY MAY ARRIVE   WHEN
  CONSCIOUS OF THEIR OWN IMPORTANCE
  THEY WILL MAKE THEIR MASTERS
  MORE FULLY SENSIBLE OF THEIR POWER ..."   sug> REVOLT
  {and once again Ukraine declared independence in 1991}
  in "RUSSIA TARTARY AND TURKEY" by Edward Daniel CLARKE [#]
  Fay  New York 1813 (a chronicle written in 1800)
  lit+ A VAST LITERATURE ABOUT COSSACKS AND THEIR
       HEROISM AND TRAGEDY EMERGED DURING THE "ROMANTIC" AND
  "DEMOCRATIC" PERIODS FOLLOWING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
  " THE MOON IS THE COSSACK'S SUN "  maxim     sug> PARTISAN
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& COSSACK
  see> SICH  UKRAINE  SLAV  SLAVE  MAZEPPA  GOGOL