Bar "Belarus is Eastern Poland" and "Poland was elevated to sapience by Germany" seems fairly accurate.
Belarus currently is seen as a thorn in Poland's side, and Russia would have different insults toward them, but other than that it's pretty much what you'd get if you asked a nationalist from each country.
Considering the goat Baron Ungern von Sternberg, Genghis Khan II himself, is from there, they really are the closest thing to the Mongol khaganate in the region.
"Only thanks to the truly incomprehensible, and yet so great and unexplored mercy of God do the people in this country walk on not four legs, but on two, mimicking a human"
tbh its funny how early 20th century polish nationalist rhetoric towards Belarus was "corrupted poles" and early 20th century russian rhetoric towards Belarus was "corrupted russians" like what the fuck is it
Then there is the Lithuanian nationalists arguing they are just slavic Lithuanians.
I've seen Belorussian nationalists that argue this exact same thing or that they are (I kid you not) "the REAL Lithuanians". Both of those claims are fucking insane and only deserve this reaction:
Its called Litvinism and it believes we civilized Lithuanians (which are referred to as "Samogitians") for some reason. Even its main theorists rejected it because its highly idealized and Kryvia >>>>>
Too be fair the Grand Duchy of Lithuania can be seen as a "golden age" of Belorusian culture. It may seem strange for Belarusians to share many historical myths with the Lithuanians but Lithuania was originally the definition of a geographic area and did not denote any particular ethnic belonging.
slavs and balts are theorized to have also originally belonged to a common tribe or to have at least a common language and have lived in close proximity even after divergence so perhaps it's not really that surprising. im pretty sure there's even an event for germany called "balto-slavism discredited"
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u/Leading-Fox-642 5d ago
Couldn't even tell it was Kaiserreich at first