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Originally Posted by svin
I know of some Belarusian paganists (Gega Ruch) who, for example, say that Belarusians are Balts, not Slavs.
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Originally Posted by Plethon
Following Romuva? That's strange, but not surprising concerning the very intricate and complicated relationship between Belarus and Lithuania in the past.
At any rate, Belarusian is a Slavic and not a Baltic language.
Whiteruthenian, what do you think about that?
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It’s explainable that Belarusian nationalists haven’t ever been fond of ideas like pan-Slavism, since they were doomed to fight the cultural influence of the two Slavic neighbours – the Russians and the Poles. I think that it’s true that the Belarusians have some Baltic blood, but for me it doesn’t mean much. So what? Germans have some Baltic blood (inhabitants of Eastern Prussia), some Slavic blood (on their eastern lands), etc. Does it change the fact that they are Germanic? I don’t think so.
I tend to dislike our Baltophiles. They love legends and myths so much that from time to time they forget that they live in the real world. I do believe that in our times when Europe stands in front of abyss, to theorize, for example,
where was the island Thule is a peak of idiotism. And I notice that this idiotism of theirs puts me off and makes me more and more Slavophilic.
I’ll try to get here (on Stirpes) some of those passengers.
But many of them do a lot for collecting and saving our heritage. So they are rather a positive phenomenon.
As for the question “What is Slavic?” the answer is obvious – the Slavs are Europeans of different descent who speak Slavic languages and have some common ancestors (Ur-Slavs from whom the modern Slavs took their languages).