Cossacks - это когда вот так а не клоуны в фуражках.

Cossacks (Ukrainian: козаки́, kozaky, Russian: казаки́, kazaki, Belarusian: казакi, Polish: kozacy, Slovak: kozácki, Hungarian: kozákok) are a group of predominantly East Slavic-speaking people who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semi-military communities,[1] predominantly located in Ukraine and Russia.[2] They inhabited sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper,[3] Don, Terek, and Ural river basins and played an important role in the historical and cultural development of both Russia and Ukraine.[4] The origins of the first Cossacks are disputed, though the 1710 Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk claimed Khazar origin.[5][6] The traditional post-imperial historiography dates the emergence of Cossacks to the 14th or 15th centuries, when two connected groups emerged, the Zaporozhian Sich of the Dnieper and the Don Cossack Host.[7] The Zaporizhian Sich were a vassal people of Poland–Lithuania during feudal times. Under increasing pressure from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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