I’m first generation Canadian Carpatho-Rusyn. My grandfather came to Canada in 1928 via an immigration plan. My dad came to Canada in 1934.

Nice work here John and the rest of the crew. Can't wait for part 2.

Thanks for producing this! Looking forward to seeing the next video.

Excellent historical explanation of how the Rusyn people evolved over time.

Great video! We need something like this.

I would say this is the best explanation I've heard so far. I am a South Slovene living in Australia.We are also the most friendly and happiest of all the Slavs together with the Serbs and Macedonians and West Ukrainians. but we have more Celtic and Lombard than the Russians and Belarusians for Example.The Czechs are the most miserable Slavs I've come across and the Croats the rudest.Russians are very kind and helpful, are Slav/ Uralic . Finnish are Uralic/Ugric. Also you may not know in the 9th. century Slovaks and Slovenians were the same and Slovaks lived in Lower Austria and Slovenes in the the Danube Basin and Pannonian Plain. Also the West Ukrainians are of lighter complection and not mixed with Turkic peoples and can speak Slovenian. Slovenian is also the oldest West Slavic language spoken today and very similar to Old Russian or Slavonic. Slovenia is in South Central Europe and not the Balkans.

Thank you for this informative video! :D

Interesting and enjoyable.

This is so fascinating to me. My grandparents came from Zavadka (Spisska Nova Ves) (one of the isolated gray areas in your map) at the turn of the last century. My 89-year-old father was the youngest of 17 kids and the only one who could speak "Slovak." Over the years, I've been told he sounds more Ukrainian, but we could never figure out why. He also understands many of the Ukrainian refugees on the news and understands a lot of Polish. My DNA suggests origins in the Presov and Lemko regions. For the first time, lightbulbs are turning on. I can't wait to share these informative videos with my father. Thank you!

@ericbush3399

5 ай бұрын

😂 Are the Rusyns from the Tatras? I'd really like to know.

As a first generation carpatho-rus(Lemko) I enjoyed this very much and am anxious for more.

One of most famous rusyn was Michal Strenk from Jarabina, Slovakia, he was in Iwo Jima, he died there but he and his comrades raise the US flag in this Island... Now he is in Arlington national cemetery... Please make some video, vlog about him... Thanks from Slovakia

@mikeb8140

2 жыл бұрын

Andy Warhol is another famous Rusyn,and off course Croton Fircak.and ancient Rusyn Odoakr.

@elizabethdiles96

Жыл бұрын

There is a dvd about Michael Strank; Our Flag Still Waves

@j.d.snyder4466

Жыл бұрын

mike b: wow, thanks for sharing Warhol being a Rusyn. I'm only now learning about Rusyns and until watching this clip I was getting more frustrated than knowledge. Kudos to the team for producing this series. Excellent job!!

Lemko descendant in England U.K here also have relatives in New Jersey Usa. Intresting stuff

Can you provide references, so that we can learn more? The naming of the early groups and their association with color according to Chinese cardinal directions doesn't line up with what I have read by Chinese authors, so I think I must be missing something. I would love to learn more about that and the movement and development of those early groups.

I forgot to add, Ruthenia in the Greek language equates to a nation called Rosiya (Russia) after the Great Moscovy State was renamed to Russia. Ruthenians in Ukraine, adopted the name of borderland people, Ukraintsi, on the border of the new Russia. As Ruthenian sounded too similar to Russian, the name change to Okraina, which then become Ukraina! But the language (apart from slight regional differences is the same as Ukrainian) Glory to the Old Kyivan Ruthenia. I will add a link to the map of old Ruthenia

I was always told I’m “dark/black Russian”. After doing my dna ancestry my mother did discovery her grandmother was Rusyn. So what should I understand next? Is there such a thing as white and black/dark rusyn? My ancestry says subcarpathian area. My mother is very Americanized

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It’s very obvious that Slovaks and Rusyns are different people. I would rather know difference between Rusyns and Ukrainians? This is very confusing at least to me. Please make a video.

@LukuraNana

Жыл бұрын

Study the maps of old Kyivan Ruthenian, before Peter the Great stole the name of Ruthenia from the Greek language and renamed Moscovy state to 'Rosiya' Yes, on old Greek maps, Ruthenia is called Rosiya, because of the identity theft!!

@Ruby-ze5ii

Жыл бұрын

What are you on about? I'm not asking about Ruthenia. I simply want to know difference between Rusyn and Ukrainian people🤷🏻‍♀️

@user-gw6mm3hh2y

3 ай бұрын

Rusyns are ethnic group of ukrainians

If my grandfather referee to his lineage as black croates, means I’m not Rusyn? Just trying to understand.

Do you have more information about the “White Croats” ? Thanks!

@CarpathoRusynSociety

4 жыл бұрын

Not sure what you are looking for but Paul Robert Magocsi's With Their Backs to the Mountain is an exhaustive history of Carpatho-Rusyns and you may find what you need there.

@myhal-k

4 жыл бұрын

White Croats were basically a unity of different tribes with similar dialects, which lived both sides of the Carpathians, but there is not much information online tbh. One thing we can say for sure -- modern Croats (from the country called Croatia) are also descendants of those Carpathian people. I can recommend you to check out this video from an actual Croatian historian - Rostislav Anton kzread.info/dash/bejne/iWGbk9KenNzaYZM.html

@catherinestarcic397

4 жыл бұрын

Мигаль Кушницькый thank you very much! I could understand about 25%. Is there an English translation you could make available for me?

@myhal-k

4 жыл бұрын

@@catherinestarcic397 well, that wouldn't happen rapidly, but here's something decent on Wikipedia though en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Croats

@catherinestarcic397

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent Resource to delve into & discover & learn for now! Thanks!

Very good film. Be aware of your hertige don't for get it so you won't be mistaken as Ukrainians, Slovak or Poles.

@user-gw6mm3hh2y

3 ай бұрын

Rusyns are ukrainians

Just a moment, Professor.....I thought that the Russ were Vikings? At least that is what is commonly taught in Slavic Studies circles today.....Stephan

@woofwoof7226

Жыл бұрын

I think he doesn't explain very well the ethnic name of Rus. It must have been just eastern slavic tribes. 13th century is also a bit late. Confusing to say the least.

For most of last thousand years, the region has been part of Hungary and yet you made no mention of the Magyar people.

He forgot to mention that Belarus are a mix of rus and Polish tribes with some Baltic’s tribe. Also Slovaks lived in all of modern slovakia in the past of since the early 900 AD. Just in the east near Ukraine that region was a big mixing of some rusyns polish and slovak tribes. In the end though most end up becoming Slovakian as maygars pushed many Slovaks up into the Tátra mountains range of the Carpathian Mountains. Also I hate when they use that old map of rusyn ppl that was shown in the video earlier as it only shows were rusyns lived, but not if they were the majority or not. And it marks some settlement of rusyn minorities in Hungary that had self government in their town. Again the map makes it seems like there was a lot of rusyns in Poland and Slovakia in the past when most of them resigned in what is known today as the Zakarpatskaya oblast of Ukraine. The rusyns living in the Prešov kraj of Slovakia and the Lemko region of Poland where a minority group that were mixed with polish lemko and slovak people. As greater numbers of rusyns were seen as you got closer to modern Zakarpatskaya oblast.

@user-gw6mm3hh2y

3 ай бұрын

Rusyns are ukrainians

Rusyns its old name of ukrainians of West Ukraine(Galicia)

Why don’t you stop telling your audience what you are “going to talk about “ and just do it? Just give your lecture?

Rosiya is the stolen name of Ruthenian. Under the leadership of people the Great. The Ruthenians of Ukraine could not use a similar name to Russia, so they become Ukraintsi (borderland people) , instead of being called ruthenians. The old maps of Kyivan Ruthenia incorporate large areas of today'' Eastern Slovakia

@user-gw6mm3hh2y

3 ай бұрын

Yes. Rusyns are ukrainians

Русинська це говірка української мови🇺🇦

@geotipsie

17 күн бұрын

I'm Romanian but I speak Czech. Also I understand Slovak good enough. Of course I undestand Ukrainean. If you wrote "мови" and not "язык"means you are Ukrainean! I consider Ruthenian - "Русинська мови" more similar with Slovak then "української мови".

@user-gw6mm3hh2y

17 күн бұрын

@@geotipsie no

@geotipsie

17 күн бұрын

@@user-gw6mm3hh2y 😀Dude, "no" what? It sounds like Slovak 90% . For me Ukraienan sounds like Russian - the problem is vocabulary. If I hear in Romania Ukrainean refugies usiing word like " да, делаt- Май месяц, играть I ask them "чому ти не розмовляєш українською?"and they go. Do you use words like "пес" or "собакi" , "Дякую" or "Спасибi"?But you ust undestand 80% slovak.

@user-gw6mm3hh2y

17 күн бұрын

@@geotipsie я не знаю і не розумію словацьку

@user-gw6mm3hh2y

17 күн бұрын

@@geotipsie в українській і російській 60% спільних слів, але це не означає що це одна і та сама мова, українська лінгвістично ближча до білоруської,польської або словацької, росіяни слабо розуміють українську