RUSSIANS ARE NOT SLAVS - The Most Ridiculous LIE in History
Are Russians really a "mixture of Finno-Ugric peoples and Tatars," and is the only Slavic remnant left in our culture merely a language? In this episode of the PostHistory channel, we'll examine one of the most persistent and politicized myths in history.
For decades, people have been trying to convince us that the ethnic foundation of the Russian people has no connection to the Slavic world. But what does modern science have to say about this? We'll turn to data from population genetics, archeology, and linguistics to set the record straight.
In this video: - Where does the myth that Russians are not Slavs come from? - Genetic map: What do residents of Moscow, Ryazan, and Novgorod have in common with Poles and Belarusians? - The influence of Finno-Ugric tribes: real scale or exaggeration? - Anthropology: What did our ancestors really look like?
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