ok i am not saying that this meme is completely without merit but its mostly bulllshit u cannot compare croatians and ukrainians.  croatia was referenced as far back as the fucken 6th century bro, many times. they had kings, king tomislav (who saved serbia btw from the bulgarians), king zvonimir, other kings.  the croaches living south of zagrebian area who spoke stokavski for centuries and centuries likely come from the same genetic pool as the serbs and yes they chose catholic and your ancestors chose orthodox and they they subsequently allied with the tribal unit that was catholic (the croaches) and your ancestores allied with the tribal unit that was orthodox (the servs).  croatians are hrvati which is a slavic bastardization of harahvati - harahvathoas - an ancient persian group that came from an elite guard unit in the persian empire. they have an old ethnonym. they arent like "ukrainians" whose ethnonym means "borderlanders". come on man. i do agree that croaches are cringe with their consciously making up words "zrakoplov" ijnstead of avion for airplane and shit tho.  but croatian kings existed, their tribe existed. in fact the croatian checkerboard is their national symbol because u know y? a lot theorize that croatian history doesnt end in persia that in fact they can be traced further back to india - around the area of the river sarasvati - hence the birthland of ches - sahovnica. the venetian doge wanted to wage war for the croatian islands and tomislav knew that the doge had pride in his chessmaster abilities so challenged the doge to 3 games of chess for the islands. the doge agreed and tomislav won - the doge respected the agreement and thats why those islands are croatian and thats why the chessboard is a croatian symbol to this day. it is a symbol of the heritage from india, the triumph of peace over war, and the cleverness of croatians (they aint that clever today i admit) do ukrainians have as ancient and rich a history as that? no
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