The original painting that we lovingly ripped off is by Rapin and is called “Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turks”. This letter is in reponse to the ultimatum by the Sultan that the cossacks surrender.
They are enjoying a good laugh in responding since they had snuck in to the Sultan’s palace the previous night and cut his head off.
Repin’s painting was done when “Russian” culture was throwing off the shackles of European (really, French) culture, embraced slavishly by Peter the Great and hence alll of his court. This lasted throughout the 18th century until about the 1830’s when the “kultura” started to realize the stark beauty of peasant, folk culture and began to create music and literature incorporating peasant themes. Of course, some of the names involved in this “Russian” rennaisance were Ukrainian. i.e. Hohol, Repin. Hohol or Gogol w rote of Ukrainian village life in Russian because the Ukrainian language was made illegal.
Where's a Cossack when you need them? Tragically, their native steppes was the epicenter of the Big Bang of the 20th Century when the Kremlin stole the Breadbasket of Europe to buttress its failed experiment.
These Genocides of 12 million Ukrainians in 1921 and 1931 included several hundred thousand Mennonite and other fundamentalist German farmers that committed the error of settling amongst Lenin's and Stalin's enemy. Sad to say, this Genocide and Pulitzer Prize winning coverup did not go unnoticed by the equally depraved Hitler, who went on to commit the Holocaust 10 years later.
This is the Big Bang of the 20th Century because WWII and the Cold War were the tragic consequence of this unknown World War 1.5.
Best, blog, ever…. Who made this wonderful design?!
The original painting that we lovingly ripped off is by Rapin and is called “Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turks”. This letter is in reponse to the ultimatum by the Sultan that the cossacks surrender.
They are enjoying a good laugh in responding since they had snuck in to the Sultan’s palace the previous night and cut his head off.
Repin’s painting was done when “Russian” culture was throwing off the shackles of European (really, French) culture, embraced slavishly by Peter the Great and hence alll of his court. This lasted throughout the 18th century until about the 1830’s when the “kultura” started to realize the stark beauty of peasant, folk culture and began to create music and literature incorporating peasant themes. Of course, some of the names involved in this “Russian” rennaisance were Ukrainian. i.e. Hohol, Repin. Hohol or Gogol w rote of Ukrainian village life in Russian because the Ukrainian language was made illegal.
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