As Damai Vida recalled the historical parallels of Ukraine and Croatia

The forgiveness of the Croatian footballer, Vyga's friend, to the Russian fans, "made a mistake" reaction among the Ukrainians. They were conditionally divided into three groups: the first criticized: "Vida, how are you?" All. More is not the Cossack, "the second defended:" Again watch the video and we do not know exactly what Vida apologizes. Not the fact that for "Glory to Ukraine!" But, if so, then I think he was just forced to do it. Scandal Croatia is not necessary. Ahead is the final, and the third – it's just that nothing has happened at all.

However, let's put things in order. Ohen Vukoeevich and Dagogu Vida will not stop the Russian tanks, save their lives for our soldiers, we will help release Ukrainian prisoners from Kremlin captivity … We do not need to wait a lot because they are ours, not their struggle. Croatia has already won hers. Instead of criticizing the player of a foreign team, we can bring our attention to ours, with his "Rakitsky" who does not sing the national anthem "Slavic", which supports and console the players of the Russian national team. after defeat on Croatia or go play, because has nothing to "feed the family" or … just to catch fish as all kinds of zinchenko. [19659003] But (!) Vukoevich and Vida, unknowingly themselves, have attracted the attention of the world community about Russia's aggression in Ukraine. It was time to write current international media (for a second article on Croatia Vukoevich and a scandal around the slogan "Glory to Ukraine") on the US site. The New York Times ), this scandal also recalled a serious problem of corruption of FIFA (as it turned out, organizations with a Ukrainian stance) … So in taking this situation is only useful in the Ukraine, and we leave the negative. In fact, we are uniting much more than we think of Ukrainians with Croats.

In an interview with the journalist Ukrinforma, a historian Alexander Paliy recalled that the ancestral family of distant relatives of modern Croats) Croatians – the western part of Ukraine, especially the East of Galicia and Transcarpathia, is considered:

– Mr. Oleksandr, we know that the tribe of white Croats originated in the territory of Ukraine. How does Ukraine, in particular, its western part, ancient homeland of modern Croats?

– Yes, the white Croats north of the first millennium lived on the territory of Galicia, Transcarpathia and the neighboring territories of modern Poland with modern Ukraine. Slovakia, in the territories to the north and east of Hungary

– And how did they end up in the Balkans?

– I note that the descendants of white Croats are not going anywhere, they are still among us. They took part in the ethnogenesis of modern Ukrainians, although there were other tribes: the descendants of the streets after having chased them from the steppe, as well as Buzhany and the Volynians to the north . In the middle of the 1st millennium AD, another part of the Croats went to the Balkans because of the population explosion of the Slavs and perhaps the pressure of the Avars – the Turkic nomadic tribe (there is also a version saying that they were not Avars and the Huns – for the Ural – ed.), where he settled on the lands of present-day Croatia

– And what about the Kiev region? There is such a version that near the village Bilogorodka found the burial of the Croatian leader. Could it be? Do you know something about this?

– The cultures of the chronicles and white Croats were so close that it is difficult to distinguish them archaeologically, and often impossible. Therefore, rebuilding the monuments of white Croatians IX-X centuries beyond their tribal territory is more likely to be speculation. It is necessary to carefully monitor what exactly serves as a sign of identification. If it is only the decorations inherent to the Carpathian region, they could be displaced simply because of the trade, which was then widespread.

– What Unites Ukrainians and Croats? We recall, for example, first: the pressure of the "elder brother" – Serbia (in our case, Russia) – and then the conscience: the Croats, like the Ukrainians, are openly accused of working closely with the Nazis …

– First and foremost, Ukrainians and Croats are united by language: in both languages, there is much in common. Three days later in Croatia, you have already read a menu in a restaurant, and in a week or two in general, you understand the spoken language. Although the same language community exists at home with Bulgarians and Slovaks.

Croatia is an incredibly beautiful country, with many picturesque islands with a wonderful climate, it is not surprising that the ancestors of modern Croats can not pass this country. It is true that for half a millennium, it seems that the Croats have not got used to the heat of the Balkans. The ancestral homeland of this people was cooler. However, let's go back to your question. Indeed, in the 1990s, Croatia was very difficult and similar to our way – from a young state protected by several thousand volunteers and guns, to a country that has built a powerful army for such a small country , survived and won. In the 1990s in Croatia, whose population was 4 million, there was an army of 150 thousand men. Now, in almost every city in Croatia, you will see a pantheon of dead soldiers. Croatia has twice won separatism: first a rapid military operation in the Serbian Krai in 1995 and the second time through the UN peacekeepers in Eastern Slavonia. . The operation in Eastern Slavonia lasted from 1998 to 2006 and ended with the same reintegration of the separatist enclave in the country.

Croatian (and formerly Yugoslav) propaganda in the time of Broz Tito. In the 1990s, she was also accused of fascism. In fact, during the Second World War, this people simply fought for the right to life on their land. Instead, the accusation of other peoples was that they had "too much good land." which should be chosen for the great power of someone else – that is fascism.

Miroslav Liskovich Kiev