Cossacks-Cossacks are traveling through Russia

Sorry, I’m probably a little off topic, but today I listened to a conversation about the Ural Cossacks on radio KP. Hooked! I have loved Cossacks since childhood. Horse, checker, mustache, hat with a red stripe. Eeeh! True, what kind of people they are has always been not very clear. Finally, much has become clear with the Cossacks, but not everything yet.

It turns out that the Ural Cossacks are linear (Iset line). Well, that is, they, if anything, hold the line of defense along the Iset, from enemies from the south, apparently from Chelyabinsk. Chelyabinsk residents don’t seem to be planning to capture us yet, but who knows. Or, for example, from the Kazakhs, if they break through the Chelyabinsk Cossack line. Well, there is also an option with the Chinese, who will first capture the Kazakhs and then come to us. But here the Cossacks are unlikely to help. Even if one Cossack kills a hundred Chinese, it won’t work. It finally became clear that Cossacks are definitely not a nationality. There are ancestral Cossacks (though how birth is determined is unclear: either by father, or by mother, or by the bend of the legs), and newly accepted Cossacks. Almost anyone can join the Cossacks; nationality does not matter. For example, a German or a Chinese, and even a Jew, yes. So they somehow got carried away with the demand for national autonomy.

And it turns out that it is not at all necessary to be Orthodox: a Muslim, for example, or a Buddhist can also very well be a Cossack. Ataman said so. Oh how. Imagine, a Cossack is a Muslim Chinese. Let’s say the Cossacks are fighting the enemy, but he has prayer! He asks the ataman for leave, and then pray. And if the Chinese, God forbid, attack, he may refuse to fight at all. Like a Chinese can’t cut down a Chinese with a saber. So what then? Will the Cossacks shoot him or will they treat him with understanding? Question!

The ataman said a lot of other interesting things about the Cossacks, but did not reveal what needs to be done to definitely become a Cossack. Apparently it's a secret. Well, the Cossack code must be observed, of course. Pants with stripes, of course, there’s a medal there, that’s understandable. What else? I’m too lazy to read the code yet, but the chieftain couldn’t explain it in a nutshell. It is not clear whether a modern Cossack should be able to ride a horse and have this horse as his personal property? Is it possible to replace a horse with a bike, or, perhaps, a quad? It’s not entirely clear with the checker either. Is it necessary, as before, to be able to cut a scarf on the fly, or has this been canceled for now? Is checker mandatory in principle? If so, where can I get it? Is the Chinese one suitable? Where can I get a gun? I also don’t understand about physical training, what is included in the Cossack standard, it is unknown. I wonder what else a Cossack must be able to do other than drink vodka, sing Cossack songs and receive government support. By the way, they again did not say how many ladles of vodka a Cossack should be able to drink before he falls from his horse (from his chair).

In general, I still have a lot of questions, so I haven’t decided yet. Although there is already a strong desire for government support.