And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The origins of the Rus are much in dispute. Some postulate a Norman origin, while others insist the Rus were a Slavic tribe that founded a tribal league; the Kievan state, they affirm, was the creation of Slavs and was attacked and held only briefly by Varangians (Normans).
Sweeping across the steppes, shoulder to shoulder. Those boys came to fight or die.
ReplyDeleteThe Rus were Norsemen traders.
ReplyDeleteThe origins of the Rus are much in dispute. Some postulate a Norman origin, while others insist the Rus were a Slavic tribe that founded a tribal league; the Kievan state, they affirm, was the creation of Slavs and was attacked and held only briefly by Varangians (Normans).
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