>>513093463
Yes, technically cousins, but they didn't really want to adopt Christianity as fast as Polanie did, which caused tensions and they got brutally invaded by the Saxons and Germanized.
>>513094220
>Fuck poles. Rurik was Ryan from Arcona.
Rurik was a Danish viking from Denmark.

>>510106433
>Both sides of my family have Cossack ancestors that used to massacre szlachta,
You do realise that szlachta in Polish Ukraine was predominantly of ethnic Ruthenian (Rurikid boyar) origin, and many were literally Orthodox as well?

P.S. Also, don't forget your origins, plebs.