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In the 19th century, the historical Zaporozhian Cossacks were sometimes the subject of picturesque tales demonstrating admiration of their primitive vitality and contemptuous disregard for authority (in marked contrast to the more civilized subjects of the authoritarian Russian state).
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The version that is stored at the Kharkiv Art Museum The day's the same over here as it is over there for this kiss our arse! Now we'll conclude, for we don't know the date and don't own a calendar the moon's in the sky, the year with the Lord. You won't even be herding pigs for the Christians. So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. Pig's snout, mare's arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow. Thou Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, pig of Armenia, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. We have no fear of your army by land and by sea we will battle with thee.
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Thou shalt not, thou son of a whore, make subjects of Christian sons. What the devil kind of knight are thou, that canst not slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. O sultan, Turkish devil and damned devil's kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan! The Cossacks' reply came as a stream of invective and vulgar rhymes: