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Posted by lermontov 3 days ago

Inventing Cyrillic (2024)(www.historytoday.com)
46 points | 105 commentspage 2
nikolay 17 hours ago|
The Greekification and Russification of history is disgusting! Cyril and Methodius were Bulgarian; there's plenty of evidence about it, and they created the Glagolic alphabet, while the Cyrillic alphabet is 100% Bulgarian-made without any doubt. Not to mention that Old Bulgarian was the official language in Russia for a while - all this confirmed by honest Russian scholars. But, hey, can the Soviets allow a small country like Bulgaria to be so important for its culture, right? But it's disgusting how "Orthodox" nations are being so nationalistic, love to erase, and rewrite history. That's not Orthodoxy!

Do you know that the first concentration camp in Europe was actually in Greece [0], and Bulgarian priests were put in it and died? So Orthodox, right?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo_Trikeri

jltsiren 16 hours ago|
Cyril and Methodius were Roman citizens, as was their father. Whatever ethnic roots they had was a secondary concern, much in the same way as it is in the US today.
konart 1 day ago||
Most of the article feels like a straw man made from a very old birch bark.
bulgarboris 1 day ago|
For people who don't get the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_bark_manuscript#East_Sla...
dryarzeg 1 day ago||
> Just after the invasion of Ukraine in July 2021

Just what type of slop this one is? It was not "just after the invasion", it was ~7 months before the invasion. At least if I understand correctly that the start of Russo-Ukrainian war is called "invasion" here.

cynicalsecurity 22 hours ago|
Poles and Czechs are happy they dodged that bullet.
AndriyKunitsyn 19 hours ago|
And I'm happy that they are happy, but Czech keyboards have so many letters they have to use the number row, and Polish words, as beautiful as they are, have a lot of digraphs.
LfLxfxxLxfxx 19 hours ago||
and even a tetragraph: szcz=щ