I Might Even Pin This Just Because. Yes.

LOOK, LIETUKR HOLDING HANDS!!

Now that I have your attention, here’s a really cool historical event🫶🏼

Battle of Ula happened as a part of broader Livonian war that started when Muscovy (later: Russia) under Ivan the Terrible attacked the weakening state of Livonian Order. One small problem – that gradually dragged all its neighbours in. Initially, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ruthenia and Samogitia suffered losses, notably the city of Polatsk.

Then enter 1564. Muscovy’s army of ≈24 000 is rapidly advancing. So those ≈12 000 of Lithuanians and Ruthenians (self-identification term for Ukrainians and Belaruthians back then) figured that (early) modern problems require (early) modern solutions.

The battle destroyed all stereotyped ideas about military art of the early modern era. It happened not in a warm season, but in winter. It started neither in the morning nor in the afternoon, but in the evening, that is, it happened in the dark hours of the day. And it ended up a crushing defeat for Muscovy, partly due to sheer well cooperation between Lithuanians and Ruthenians, and overall their tactics, like a surprise attack of both army flanks on the forested Ula river.

Also even though they won, they didn’t manage to re-take Polatsk and some other vital terrirories to the East of the Grand Duchy from Muscovy YET (hence Belarus is not there). And this became one of the reasons the Grand Duchy completely united with Poland in 1569 (Unia Lubelska).

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I've noticed what Hetalia fans are doing

I've noticed how for the fanarts for Russia, he was drawn with sunflowers. I want to give you a heads up that this is not the official country's flower.

Their flower is Chamomile.

The sunflower is Ukraine's national flower!

If you are a Hetalia fan and want to support Ukraine. Then I'd advise you to stop drawing Russia with the sunflowers or UwuU RusSiA He SOOOOOOO MisUNdERStOoD. Seriously, I am tired of people putting all of Slavic culture into Russia's culture. The Russian Empire was built on by destroying other cultures and pushing to be an imperialistic empire.

The sunflower is Ukraine's national flower!

hi anon TYSM YOURE TOO KIND!!!!! 🥹🥹🥹

i will be doing taiwan too soon but in the mean time i got distracted by belgukr....bc i was convinced it was a random crackship but was pleasantly surprised to find out they actually have a historical basis....

so here, have their first meeting in the 12th century! pls dont judge the inaccurate clothing lol

Why yes I did indeed draw them for Valentines Day don't you worry! Anyway they're supposed to be wearing the outfits from the Valentines café collab (Lovino doesn't have his grey jacket because I kind of hate it ngl)

Some first draft sketches

sorry I love this painfully mid media so much I could throw up

Ah yes, linguistic dick jokes, that‘s what they un-shadowbanned me for. Immature? Yeah. Did I laugh when I realised? Yeah. So here it goes 😗 will I get sb‘d again? LOL.

(for those who didn‘t get it, Prussia in Latin is „Prutenia“ (according to wikipedia) and yeah it‘s similar to one of the common words for dick in Ukrainian, at least in the region I‘m from. Haha Eli how funny shit like this is exactly why you have no friends irl idiot. As far as I checked the two words are linguistically unrelated, just in case you wonder)

THE CHILDREN YEARN FOR THE FANART OF UKRAINE

pov: You’re Poland; its 1620s and those "free armed folk" to the East, some of whom occasionally take part in wars on your side, have been more and more rebellious lately. You ride up to check what’s the deal — and as you pass one of the Cossacks, as they call themselves, the guy looks suspiciously similar to Ukraine herself…

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1569. Lithuania had never been fond of Unia Lubelska that would unite the lands of the Grand Duchy with the Polish Republic. Yet Poland suddenly annexed Ruthenian – Ukrainian parts of the Duchy, using this move to pressure Lithuania back to negotiation tables.

Thus the era of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth began.

For mainly Orthodox Christian Ruthenians, it only meant more tension with Catholics and szlachta nobles who realised they now acquired more serfs up for grabs.

There is no wonder then, that Ruthenians quite rapidly "cossack’ed" (покозачились) in such conditions. Many joined either free warrior communities or the rejestrowe wojsko zaporoskie under the polish crown’s service, but still able to do a fair deal of whatever the hell they wanted. Including uprisings against Poland, 1591-3 and 1594-6; allying with the Poles to almost(😭) burn Moscow to the ground in 1618; and occasionally raid Turks and Crimean Tatars.

But more importantly, paving the way for a powerful warrior state, autonomous from the Polish Republic by 1649, – Cossack Hetmanate (aka Hetman’schyna, Ruthenia, or simply Ukraine – all those + more names used at the time) – which famously takes its origins in Ukraine being pissed off.

The initial headcanon was that Ukraine ran away from the Commonwealth sometime after Lublin and pretended to be a guy to live amongst Cossacks and lead her raids and battles. Now, having read up some info on female Cossack leaders, I am thinking that whilst that might have been the case initially, by 1648 everyone knows she’s a woman and just chills about it ig

Could you please draw some lietukr having a good time?🙏🙏🙏

pov: its Christmas and this shows up at your doorstep, so you know you‘re about to be robbed

They would go carolling together, mark my word

just wanted to draw something warm and cute, so hehe there you go (so tempted to write "me and who?")

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE WHO CELEBRATES IT BTW!!!!11

ah. who’d have thought 💀💀

also kanye east wtf. I’m sorry should have not tagged Estonia perhaps. should I perhaps delete it then. Sorry Estonians

the situation in question 😒

«life is like spaghetti it’s hard till you make it»

Mail Online

Italians call for Estonia Eurovision song ban due to offensive lyrics

Rapper Tommy Cash, who is representing Estonia in this year's international song competition in May, has been picked to perform 'Espresso Ma

fr lol

Imagine hating someone just for the fact of their existence that even random pics on the internet drives you mad.

But of course you don't think about it when you repost russians. They are so harmless little uwus who just wanna play in the sandbox too aww 🥺

I'm tired of banning ya'll. If you are russian, just delete yourself from my blog. I don't wanna play friends and idc what your intentions are. It's so damn hilarious to see how you like my posts on neutral topics and prefer to ignore posts where I speak about the war which your country started.

We don't care if you support us, like our blogs/art/culture etc. If you are russian, please

JUST LEAVE US ALONE WE DON'T WANNA BE FRIENDS WITH YOU PERIOD