Talk:Free Cossacks

Xenophobic character as main problem in most cases

One of main problems with militia organizations of "Free Cossacks" was often their xenophobic character - only Ukrainians could participate them and sometimes even not all Ukrainians - people who supported communists (anarchocommunists, bolsheviks etc.) often were excluded, also Jews, Russians ("Moscals") and so on. A lot of people of Ukraine of that time of Ukrainian and not-Ukrainian origin who disliked this interpretation of freedom, Ukrainian independence and democracy went to other military and para-military organizations or created their own, among them: Red Cossacks, batko Mahno's Army and so on. Many people of that time (1917-23ies), who remembered very well that first cossacks ("free people by the will of God"), free people of Ukrainian steppes were of different origin, worldview, language and social status, but this didn't prohibit them to became cossacks in ancient times - claimed that revival of cossacks must be based on this, all-human basis: idea of human freedoms and rights, so nationalistic worldview was banned by them. This can be easily reconstructed from memoires of people who took part in that struggle for democracy, among them memoirs of supporters of Ukrainian Soviet Republic, of batko Mahno's Anarchocommunist Republic and so on. Serge-kazak (talk) 07:09, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Free Cossacks (concept)

FYI for anyone interested in improving this topic by possibly broadening to discuss the "concept": Free Cossacks (concept) has been proposed for deletion. wbm1058 (talk) 12:03, 6 March 2023 (UTC)