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Anonymous10/18/25, 01:31No.18083035
Define the Belarussian identity
Culturally, how are Russia and Belarus different?
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Anon10/18/25, 01:36No.18083049
If pure slavs really exist, that must be them
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Anon10/18/25, 12:07No.18084059
Being a "belarusian" is just being a russian who likes potatoes and copes about the grand duchy of Lithuania. They use the russian language, consume russian media, and their "opposition" leader lives in poland larping as a nationalist. Their unique culture is just russian peasant core with a thin polish-lithuanian veneer.
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Anon10/18/25, 12:12No.18084075
Russian culture is diverse, imperial and features influences from Caucassus and central Asia.
Belarus is like a region of western Russia turned into a state during Brest Litovsk.
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Anon10/18/25, 12:14No.18084079
By now? Nothing. 100 years ago they had a chance but soviet russification and immigration of russians completely diluted it. They simply won't exist after 2100
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Anon10/18/25, 14:32No.18084352
Russified balts, in fact everything till Moscow is russified balts.
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Anon10/18/25, 15:19No.18084459
Actual Russian here. Never been to Belarus myself, but the common perception is that of Belarus as a sort of "what if" the USSR remained to this day and modernized. Friends who went there described it as a cleaner, more cozy, racially homogenous version of Russia.
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Anon10/18/25, 19:23No.18085056
Belarusian identity isn’t just a softer shade of Russian—it’s rooted in a completely different historical and cultural experience. While Russia built an empire and imagined itself as the “Third Rome,” Belarus grew out of the forests and wetlands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Their identity formed through rural folk traditions, Catholic and Uniate influences, and a language that survived mostly in poetry and villages. Belarusian identity is tied less to conquest and more to endurance, quietness, and an almost spiritual connection to land and hardship.Culturally, Russians are outward, dramatic, and imperial—obsessed with destiny, state power, and grand narratives. Belarusians are inward, restrained, and fatalistic. Where Russians celebrate victory, Belarusians commemorate survival. Russian Orthodoxy is loud and ceremonial; Belarusian spirituality is half-Orthodox, half-pagan—lighting a candle in church, then leaving bread for house spirits. Russian language projects authority; Belarusian language carries melancholy, tenderness, and modesty.Even today, Russia expresses itself through spectacle—parades, slogans, strongmen—while Belarus expresses itself through silence, folk embroidery, and quiet resistance. A Russian yells “For the Motherland!”—a Belarusian simply endures for it. To confuse the two is to miss the essence: Russia seeks glory, Belarus seeks to outlast.
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Anon10/18/25, 19:27No.18085067
They are pretty much swampy/forest russians with lower asiatic genetics.
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Anon10/18/25, 20:17No.18085203
Belarus wasn’t part of Russia until 1780s or so. Some parts were but not most of it. The identities are strikingly different but the Soviets uprooted and erased most of it after the WW2. Much of the people in Belarus today are not Belarussians ethnically but foreign implant put there by the decree of the Communists. They did the same thing in the Czech Republic by settling gypsies from Slovakia into historic German towns, leading to delapidation and abandonment of beautiful city centers…
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Anon10/18/25, 20:51No.18085290
Belarusians are more civil and down to earth likely Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth heritage
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Anon10/18/25, 21:01No.18085320
It is the more distinct than russian and ukraine, if russia is england and wales, ukraine scotland then belarus is even further distincts than ireland is from either the two britishers
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Anon10/19/25, 06:50No.18086640
They belong with Poland.
Too bad they let their country get partitioned. Otherwise, modern Belarusians would be speaking Polish today.
