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It's a lot easier to erase a geographic marker from a map than it is to change a mentality. Cossacks have lived on this land for hundreds of years. They are natural-born warriors with a tough character who are used to being free. Even after the village was eliminated from the map, they continued to live according to their traditions, combining their belief in war with Russian Orthodox beliefs and the "Russian idea".
