More Slavs live in NATO countries (chiefly Poland and then actually USA with 18 million) + friends (chiefly Ukraine).
Btw ethnic-Russian Slavs are generally rather the Slavicized Uralic serfs (in addition to all kinds of minorities such as North Caucasians, Central Asians, Siberians, and Mongoloids). Actual Slavs (and many of the specially imported Germans later) were the nobility though, with heavy Mongol influence of various kinds.
Germany used to be full of Slavs (even Berlin was Slavic) but they got Germanized almost entirely.
The original Rus (in Ukraine) was actually founded by the Vikings.
Russian total pop. is just 144 million (all the ethnicities and races), and almost twice people live just in Czechia than in Donbas (more than in Belarus too).
More Slavs live in NATO countries (chiefly Poland and then actually USA with 18 million) + friends (chiefly Ukraine).
Btw ethnic-Russian Slavs are generally rather the Slavicized Uralic serfs (in addition to all kinds of minorities such as North Caucasians, Central Asians, Siberians, and Mongoloids). Actual Slavs (and many of the specially imported Germans later) were the nobility though, with heavy Mongol influence of various kinds.
Germany used to be full of Slavs (even Berlin was Slavic) but they got Germanized almost entirely.
The original Rus (in Ukraine) was actually founded by the Vikings.
Between Russia, Belarus and Donbass that's like 75% of Slavs.
Russian total pop. is just 144 million (all the ethnicities and races), and almost twice people live just in Czechia than in Donbas (more than in Belarus too).