Ukrainian influences in northeastern Slovakia?

[肃杀]

When I read about Slovakia, I always hear about the Hungarian influence in the south, but what about the Ukrainian cultural influence in the northeast? Many of the cities in the northeastern region of Slovakia have large amount of Carpatho-Russian inhabitants. An example of one of these cities is Jakubany, a small city of mostly Rusyn people (My grandfather came from there). The city is located not far south from Stara Lubovna, and it only contains just over two-thousand people.
http://www.jakubanyrecords.com/

In the Presov region there are many wooden churches, built in the eastern slavic style. There are many of these churches in the Bardejov region in the Presov district.

Does anyone else have any examples of Ukrainian culture in Slovakia? Any comments on the Rusyn culture and people?

[Windischer]

Ukrainian influence in Slovakia is negligible. Big parts of whats now eastern Slovakia are Rusyn or influenced by Rusyns (Rusnaks), however, between years 1950-1989 the communist Czechoslovakia pushed the so-called "ukrainization" of anything Rusyn. This trend still persists in "modern" Ukraine. At some times, openly declaring Rusyn ethnicity would be followed by being deported to USSR.
Rusnak (Rusyn) people ARE NOT Ukrainians, and disregard what Ukrainian chauvinists and various kinds of communists tell you.

and by the way, it shouldnt be hard for you to differentiate between village and a city, its not a hard concept Jakubany (pronounced yakoubani), in Rusnak Jakubjany [yakoubyani] is a village.

[Nurzat]

Ukrainian influence in Slovakia is negligible. Big parts of whats now eastern Slovakia are Rusyn or influenced by Rusyns (Rusnaks), however, between years 1950-1989 the communist Czechoslovakia pushed the so-called "ukrainization" of anything Rusyn. This trend still persists in "modern" Ukraine. At some times, openly declaring Rusyn ethnicity would be followed by being deported to USSR.
Rusnak (Rusyn) people ARE NOT Ukrainians, and disregard what Ukrainian chauvinists and various kinds of communists tell you.

and by the way, it shouldnt be hard for you to differentiate between village and a city, its not a hard concept Jakubany (pronounced yakoubani), in Rusnak Jakubjany [yakoubyani] is a village.

ahoj, brate

i am a rusnak from carpathians myself. we do call ourselves rusnaky (we pronounce "y" more like flat "e") and the dialect we speak "ruskyj" but it is only a dialect of ukrainian of what i can say. differences are little when it comes to words, only that we distort them a lot and pronounce them very softened. most people her consider themselves rusnaks indeed but it's clear we're the same etholinguistically. i am for regionalism, but this way you'd get all the regions in europe be separate nations. if you accept greater nations then rusnaks are part of the larger ukrainian ethnos. of course, very little ties me as carpathian rusnak to a russified ukrainian from odesa, zoporizhzhia or even to a north ukrainian from the plains of polissia, but we share enough to make us both ukrainians

[Windischer]

Rusnaks on Hungarian side of Carpathians arent really connected to Ukraine. This "larger Ukrainian ethnos" is just another nationalist myth from 19th century. We should enter a post-nationalist era.

z kotroho jes kraju?

[Nurzat]

ja z pivnoči rumuniji, pivdenna bukovyna a v toj že čas schidna hucuĺščyna ce je vony nazyvajuť nas 'huculy' a my kažemo ščo my je 'rusnaky'

[Windischer]

hm, iši šťasťa že to mohu čitati, jak by jes na mene hvaril totu bešidu ta dumaju že bym nerozumil...

no vy huculi bars zukrajinizovany, i jem čitav o tim kolis, že vas to silno ťahat na Ukrajinu. Teper mi to dochodžit.
Ja osobni nechoču ničoho mati spoločnoho s šovinisticku i nacijonalisticku Ukrajinu. Šytka česť ľudem jak byv Šeptickyj, ale Ukrajina ne.