being a rusyn and extremely proud of my tiny little beautiful minority heritage while not being pagan, eastern orthodox or greek cath. gives me such massive imposter syndrome vibes. i know modern rusyn leaders are sort of trying to divorce religion a little bit to attract the young people back but religion was and remains such a critical component of rusyn culture. and because i’m actively being Jewish im like well. can’t really say slava isusu chrystu so ahoj it is i guess. like did y’all have to make everything about the church or paganism omg 😔
also it’s not like there weren’t or aren’t jewish rusyns cause we lived together very closely and affairs did happen despite intermarriage being totally not allowed on all sides (how i became ashkenazi LMFAO) bc the rusyn boys liked the pretty jewish girls but it’s so uncommon there’s probably like three others in the world and i feel like some kind of weird fuxked up ethnoreligious show pony
