Chuds Watching the Forest

SAMI (LAPPS) KARELIANS SAMOYED PEOPLES PERMIA (BJARMLAND) CHUDS Alaborg (?) Ladoga Belozero EARLY RUSS? Tverovo (Yaroslavl) Sarkoye Gorodische KIMAKS LIVONIANS SUOMI (FINNS) VESPIANS HOLMGARD (Novgorod) Pskov Polotsk Gnezdovo (Smolensk) MESO KURS LETTS LITHUANIANS PRUS DREGOVICHES RADIMICHES SEVERIANS Lyubech Cheringov Sambat (Kiev) EAST POLANS DREVLANS WHITE CROATS MAGYARS GOTHs Gusliyev (Eupatoria) Chersones Sudak WALLACHIANS DANUBE BULGARS SKLAVENES Preslav Adrianople Constantinople GEORGIA AVARS Derbent Trebizond Tiflis SHIRVAN KURs Grobin Kaup Vishy Eysyslaus UPPSALA POLES MORAVANS SERBS CROATS Black Sea

A historical map of Eastern Europe is overlaid with a red-framed cartoon showing three stern, bespectacled men staring forward from a misty forest. The joke comes from portraying the Chuds, an ancient people marked on the map, as an intimidating group of identical angry men; it is sent as an absurd reaction to something mysterious, threatening, or culturally obscure. EN: A historical map of Eastern Europe is overlaid with a red-framed cartoon showing three stern, bespectacled men staring forward from a misty forest. The joke comes from portraying the Chuds, an ancient people marked on the map, as an intimidating group of identical angry men; it is sent as an absurd reaction to something mysterious, threatening, or culturally obscure.

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