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Moskal
Moskal (Russian and Ukrainian: ''москаль'', Belarusian: ''маскаль'', Polish: ''moskal'') is a historical designation used for the residents of the Grand Duchy of Moscow between the 12 and the 18 centuries. Today it has become an ethnic slur referring to the Russians living in Russia (or Rossiyane) used in Ukraine, Belarus,〔 as well as other European countries - former members of the Eastern Bloc (Poland, the Baltic states, etc.). The term is frequently derogatory or condescending, an equivalent of the Russian term ''Khokhol'' for Ukrainians.〔
〕 Another ethnic slur, ''katsap'' is insulting and means "goatee beard".
== History and etymology ==
Initially, as early as the 12th century, ''moskal'' referred to the residents of "Moscovia", the word literally translating as "Muscovite" (differentiating the residents of the Grand Duchy of Moscow from other East Slavs such as people from White Russia (Belarusians), Red Ruthenia (Galicians) and others). With time, the word became an archaism in all the Eastern Slavic languages, and survived only as a family name in each of those languages — see below.〔Edyta M. Bojanowska (2007) "Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian And Russian Nationalism" ISBN 0-674-02291-2, (p. 55 ): "In the 'low', folksy world of the provincial narrators, a Russian is a ''moskal'' ("Muscovite")", a foreigner and an intruder, at best a carpetbagger, at worst a thief in league with the devil."〕
The negative connotation, however, came in around the late 18th-early 19th centuries in the form of an ethnic slur labelling all Russians. At that time, soldiers of the Imperial Russian Army (and later those of the Soviet Army) stationed in parts of present-day Ukraine and Poland became known as ''moskali'', and those men who were drafted by force into the Army were described in Ukrainian as taken ''into moskali'' (). Because most of them, after serving in the Army (for 25 years, at some periods of Russian history), kept speaking in Russian beyond demobilization, the word obtained its negative connotation and applied to those who lost their roots as well.
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