Moskal

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Moskal is a common surname in Central and Eastern Europe.

The word means Russian, or more exactly, "Muscovite" (a person from Moscow or Muscovy) in some Slavic languages, such as Polish and Ukrainian), but today is largely considered an archaism and often perceived as an ethnic slur.[1]

[edit] People

  • Edward Moskal (1924 - 2005) - president of the Polish American Congress
  • Kazimierz Moskal - a disambiguation page
  • Robert M. Moskal (b. 1937) - Ukrainian bishop of Parma in the USA

[edit] References

  1. ^ Edyta M. Bojanowska (2007) "Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian And Russian Nationalism" ISBN 0674022912, 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 cahoots with the devil."
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