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Mairiel wrote:
> 
> You'd be hard pressed to find a slanty-eyed Slav.   ;)  My mama's Polish so
> I should know.  The only ones you Do get are genetic throwbacks to 13th
> century Mongol invasions of Europe (or Tartars)
> 
My maternal grandmother was from Galicia but she could almost pass
for Mongolian or Tibetan. There's quite a bit of Tatar blood in the
Cossacks' background as well IIANM.

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Odysseus