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The termWhite Russian has two totally unrelated meanings.

Politically the White Russians were any Russians who weren't Red, i.e. who were opposed to the Bolshevik government. In Russian they were referred to as belye (the whites), as opposed to krasnye (the reds).

The other meaning is a citizen of the country called Belarus, translated as White Russia. It's between Russia and Poland, its capital is Minsk, and it has its own language - though it's very close to Russian proper, which is also an official language. It used to be part of the USSR, and you could argue that it still is!

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