Abram Gannibal

Abram Gannibal

I am really starting to enjoy Biden's war on Europe. Every day we have another outstanding example of insane stupidity. Today we have the destruction of Puskin's statue in Kiev. RT reports:

A monument in the center of Kiev to the iconic 19th-century Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was demolished on Tuesday, according to co-founder of the “Decommunization. Ukraine” project Vadim Pozdnyakov.

Alexander Puskin lived in the 19th Century. He died like 75 years before the Communist Revolution in Russia, but he was a Russian and evidently that was enough to get him canceled.

But how much of a Russian was he?

His maternal great-grandfather was Major-General Abram Petrovich Gannibal, a nobleman of Cameroonian origin who was kidnapped from his homeland and raised in the Emperor's court household as his godson. 

Cameroon? You don't mean that country  . . . wait, just where is Cameroon anyway? Next door to Nigeria:

Cameroon

You're kidding, right? Nope:

Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696 – 1781), was a Russian military engineer, general-in-chief, and nobleman of African origin. Kidnapped and enslaved as a child by Ottomans, Gannibal was traded to Russia and presented as a gift to Peter the Great, where he was freed, adopted and raised in the Emperor's court household as his godson.