Sacha Baron Cohen modeled Borat on an unintentionally funny Russian he had met. His character started out Moldovan and then became Albanian. Borat wound up Kazakh: i.e., Cossack, like the anti-Semite Cossacks pogromists in "Fiddler on the Roof," which SBC starred in at Cambridge. https://twitter.com/SidPolitics/status/1018625973103812608 …
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I don't doubt this is true, but I don't think the Cossacks had much contact with Kazakhs: other than during the Russian expansion into Central Asia, they were a long way apart. The etymology of Cossack and Kazakh share the same root, though.
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