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White Man From Eastern Europe: Durov Argued with Mask About the Slavic Arabs.

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==History==The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, argued with American businessman Ilon Mask and his chat-bot Grok about the "slavic" origin of the English word "slave" (slave), while blaming Western Europe for its historical belligerence towards Slavic countries.
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==History==The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, argued with American businessman Ilon Mask and his chat-bot Grok about the "slavic" origin of the English word "slave" (slave), while blaming Western Europe for its historical belligerence towards Slavic countries.

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Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, responded to Elon Musk's post about the etymology of the word "slave" and emphasized that Slavic peoples have never made unfounded attacks on Western Europe. The discussion began with a tweet from Musk, which, based on data from the Grok chatbot, explained that the English word "slave" has its roots in the medieval Latin "sclavus", which originally meant "Slav". In his response... The post Durov contradicted…

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se7en.ws broke the news in on Thursday, September 4, 2025.
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