Riflehunter1776
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That part of the world was Christianized by the Greek Orthodox Church over 1000 years ago. Everything from the alphabet to the names of saints (which are the most common given names in Christian countries) are based on the Greek language. So any parallel is based on that alone, and nothing more nefarious. Western Europe was Christianized by the Roman Church. Different alphabet, different spelling and pronunciation of the same names.Yes, and no... The spelling "Nikolas" is a very common Russian spelling of the name (as well as Hispanic), and Cruz (while also a very common Hispanic last name), could have been shortened along the way from Cruzchev...Or something to that effect. Not saying it was, just pointing out that it could be a possibility. And Dimitri has always been a very popular name in the Ukraine, although his last name does sound very Greek, I will give you that.
That's where my line of thinking was... It was just thinking out loud, nothing really meant by it.
The Spanish surname Cruz means "cross" and has nothing to do with Khrushchev.
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