An assembly or council of people, especially used historically in Slavic and Eastern European regions.
From Russian 'rada' or Polish 'rada,' meaning council or assembly, with roots in Proto-Slavic language, possibly connected to words meaning 'to advise or counsel.'
Cossack communities used the rada system to make decisions democratically centuries before modern democracies—it's a forgotten chapter of how some societies governed themselves fairly!
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