--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Khmelniki wasn't an intellectual for sure. And if he
> was a revolutionary, then I'm agin it. His memory
> haunted Jews for hundreds of years. My Hungarian
> grandmother, whose family came from a town on the
> Ukrainian border, would spook us as kids by telling
> us
> that if we did this or that or other otherwise
> misbehaved, Khmielniki would come for us. When as a
> teenager, I found out the bogeyman was a real
> person,I
> asked whether she knew this, she didn't; it was
> something her mother had used to keep her own kids
> in
> line. Then I learned more and found out why.
>
His statue is in the center of downtown Kiev. I think he's on the currency too. He's Ukraine's national hero. Taras Bulba is based on him.
One man's mass slaughter is another man's heroic struggle for liberation. :)
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