Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian in full Bohdan Zinoviy Mykhaylovych Khmelnytsky, Polish Bohdan Chmielnicki, Russian Bogdan Khmelnitsky, (born c. 1595, Chigirin, Ukraine—died Aug. 6 [Aug. 16, New Style], 1657, Chigirin), leader (1648–57) of the Zaporozhian Cossacks who organized a rebellion against Polish rule in Ukraine that ultimately led to the transfer of the Ukrainian lands east of the Dnieper River from Polish to Russian control.
Khmelnytsky sought autonomy for his Cossack followers but succeeded only in devastating their formerly flourishing Dnieper lands and in subjecting them to the rule of Moscow, which gained control of Ukraine east of the Dnieper and gradually curtailed their liberties.
Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky (Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богдан Хмелнiцкiи;[1] modern Ukrainian: Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький; c. 1595 – 6 August 1657) was a Ukrainian[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] military commander and Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the suzerainty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates (1648–1654) that resulted in the creation of an independent Ukrainian Cossack state. In 1654, he concluded the Treaty of Pereyaslav with the Russian Tsar and allied the Cossack Hetmanate with Tsardom of Russia, thus placing central Ukraine under Russian control.[9]
Khmelnytsky was viewed as a national hero of Russia for bringing Ukraine into the "eternal union" of all the Russias – Great (Russia), Little (Ukraine) and White (Belarus) Russia. As such, he was much respected and venerated during the existence of the Russian Empire. His role was presented as a model for all Ukrainians to follow: to aspire for closer ties with Great Russia. This view was expressed in a monument commissioned by the Russian nationalist Mikhail Yuzefovich, which was installed in the centre of Kyiv in 1888.[54][55]
Russian authorities decided the original version of the monument (created by Russian sculptor Mikhail Mikeshin) was too xenophobic; it was to depict a vanquished Pole, Jew, and a Catholic priest under the hoofs of the horse. The inscription on the monument reads "To Bohdan Khmelnytsky from one and indivisible Russia."[56] Mikeshin also created the Monument to the Millennium of Russia in Novgorod, which has Khmelnytsky shown as one of Russia's prominent figures.[57]
Chomsky denied the Pol pot genocides
ReplyDeleteNeturei karta denied 6 million were killed.
Are you denying Ukrainian pogroms?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossack_riots
Russian propaganda is largely nonsense. They are up Ukraine, so they make pompous statements. The Cossack hordes were largely Ukrainian,
ReplyDeleteAnd the neo Nazi paramilitary in Ukraine today see him as a Ukrainian hero.
A funny thing that occurs to me.
ReplyDeleteIf you're an aggressive country that occupies territory belonging to your neighbours, runs a hateful regime and seeks world domination, then Biden and the West will slap you with sanctions and try to make you miserable... if your name is Russia.
On the other hand
If you're an aggressive country that occupies territory belonging to your neighbours, runs a hateful regime and seeks world domination, then Biden and the West will try to figure out how to give you tens of billions of dollars and every concession you want to increase your terrorist activities... if your name is Iran.
Yeah, funny.
Thank Carter, Obama, for that. Maybe W Bush too, for handing a broken Iraq to them.
ReplyDeleteLviv/lvov pogroms
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_pogroms_(1941)
Oh it's totally Bush II. Iraq was the only effective counterweight to Iran on the board and he took it off.
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