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7/13/2025, 11:47:52 PM
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>>510290155
It's more about the massacres that Khmelnytsky and his Cossacks did, which were horrifying even for the brutal standards of the 17th century.
What's even more ironic is that Khmelnytsky paid the Crimean Tatars for their aid and services by essentially giving them free rein in plundering Ukraine and enslaving Ukrainian peasants. Paradoxically, the Polish lords tried to protect their Ukrainian serfs from being carried over to slave markets in the Ottoman empire, because for them it was a net economic loss.
The fact that Ukrainians memoryholed the fact that their first national hero is indirectly responsible for abduction and enslavement of perhaps hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians never stops to amuse.
>>510290155
It's more about the massacres that Khmelnytsky and his Cossacks did, which were horrifying even for the brutal standards of the 17th century.
What's even more ironic is that Khmelnytsky paid the Crimean Tatars for their aid and services by essentially giving them free rein in plundering Ukraine and enslaving Ukrainian peasants. Paradoxically, the Polish lords tried to protect their Ukrainian serfs from being carried over to slave markets in the Ottoman empire, because for them it was a net economic loss.
The fact that Ukrainians memoryholed the fact that their first national hero is indirectly responsible for abduction and enslavement of perhaps hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians never stops to amuse.
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