[Cz-L] The Khmelnitzky massacre

In 1648 the Cossaks of the Ukraine revolted and massacred 100,000 Jews
  who served as tax-collectors for the Polish occupiers .
  How did they come to this round figure ?
   Well it is an estimate . A Jew more or less do not count.
   Unless that Jew is you.
    Now , new studies have been made and the new estimate is down to 50,000
!
     A stone came off my chest.
      Khmelnitzky is very much respected in the Ukraine .
     There is a Rayon (that is a district ) and a big city carries his
         name.
      Statues of Khmelnitzky on horse are to be found in all major cities.
       Because he gave back the honor to the Ukraineans .
       Independence came only some 350 years later.
         Czernowitz paid honor by naming the very jewish
              Dreifaltigkeitsgasse in his name.

             Vulitza Bogdana Khmelnitzkovo.

            Hardy
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