Comments by "Biały" (@Bialy_1) on "I Used To Like Putin A Lot #putin" video.
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@Gene_Pondacres From wikipedia: "A Russian name for oseledets, khokhol (Russian: хохол, IPA: [xɐˈxol]), is commonly used as an ethnic slur for Ukrainians." -> "Historically, Ukrainians used the term khokhol amongst themselves as a form of ethnic self-identification, in order to visibly separate themselves from Russians.".
And in Poland it is also used to describe Ukrainians but it also have more common meaning-> Chochoł:
It is the name of the straw covering of the fruit tree for winter(to protect young trees from freezing) or simply straw arranged in a sheaf.
There is also the funy fact that you can find another article about slighty different haircut:
The czupryna (Polish: wysokie polskie cięcie, podgolony łeb, łaszczówka), also known as the Polish halfshaven head, is a traditional Polish noble haircut, associated mainly with Sarmatism, but worn by Poles in the Middle Ages too. It is marked by shaving hair above the ears and on the neck at the same height, with longer hair on the top of the head. For hundreds of years it was typical of Poles.
History
The origins of the halfshaven head are not clear. It was probably worn before the 12th century until its slow disappearance in the 18th century. Some of the earliest mentions of the "Polish halfshaven head" from the Middle Ages were written by an anonymous Franciscan in 1308,[1] Wincenty from Kielcza[2] (half of 13th century), and Austrian poet Zygfryd Helbling (end of 13th century),[3][4] who was swearing on Polish and Czech influences.[clarification needed] In the chronicles of Mierzwa (beginning of 14th century) from Cracow, we can also read that Prince Leszek the Black (died in 1288) grew his hair to ingratiate himself with Germans, so it was a scandal both in his times and in the times of the chronicle. Graphic sources include the paten (half of 13th century) from Płock Cathedral commissioned by Konrad Mazowiecki, and the paten commissioned by Mieszko the Old (year 1195)[5] for the Cistercian monastery in Ląd, and the floor from Wiślica (years 1175-1180).[6]
The halfshaven head and other Slavs
It is possible that not only Poles, but also other Slavs wore a halfshaven head. In the year 1235, the British Franciscan Bartholomeus Anglicus wrote in his encyclopedia that for the most part all the Slavs, except Ruthenians and those Slavs who were mixed with Germans and Latins, shave their heads.
Ruthenia =Ruś(in Polish) and Ukraine in old times was called Kiev Ruś ->then Moscow duke nobles invented that the duke is in fact Tsar of all ruś -> to start the expansion of Moscow to what we have today -> but initialy that idea ended up very badly for Moscow as most of the Ruś was in Polish hands and there was some serious Moscovian ass kicking when they started to implement the idea that they own everything.
Then when that plan failed they started internal prosecution and even nobles and pesants were runing to Poland and asking for help with Tsar Ivan and his six thousand Oprichniki(the first political police in the history of Russia.).
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@UshankaShow In year 2000 famous Polish Sci-Fi writer born in Lviv Stanisław Lem wrote an article about Putin Russia... and considering how many modern technologies Lem described in his books half century before they became a thing(internet, virtualreality, 3d-printing, google, smartphones, ‘Smart dust’->nanotechnology) it is kinda not a surprise that his prediction about Putin was so spot on, but in the same time it is kinda amazing how fast he was able to decipher the guy and his goals...
But Lem was in Lviv when Germans took it during WW2 and when Red Army took it from Poland and then from Germans so his view of Russians was not as white washed as you, a guy born 50 years ago in the middle of Soviet Union with no access to real history and Red Army actions during "great patriotic war"...
I also remember watching some very old Polish document about Chechen partisans and ofc there was a Polish guy among them, but i got only respect for the guy, language barrier, culture barrier and living in some mountains/forest so far awey from Poland... just to stop this "peacful" Russians.
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