Hetman

That's what Ukraine is.

I mean, to this day, the Hetman's, the Hetman was the head of the Cossack coast.

His mace is used in the, in the Rada at Kiev, um, as a, as a sign of authority.

It's like a big mace.

The most famous is the Perosian, which is Russian for beyond the rapids, the rapids of the Dnieper, a series of islands in some of the most inhospitable parts of that river, which is where they had their sick or fortress.

They tended to be a fairly radical egalitarian nationalist movement.

Um, but within the Polish empire itself, or at least on its frontiers, the, um, the Hetman, the Hetman was the chief executive, usually an older warrior.

Everyone was a, was a warrior, every man.

And when I wrote my book, that's pretty much the idea of it.

We'll talk about the great Hetman here in a little bit.

But this is what, you know, any opposition to their dominance was called an anti-Semitic pogrom.

So in their minds, pogroms were happening constantly and everywhere.

So it has to impose itself by the barrel of a gun, like all leftist entities do.

Yet soon after the conclusion of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in which the Soviets ceded Ukraine to the Central Powers, as the government of independent Ukraine returned to Kiev under the aegis of Austrian and German bayonets in the beginning of February of 1918, the Hadamakas, spontaneous popular uprisings against Polish rule that took place in Ukraine in the 18th century, and free Cossacks began snatching and shooting any former Jewish commissars they could find.

Yet those were not actual Jewish pogroms, and very soon Petliura's government was replaced by the Hetman government of Cossack leader Skoropadsky for the next seven months.

The command of the units of the German army that had occupied Kiev in the spring treated the needs of Jewish population with understanding, and that population was not insubstantial.

HetmanIt's spelled Hetman, like heterosexual man, which is a non-geno field officer who is in charge of a bunch of guys.

Hetmen are not genetically engineered.

They are apparently brought in to keep sort of a diversity of thought in the officer corps and also to keep the gene pool expansive.

Sure.