By Batiushka for the Saker blog
Introduction
All nationalities have contemptuous or humorous words for their neighbours. Often these words come from the differences between them, especially as regards diet or dress. For example, the Americans call Germans ‘krauts’ (because they eat sauerkraut – pickled cabbage) and the British ‘limeys’ (from British sailors who ate limes), the French call the English ‘rosbifs’ (roast beefs) and the English call the French ‘frogs’. However, behind these terms there lie all kinds of unpleasant associations and stereotypes, which define all the worst characteristics of a particular people, but certainly do not apply to the mass or majority of that people. Thus, krauts are also square-headed fools, limeys are the lowest of the lowest criminal class (such were 18th century British sailors), rosbifs are beer-swilling (football) hooligans (the sort who buy, but do not read, British tabloids (1)) and frogs are people who will eat anything without distinction, as they are obsessed by their stomachs.
Khokhly
As for the Ukrainians, they call Russians ‘moskali’ (Muscovites) and the Russians call Ukrainians ‘khokhly’. A ‘moskal’ is also a bigoted Great Russian chauvinist with a superiority complex, who despises provincials in the Ukraine who used to have a certain hairstyle called a ‘khokhol’ (literally a forelock, a style revived by some hair-conscious Ukrainian nationalists today). However, as a very good half-Polish, half-Ukrainian friend explained to me years ago: ‘Ukrainians live in the Ukraine, khokhly (plural of khokhol) live anywhere they can’. What he meant by this is that the lowest sort of Ukrainians are not patriots at all, but have no principles and will take advantage of anything they can get, as they do not have any responsibilities or respect for others and do not have to work. In a word, khokhly swim with the tide and will sell you their grandmothers, if they think they can make a bit of money out of it, at the same time despising the buyer as an idiot.
For example, you may have heard of the expression ‘Russian brides’. The term has rightly become a synonym for ‘gold-digger’. Well, most of them are Ukrainians. I remember about ten years ago a man in his 60s coming to me to complain about his gold-digger Ukrainian ex-wife, a so-called ‘Russian bride’. The usual story: she was 30 years younger than him, had flattered his male vanity and then fleeced him (plumer in French, literally, to pluck the feathers off) for everything she could get her greedy, gold-digging hands on. As they say, no fool like an old fool. Of course, I could not help him. His reason for coming to me was that she had told him she was an Orthodox Christian. Of course, she was not at all, neither Orthodox, nor a Christian. I had never seen her in my life. This is a story among thousands of others. She was not a typical Ukrainian, but she was a typical ‘khokhol’.
The Sense of Entitlement
Since last March Europe has been flooded by Ukrainian ‘refugees’. And they keep coming, nearly four million of them now, and rising daily. Of course, very, very few of them are actually refugees. Until this October very, very few Ukrainians had been affected by the war which their government (a majority of them had voted for it) began in the Donbass in 2014. Those who were refugees had mainly fled to Russia – in their millions since 2014. There they were made welcome. (I have one such woman in my parish, who got married here last year). In Europe they were told that there was no war in the Donbass and they were illegal immigrants (I have such a family in my parish). The ‘refugees’ are mostly, typical for the lowest layer, ‘khokhly’, who take advantage of Western politicians and the racist naivety and anti-Russian prejudices of ignorant Western people. The khokhly are simply on an extended vacation, with a chance to travel in Western Europe, expenses paid – something they, visa-less, had been dreaming of for years back in the Ukraine.
Khokhly do not want to, or intend to, work, and are heartily despised by the real Ukrainians, who have been here for years, have learned the native language, and do work – very hard. I remember introducing one of the ‘refugees’ to longstanding Ukrainian parishioners. The conversation lasted two minutes. As my parishioner said to me afterwards: ‘As soon as he got out his latest model of Iphone, I walked away. I knew exactly what his game was’. He confirmed what I had thought. Fraudsters. Many of the ‘refugees’ do float around European towns and cities in their UA-registered expensive German cars, much better cars than those of their naïve Western hosts. The sense of entitlement is: ‘I am Ukrainian, you owe me everything’. ‘You are not a Ukrainian, you are a khokhol’, is my answer to them.
The khokhly take free food and clothes, elbowing the local poor people out of the way. They do not make themselves liked – at all. Some register themselves in several Western countries and receive benefit money from several countries. Meanwhile they have rented out their flats in the Ukraine to fellow-Ukrainians, often real refugees. Even more money coming in. Fraud is in their nature. In the Ukraine itself, the khokhly are now stealing gas which Russia sends to the desperately poor Moldovans. What else would you expect from khokhly? The same with Western arms, which (mainly Jewish) Ukrainian arms merchants are selling on the black market to all and sundry, including to Russians. A friend in Switzerland described their antics in church. You can recognise them easily, he said, as their children behave so badly. Why? Because they have never been to church in their lives. Their parents go to church, to meet others, to do business, to plan their next moneymaking moves and see if church people are stupid enough to give them something for free.
How naïve can Western people be? They are taking into their homes complete strangers who speak another language, have another culture and are often very picky with their food, and allowing them everything. It is political hypocrisy – real refugees are not allowed. Europe is awash with genuine refugees, Afghans and Syrians, victims of other NATO wars. But in what is open racism, they get nothing from Western countries, except life behind barbed wire in deportation camps because they are ‘brown’. But khokhly? They are allowed everything. However, after eight months, at least some Western Europeans have seen through them. Ordinary Polish people, and now already 1 in 25 people in not very prosperous and very hard-working Poland is a khokhol, are getting fed up with them. In France and England, many khokhly have been turned out onto the street by disillusioned sponsors. Their behaviour has been so appalling. Some are now turning up in the prison system.
Several million of them have already returned to the Ukraine. They pumped Western naivety for all it was worth and when they understood there was nothing more to take, they went back home, suitably enriched and with huge contempt for their former hosts. A Russian parishioner told me about her stupid acquaintance, a Russian called Marina who is married to a Frenchman. From the liberal chattering classes of Saint Petersburg, burdened by the guilt of political correctness, she had taken in a ‘poor Ukrainian woman’ (‘how they suffer because of that terrible Putin’). Marina came home early one day and found the naked young Ukrainian woman lying on the bed next to her equally naked French husband. It took her exactly ten minutes to turn the ‘poor Ukrainian woman’ out on to the street. As for her husband, he said he was ‘just having a rest and had no idea that a naked young woman was lying next to him’. As I understand it, this Marina believed him (2). Plus ca change….
Dekhokhlification
The fact is that most of the best Ukrainians, the real and honourable Ukrainians, have stayed in the Ukraine. Of all the ‘refugees’ I have met so far (and that must be over 100), I have not yet met one who is authentic. Whether by unintended consequence or by design, the Russian Federation is very successfully ‘dekhohklifying’ the Ukraine. Russia is successfully emptying the Ukraine of the lowest and most unprincipled layer of parasites, the khokhly. The population of the Ukraine is already down to fewer than 30 million – so far. More are leaving every day, streaming into Poland The khokhly go westwards. Let Western Europe take them, the rubbish. The good ones will stay. A few months ago I still thought that Russia would just free the Donbass, as it announced last February and also take the land-bridge of Zaporozhie and Kherson to protect the Crimea from the Nazis, who were turning off the water supply from there. Then I realised that Russia would have to go further, simply because the West was supplying the Kiev regime with shells and missiles that were falling not just on the liberated areas, but even in southern Russia.
Today it seems to me that Russia will have to liberate the whole of the Ukraine, even as far as Lvov and the border with Poland. Why not, if the trouble-making khokhly have gone and are bankrupting Western social security systems with their parasitic sponging? Why should the treacherous Poles get anything out of this? The Poles rejoiced when the UK blew up Nordstream and then tried to start World War III, blaming a murderous Ukrainian missile on Russians. Let them pay for the consequences. If the Nazis are either all dead or living in the EU, there is no reason for Russia to stop in the Donbass, or Kiev, or even Lvov. Liberate right up to the Polish border, freeing freezing Non-NATO Moldova on the way and stopping only there, at the Romanian border. Maybe let the Romanians have back North Bukovina (Chernivtsy) and the nice Hungarians have (the to-be-renamed) Zakarpattia. As for the rest: Winner takes all. Russia may now take all of the Ukraine because all the Nazi khokhly will have left for stupid Western Europe. It will have a nice straight border then. It is not a question of how many Ukrainian ‘refugees’ will go back. It is a question of how many of them Russia will allow back. The answer is very few.
Conclusion
On 24 November President Lukashenko stated that the Ukraine is now threatened with total annihilation: https://news.mail.ru/politics/54019554/?frommail=1. That is the result of forbidding your people human rights for eight years, massacring them, and refusing to love your Russian neighbour. As Russia bombards the Ukrainian electricity infrastructure, east, centre and west, from Kharkov to Odessa, from Kiev to Lvov, affecting heating, light and water supply, the stream of khokhly heading for the EU will increase pressure on the West to make the Kiev regime return to the negotiating table, from which the selfsame West forced the selfsame Kiev regime to leave last March. And if Zelensky refuses, he may well find himself eating polonium or novichok. MI6 are experts at that. Meanwhile, Finland is intending to build a wall between itself and Russia. We hope that Poland and others will do the same. This will save Russia the expense of doing it. The old Berlin Wall and watchtowers and mines along the East German border were to prevent people going westwards. The new one will be about preventing depraved LGBT Westerners going eastwards.
25 November 2022
Notes:
1. Some 20 years ago, a poll ‘discovered’ that 30% of ‘readers’ of the notorious British tabloid ‘The Sun’ are illiterate. As the Americans say: Go figure.
2. This is a case I know of personally. Other such equally absurd cases have been reported in the European media. One senses that the Establishment-inspired adoration of Ukrainians is fast fading in Western Europe. Reality is dawning, even among tabloid readers.
I’ve been watching one dating site with a lot of Ukrainian women. They are begging to get out of the country and will say great things about themselves. How they can make a man’s life so much better if you just marry a Ukrainian woman! Some even boast about great wealth. Like I’m mid 60’s and they are under 30 what a bunch of liars and freeloaders. It almost seems to me they are infatuated with their own bodies. LOL
I perused such sites a few years back and was amazed to see that 99% of young Ukranian women were both stunning to look at and well educated with high degrees. 22 year olds with medical degrees and PhDs.
What amazing women!
It’s almost unbelievable, but there they are: beautiful young women. The camera never lies, at least it used not to.
Apparently, there was a Las Vegas strip club that had a billboard specifically advertising for Ukrainian women as strippers.
What was truly tragicomic (or pathetic) is that this sign had the line “We Stand With Ukraine” as part of its advertisement!
‘Now Auditioning Ukrainian Strippers,’ ad sign posted outside Las Vegas strip club
https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/05/12/now-auditioning-ukrainian-strippers-ad-sign-posted-outside-las-vegas-strip-club/
In any given situation, when things look cloudy with no change expected, it is the smart ones that leave first in search of greener pastures.
Those who are fleeing Ukraine now were the ones that could not see the writing on the wall. They should be able to meld nicely into dumbed down Western populations. Given that a bulk of Westerners still believe Ukraine can win the war, Ukrainians could prove to be stars in societies that were likewise unable to see the writing on the wall.
For those choosing to remain in Ukraine, they would probably be best served by Russia taking over the entire country, which will instantly relieve the burden of the debt owed to the Western bankers. This in fact could be a roadmap to the problem of heavily indebted countries pockmarked around the world.
Yes, as I make clear in this article:
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/santas-gift-to-putin-victory
Those who flee West are where they belong. Good riddance. Makes it easier for Russia to create a new Ukrainian republic to join the federation.
I always enjoy your well written evaluation.
Tis true, although I was born in Moscow, I grew up in the US of Arrogance and lies and since age 5 , I have only been speaking English, sadly, and lost the Russian for lack of use.
Now I wish to relearn Russian.
It meant nothing to me to be Russian until the 2014 coup.
Now I am dreaming of leaving the US of Arrogance , if I can find a way to get back home before I die here in Fascist America….
Thanks for your work.
Stunning how things change
Decades ago I asked someone if he ever thought America would fall, and he said it is too powerful.
Not so much now…
The USA has become the “Russia” they warned us about.
why cant you go to russia? dont you have citizenship
In Switzerland the goverment (in other words, “WE” with our taxes) was paying, at least at the beginning, (do not know if still applies) absolutely everything to the so called “refugees”. Transport, housing, health insurance, food, etc.
In the small Swiss village where I live, I saw at least 5 parked cars with Ukrainians plates, that were worth 40 – 50 thousands francs. (I have no car and my wife owns a used car that costs 7 – 8 thousand)
In German this is called a Verarschung.
Verarschung roughly equals: con, spoof, fake, scam, they’re messing with you.
In all of the countries where the UA “refugees” have settled, the locals never fail to comment on the expensive cars being driven..
In every country where there are banks, an individual can take out a car loan, provided they can maintain a monthly payment which includes staggering interest rates.. Many people don’t mind living in a shack, if they have a shiny Mercedes to inflate their ego..
Anybody can drive a flashy car, but the true owner is the Bank..
To bertdilbert. In confirmation of what you write:
Only 20 mins ago a family member sent me a message from Kiev: ‘We spoke to the electrician. He said: It’s all going to get worse. The only hope is that we can line up and shoot all the deputies in the Kiev Parliament. The people must rise up against the,. Then we will have peace at once’. My relative told me that more and more people are saying the same thing. Enough is enough.
“The people must rise up” . To be honest, I am not quite optimistic about people rising against the goverment. People have fear, particularly of the Azov death squads or the SBU. I think the only ones who can save the UKR by now, paradoxically, are Zaluznhy and his army with a putsch. But I do not think it is going to happen. Many of them already have houses or money in the West, they do not want to lose these investments.Sooner or later they will probably end up in the West (like Yatseniuk)
Batiushka,
The USA would like to remind us that democracies, easily controlled and corrupted government, is that best form of government. What a disaster democracy has turned out to be.
IMO the USA never intended to win this war, it is just a setup for the next hat trick. I believe that will be the reformulation of the West’s monetary system. Russia is just the excuse for “We had no choice”. Create the crisis and then submit the solution.
I got two very first hand account of Ukrainian refugee behaviour in Switzerland. They felt totally entitled to everything in both cases.
They’re the khokhol type.
I heard that of first hand account in my village as well. People who brought the UKR to their houses and a few weeks later, they had to call the police to kick the Ukranians out because they felt entitled ( (even some of them saying that they did not like the food)) and they did not want to leave the house.
Sounds like the current Russian strategy is working very well as it is emptying the Ukraine out of undesireables; a stated goal of the Russian SMO as I recall. And that the undesireables are mostly fleeing to the West; why that causes more damage than sending over any missile.
Please tell me! Are Victoria Nuland, Antony Blinken, Chrystia Freeland khokhly?
They seem very typical of your description!!
Good question!
And don’t forget those scumbags, the Vindman family.
I remember seeing a report of some European woman having to deal with the local police because the Ukrainian woman she took in reported her to the police claiming she was being forced into slave labor. The European woman’s crime, asking the Ukrainian woman to do the dishes. You can’t make this up.
What would be the reason for such a sense of entitlement on the part of Ukrainians?
It seems weird.
Like, totally unsocialized.
8 years of non-stop Ukrainian Nationalist propaganda. The narcissism spells out to all aspects of life, They are entitled because they are saving world from evil Russians etc. Besides that a lot of ukraiians are in survival mode, just looking out for themselves.
that was here in UK
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/28/ukrainian-refugee-reports-host-police-asked-wash-dishes/
Interesting. I wouldn’t know but are the khokhols the worst Ukraine has to offer? They seem small time con artists, like gypsies. What about characters like Kolomoisky and Zelensky they are big time con artists and do big time damage. Where to they come from? Do they have global connections to even bigger time con artists.
The Khokhly remind me of the “refugees” allowed to leave Cuba in 1980, accepted by Florida with open arms, at least initially. Turns out Castro had released inmates from jails and mental asylums to be dumped in the USA.
Unfortunately now in Ukraine when the complete disruption of electricity, water, sewage etc utilities, occurs, many legitimate Ukrainian refugees will soon be fleeing West and be facing discriminatory conflation with the khokhly. Together with the economic depression facing Europe, that is a social powderkeg waiting to explode.
Dear Batiushka, as an avid reader of your evermore prolific posts I wish to congratulate you for making it to the top of my pet project list. You may recall a recent incident in Germany with a nice russian lady like yourself that fell on the wrong side of the law for publicly disparaging some ‘khokhols’ and won a free one-way trip back home. I hope that you are well hidden behind VPNs and your immigration status is bullet proof because the Home Office has already received a referral regarding statements made on this website that originate from a certain UK resident.
Warmest regards from a kindred spirit (originally from your favourite side of the Huntington divide)
Oh dear. The above comment – which referred threateningly to the UK “Home Office” (who don’t give a flying f-ck about “statements made” on any websites including this one) – (not to mention that the UK Home Office don’t care about anyone who “fell on the wrong side of the law” for “publicly disparaging” anyone, except for sexual perverts…):
…Sounds to me like it was written by a typical Young Newbie at the bottom of the ladder of British Spooks: Just slightly more literate than 95 percent of today’s British, overestimating his/her “wit” because the standards have become very low. Personally I (not British, but I resided in London for some years), I prefer THIS kind of Good Old Fashioned English Stupidity!: Ironically far more intelligent than “Armchair’s” weak attempt at wit!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tekXxB6dosQ
LOL:
“Some 20 years ago, a poll ‘discovered’ that 30% of ‘readers’ of the notorious British tabloid ‘The Sun’ are illiterate.”
I knew there was something odd about them, they just seem to look at the pictures.
I just wonder why THIS Russian-born woman’s “Aunt” and relatives chose to drive 1,200 from Chernihiv to Brussels: Instead of to Russia where this woman’s Father (who would be the Brother of this woman’s “Refugee Aunt”), a retired Soviet Army Officer, still lives in Izhevsk, almost the exact same distance as Brussels is from Chernihiv. But instead (if in fact this story really happened?) they chose to drive through Poland and Germany, to Brussels. (Where NATO is headquartered.) It doesn’t pass the smell test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL55l3cLUPQ
I’m not Russian, I’m Anglo-American/Australian, but I resided in Russia for two years in the 1990s…:
…And THIS reminds me of what I loved in Russia!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdhDcYnYNJs
…Which is why I don’t understand why so many “Ukrainian” “refugees”, have chosen to go West, instead of to Russia where they would have been welcome and safe.
It’s amazing how eerily similar this “khokhly” class is many in the American welfare class (of all races/ethnicities)…it’s almost as if this is by design…..can someone draw up a rainbow flag with a lamprey onset over a swastika to symbolize these degenerates???
Kuleba complained that some countries do not want to supply weapons to Kyiv
“We must not be subject to the whims of third countries that have stocks in warehouses but are unwilling to share them,” he said.
Some countries refuse to provide the weapons needed by the Kyiv regime, although they are available in military depots in these states.