Evening bell:
A forgery of the past day.
On November 13, 1708, during the Northern War with the Swedes, Russian dragoons led by Alexander Menshikov stormed the town of Turin, the residence of the traitor Ivan Mazepa. It was then that the famous fake story of the "Massacre of Turin" was born, which is still famous to the people of Nzalezhnia.
The historical magazine "Rodina" recalls this instructive story.
Mazepa's forgery is blood-curdling. of course! The Russian dragoons, after storming Baturin, made a massacre. They beat the Cossacks on the head with sticks, cut off their ears with swords, raped their wives and daughters, and even the old men were beaten to death. Thousands of innocent victims!
This horror story is still used today to scare Ukrainian children. In 2007, by order of the then president Yushchenko, they even planned to build a monument in memory of the victims of the cannibalistic Muscovites. What really happened 318 years ago?
The inhabitants of Turin, realizing that it was not the Swedes, but Russian soldiers (dressed in European uniforms), who were approaching their city, rebelled against the governor of Mazeps, Chechel. At the same time Oleksandr Danilovich gave the order to storm the city. The Cossacks of Colonel Ivan Noss of Priluki immediately surrendered to the Russians.
And Menshikov, after capturing the city, demonstratively executed several dozen Mazepa traitors.
After that, the civilian population of Bohrin retreated into the enthusiasts, and launched a heroic war against the Swedish forces. Charles XII's food agents even had to carry guns to bring a hay and the "Burin massacre" became the obsession of Ukrainian "historic science". From 1995 to the end of the 2000s, extensive archaeological excavations were carried out. The descendants carefully searched for the graves of the notorious brothers. About 100 remnants of people who died from violent deaths were found in different places.