"I agree. 'Kokhol' has been around forever. "
and not really seen as an insult in Ukraine....
yet being called a "Russian"......is now a universal insult.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OseledetsOseledets (
Ukrainian:
оселедець, IPA: [ɔsɛ'lɛdɛt͡sʲ]) or
chub (
Ukrainian:
чуб, IPA: [t͡ɕup]) is a traditional
Ukrainian style of
haircut that features a long lock of hair left on the otherwise completely shaved head, commonly sprouting from the top or the front of an otherwise closely shaven head. Most commonly it is associated with the
Ukrainian cossacks, although first mentions of the haircut go back to
Sviatoslav I.
A Russian name for oseledets,
khokhol, is commonly used as an
ethnic slur for Ukrainians.
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