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ꠁꠜꠣꠘ Bohun (?—1664) was Ukrainian Cossack leader. He was one of the leaders of Ukrainian national liberation war (also known as Khmelnytskyi uprising). Bohun was one the opponents of Pereiaslav treaty and didn't signed it.

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Colonel Ivan Bohun, who was considered the number one Cossack strategist after Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, categorically did not accept the idea of ​​the Pereyaslav Council. As the crown courier Andrzej Potocki wrote to the Polish king, Ivan Bohun was one of those Cossacks for whom "the highest state right is not to be under your, royal, mercy, nor under the tsar".
 

  — Olena Apanovych[1]
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Bohun was the hero whose restless spirit lives on and still burns with burning fire in the souls of the youth. He was the brightest representative of the type of Ukrainians of that time who met danger with laughter, did not untie knots, but cut them, did not beg, but acquired what they considered necessary to acquire. Undoubtedly, that type [of people] could have thousands of flaws that the average person does not have, perhaps he lacked many virtues, but he - and those like him - gave us that sharp emotion that we feel when reading the above-mentioned author, how the entire structure of the world, with which they fought, lay at their feet in blood and swamp...
 Відчит, виголошений в Українській Студентській Громаді в Варшаві, 15 червня 1937 р. (фрагмент)

  — Olena Teliha «Сила через Радість»
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  1. «Україно-Російський договір 1654 року. Міфи і реальність» Українська Бібліотека Script error: No such module "Wq/syl/Webarchive".