Let Us Remember A Forgotten Hero (663 hits)
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Submitted by Malone (View user info) at 2007-11-21 00:15:55 EST
November 22, 2007. On this day in America, we will all be enjoying turkey and football as we celebrate Thanksgiving, a traditional holiday which celebrates all that we have, and the mutual deep trusting relationship the Pilgrims had with the Indians. But in the small town of Sokol, Russia, the people there celebrate something else.
"It has been great time coming since Iron Curtin lift," says Irina Azimova "now we again celebrate in the streets, the outcome of that brutal night!"
Unable to celebrate the day during the later years of Communist rule, that night she's referring to is the night Dmitry Bogrov saved the town from an uncertain fate, and an outcome to a violent battle the locals believe could have been terrible.
"Oh yes terrible, it would have been terrible!" says Alyona Dzutseva, a local gypsy. "If it were not for that man, my ancestors would surely have been overrun and likely killed. The only reason the battle didn't go on for longer is because of Dmitry Bogrov."
On November 22, 1887, the night seemed like any other in the small town of Sokol. The people and farm animals alike were quiet, a light snow was coming down and things seemed peaceful. What the townspeople didn't know, and what is still not clear today is what happened next. It seems all the babies in the town were not in their beds or with their mothers, but had gathered, somehow at the vodka mill. They became intoxicated. They became enraged! They moved quickly.
Maggie Yeloyeva was the first victim in the chaos that took place, in her written account at the time she remembers "sitting in my kitchen watching corn boil in the pot, that's when they came for me. They came with such force, that I thought the Tsar himself had come with several of his armies to take my home. But it was only, only babies. I recognized one or two I think. It all happened so fast."
The drunken raging babies went from house to house, harming the townspeople, and destroying over 25% of the property, they even killed many animals.
"They took my goat from me!" wrote Fatima Yeloyeva, Maggie's twin sister.
The townspeople rallied against the babies at the town square en masse, but they could not hold back and their line was broken. That's when Dmitry Bogrov came on the scene and changed not only the outcome of that night, but the course of history in the village.
Dmitry Bogrov by all accounts was a huge man, and he lost all his clothes in the fight. He is said to have taken on every baby himself until each and every last one of them was killed or could no longer fight. He is a hero in this land and becoming more of a legend each year.
So while we're enjoying our parades and pumpkin pie, the folks in Sokol will be celebrating a much different holiday, best translated as Night of the Potato Alcohol Babies.
Just outside the town now stands a statue commemorating that night, and the events that would scar one small town forever. It shows Dmitry Bogrov at the peak of the battle.
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Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2007-11-21 15:47:42 EST (#)
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I giggled.
Submitted by triangle_man (user info) at 2007-11-21 12:46:53 EST (#)
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paedophobia? Da!
Submitted by Lib (user info) at 2007-11-21 12:33:55 EST (#)
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Thank you : )
Submitted by FATMANTPK (user info) at 2007-11-21 12:21:49 EST (#)
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HAR HAR PEENER
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2007-11-21 11:16:21 EST (#)
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Awesome!
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-11-21 10:40:11 EST (#)
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Info. on statue: http://go.to/Vigeland/
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-11-21 10:18:38 EST (#)
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That IS an odd statue, its very Uber-esque
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2007-11-21 09:28:58 EST (#)
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Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-11-21 09:11:33 EST (#)
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Hahahahahaha...okay, what is the REAL origin behind that statue?
well spun sir, I applaud you.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-11-21 09:14:35 EST (#)
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500,000 joules of kick-ass.
What's the story on that statue, and where did you learn about it from? I must know!
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-11-21 09:11:33 EST (#)
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Hahahahahaha...okay, what is the REAL origin behind that statue?
Submitted by phuzzygish (user info) at 2007-11-21 08:02:56 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2007-11-21 04:49:56 EST (#)
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Had me laughing. Interesting name you used there too.
Submitted by orph (user info) at 2007-11-21 03:55:04 EST (#)
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and perhaps some Oslo
Submitted by orph (user info) at 2007-11-21 03:54:46 EST (#)
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needs more Copenhagen
Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2007-11-21 02:35:12 EST (#)
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Did anyone just feel the internet and reality collide for a moment there?
+1 Kicker of all babies
Submitted by kuroneko_sama (user info) at 2007-11-21 01:41:24 EST (#)
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ive seen that statue in a pic before... i figured it needed a caption...
...this'll do
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2007-11-21 00:27:32 EST (#)
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needs more insertion(s)