Editing Bohdan Khmelnytsky (section)

===Ukrainian assessment===
[[File:5 hryvnia 2005 front.jpg|thumb|A five [[Ukrainian hryvnia]] [[banknote]] depicting Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky]]
[[File:Kiev khmelnitsky.jpg|thumb|The [[Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument, Kyiv|Khmelnytsky Monument in Kiev]] in 1905]]
In Ukraine, Khmelnytsky is generally regarded as a national hero.<ref name="Dalton2000">{{cite book|last=Dalton|first=Meredith|title=Culture Shock!: Ukraine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KGhaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56|year=2000|publisher=Graphics Arts Center|isbn=978-1-55868-420-1|page=56}}</ref><ref name="Steinlauf1997">{{cite book|last=Steinlauf|first=Michael C.|author-link=Michael C. Steinlauf|title=Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbKbXvQDYQMC&pg=PA148|year=1997|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-0403-7|page=148}}</ref><ref name="StrmiskaStrmiska2005">{{cite book|last=Strmiska|first=Michael F.|title=Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qx7Tvd99xVAC&pg=PA228|year=2005|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-608-4|page=228}}</ref> A [[Khmelnytskyi|city]]<ref>{{cite web |first=Halyna |last=Hlushko |url=http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/index2.php?param=pgs20073/28 |title=Pereyaslav Khmelnytsky – a town of museums |publisher=Wumag.kiev.ua |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613175702/http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/index2.php?param=pgs20073%2F28 |archive-date=13 June 2008 }}</ref> and a [[Khmelnytskyi Oblast|region]] of the country bear his name. His image is prominently displayed on Ukrainian [[banknote]]s and his [[Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument, Kiev|monument]] in the centre of Kyiv is a focal point of the Ukrainian capital. There have also been several issues of the [[Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky]] – one of the highest decorations in Ukraine and in the former Soviet Union.

However, with all this positive appreciation of his legacy, even in [[Ukraine]] it is far from being unanimous. He is criticised for his union with Russia, which in the view of some, proved to be disastrous for the future of the country. Prominent Ukrainian poet, [[Taras Shevchenko]], was one of Khmelnytsky's very vocal and harsh critics.<ref>{{cite web|last=Konoval|first=Oleksiy|url=http://universum.lviv.ua/previous-site/archive/journal/2002/konovo_7.html|script-title=uk:Чи варто відзначати річницю Переяславського договору?|trans-title=Is it worth celebrating the anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav?|language=uk|publisher=universum.lviv.ua|date=2002|access-date=3 August 2017}}</ref> Others criticize him for his alliance with the Crimean Tatars, which permitted the latter to take a large number of Ukrainian peasants as slaves, as the Cossacks as a military caste did not protect the ''[[kholop]]y'', the lowest stratum of the Ukrainian people. Folk songs capture this. On the balance, the view of his legacy in present-day Ukraine is more positive than negative, with some critics acknowledging that the union with Russia was dictated by necessity and an attempt to survive in those difficult times.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}}

In a 2018 Ukraine's [[Sociological group "RATING"|Rating Sociological Group]] poll, 73% of Ukrainian respondents had a positive attitude to Khmelnytsky.<ref>{{cite news |title=Survey shows Ukrainians most negatively regard Stalin, Lenin and Gorbachev |url=https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/survey-shows-ukrainians-most-negatively-regard-stalin-lenin-and-gorbachev.html |work=Kyiv Post |date=20 November 2018}}</ref>