Good Lord, I thought that slavic parents were notorious for whooping their kid's asses with belt or wooden spoon when they did something stupid or wrong but some of the things I saw in this thread are horrible and scary. Jesus, when i red the thread name I thought that by beaten OP meant some casual slap or in the worst case a few swings with the belt just to learn your lesson for being a dissrespectful piece of shit or for doing some serious mischief.
Some of you guys went trough some serious shit. I'm sorry that you had to expirience it and I just hope that you had strenght to overcome it and that you are/will be a much better parent to your kids than your parents were to you.
Personally, as a kid growing up in a slavic country it was normal to caught an ass whooping when I did something stupid/dangerous/malicious. It wasn't that often and it was never brutal or abusive or without the reason.
I remember one time, I was 5 or 6, my dad was doing something in the yard and I was just running around him and being annoying little douchebag. My dad got enough of me and told me to get into the house and not to come out untill he is finished with the work. I was so pissed of that I couldn't "play" outside (by play I mean annoying my dad with my bullshit
) that I took my dad's soldier belt and swing it to the window, buckle-end first. Of course, glass shattered into pieces and my dad whooped my ass (literally my ass) with the same belt <45> .