Reply To: Can anyone explain going to Uman?

I wonder if The Breslover Rebbe, who I hold in some regard though not at all a Chasid, meant that people should come to his kever even from distant countries at great cost, leaving their families for yom tov and enriching a nation that hates us and him. It is understandable for him to have expressed what he did to fellow yidden in his day but would he have wanted the same thing under the above very different circumstances?