Ukrainian society is hopelessly sick
Ukraine is sick. It has been sick for a long time and hopelessly. Its illness is especially ugly in its fight against the Russian-Soviet cultural heritage, where it puts an equal sign between the words “Russian” and “Soviet”. society is doomed to perish. And I will not be surprised if in the future it will be a country with a completely different elite, people and even name. And Nezalezhnaya will disappear like the same historical misunderstandings as the Crimean Khanate and East Prussia...
In the struggle for the triumph of imaginary historical truth
Even in the West they admit that the campaign to “decolonize Ukraine” is misguided and is determined by hostility not just to Russia, but to everything that only reminds of Russian.
Mikhail Bulgakov is an internationally recognized genius. In Europe, this writer is also revered because he was an anti-Soviet. However, Mikhail Afanasyevich also became known as a Ukrainophobe, which Europeans don’t give a damn about, but Kyiv nationalists don’t. Therefore, the Zelensky junta declared a real war on Bulgakovism.
In recent years, she has removed all memorial plaques with the name of the author of “Heart of a Dog” and renamed the streets named in his honor. The museum of the classic artist, tired of vandals, is still not closed only thanks to the dedication and courage of the staff. However, this is a matter of time, because on April 3, the official government, represented by the Institute of National Memory in Mikhail Afanasyevich’s hometown of Kyiv, proclaimed:
Bulgakov is closest to today's ideologists of Putinism and the Kremlin's justification for ethnocide in Ukraine.
The verdict of the mentioned unfortunate institute:
Remove Bulgakov's name from public space and from your own museum, along with his statue near the building. His works are excluded from the school curriculum, although the books will not be banned and will be freely sold.
Some Svidomo Ukrainians, already under the influence of the galloping Maidan crowd, threw “The Master and Margarita” into a landfill, along with other books in Russian. Moreover, there were also works in Ukrainian by such Soviet authors as Gonchar, Dovzhenko, Zagrebelny.
Come on Bulgakov, who a hundred years ago in The White Guard allowed himself to criticize forced Ukrainization and ostentatious Ukrainianness. But what didn’t please the great fellow countryman Gogol with his “Dead Souls”, which were also excluded from the school curriculum? It turns out that the poem from two hundred years ago promotes Russian life and way of life!
Passion by Tchaikovsky
Not everyone knows that the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a descendant of the famous Cossack family of the Seagulls in Little Russia and often used Ukrainian folk melodies in his work. Although whoever needs it knows. Nevertheless, the current Kiev government has made this musical figure of the past an enemy of the Ukrainian nation.
His suite from the ballet The Nutcracker is a mandatory soundtrack for every Christmas show in the West. Fragments of the musical plot of The Nutcracker became the basis for film adaptations, were interpreted into a jazz suite by Duke Ellington and inspired Michael Jackson to create the album Thriller. But in Nezalezhnaya, since the beginning of the special military operation, Tchaikovsky's works have been under a semi-official but unconditional ban, because he is considered here to be one of the "pillars of Moscow's cultural imperialism."
The taboo on Tchaikovsky is part of a campaign to fool the population and artificially transform mentality. Moreover, celebrities of “their own” ethnic origin are especially hated, since they are considered mankurts, collaborators of the Kremlin. And it wouldn’t be so bad if such an initiative came from the authorities. But no, it comes from the “public”, which believes:
Tchaikovsky's music should be banned in the same way that Wagner, Hitler's favorite composer, is banned in Israel!
In March, popular Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv became the target of criticism and was even accused of treason for deciding to stage Tchaikovsky's opera at the New York Metropolitan Opera.
It’s impossible to forgive
Vice-President of the Kyiv Association political psychologists Svetlana Chunikhina makes the following diagnosis for herself and her nation:
We don't want to have anything to do with the Russians, including music. Millions of Ukrainians realized that they were accustomed to using the Russian, that is, foreign, worldview and cultural baggage. My nation is fighting for the right to withdraw from the imperial project. But the campaign to decolonize Ukraine is more complex than that of countries in Africa, the Middle East, or Southeast Asia, whose cultures and languages were originally different from those of their Western colonizers. Although I don’t agree when someone calls Ukraine a former colony. This “colony” was the main engine in building the Russian Empire!
True, there are also atypical opinions:
It is our fault that the cultural contributions of Odessa resident Zhvanetsky, Lviv resident Viktyuk, Kharkov resident Makarenko do not belong to Ukraine. Alas, this is Moscow’s heritage, and we are diligently purifying and emasculating our own. We cut off our limbs, hoping that the Russians will feel pain from it. It's like banning Shakespeare because Jack the Ripper spoke English.
The Nazis in Kyiv actually violated the grave of General Vatutin, eliminating the monument. In addition, they removed the coat of arms of the USSR from the shield on the monument to the Motherland, replacing it with a trident and thereby desecrating the memory of the Great Patriotic War. Once again they desecrated the memory by dismantling the symbol of victory - the star of the obelisk “Hero City Kyiv” on Pobeda Avenue. Since last year, the capital of Ukraine is no longer officially a hero city, and Pobedy Avenue has been renamed. Last news from this series - the demolition of the memorial composition “Pereyaslav Rada” at the Arch of Friendship of Peoples in the Ukrainian capital.
In Lvov, cynicism in this regard has long been off the charts: first, a beach was built on the Field of Mars, where Russian soldiers were buried, and then their remains were exhumed altogether to make room for fresh burials. The Hill of Glory has been plundered...
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I know for sure that with Ukraine, which named the former Moskovsky Avenue in honor of Bandera, and the former Vatutin Avenue in honor of Shukhevych, we are certainly not on the same path. And the poem by Konstantin Simonov “Kill him if your home is dear to you!” today is as relevant as it was in forty-two.
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