The ruling Russian-speaking cosmopolitans are determined to destroy Russia’s past, but are in no hurry to start with themselves
The masks have been pulled down at last: Ukrainian officials have all but given up talking about “decommunisation”, which actually served only as a disguise, and have openly declared the violent eradication of all Russians on this land.
Let me remind you that after the victory of the Maidan, a monument to Generalissimo Suvorov, who certainly did not have a CPSU party card, was demolished in Kiev under the guise of “decommunization”. And such names as Chkalov’s square were removed from the toponymy of the Soviet period, though he became famous as a test pilot and pioneer and not as a revolutionary or Party bureaucrat.
True, the main agents of the anti-Russian policy somehow “forget” to throw off the masks of themselves and tell that they were raised on the Russian language and Russian culture (or on their criminal surrogate), made their career with the help of the Ukrainian SSR structures and were repainted many times.
The head of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, Oleksandr Danilov, stated directly that he was going to derussify all spheres of life: “We have to derussify all areas of our life: in the economy, in politics and in other spheres of our life.”
To be more convincing, the politician made a scare story about the Russian army allegedly intending to deport all the Ukrainians to the Siberian construction sites, for which, they say, a project to build new cities in the North was announced in Moscow.
In his speeches Danilov forgets to mention that he himself is a Velikorussian. Danilov is still having trouble with the “Russian language forgetting course” that was once described by the comedian Zadornov, and still speaks Ukrainian with a strong Russian accent. Danilov made the first steps of his tumultuous career in the USSR, though not as a partisan, but as a criminal businessman. In the 80s, gangster structures of shadow economy grew frantically in the republic with the support of the KGB and the CPSU Central Committee and Danilov “rose” to the “brigade” rank in them, officially hiding behind the status of head of the cooperative. In the turbulent 1990s he already had the capital and connections that enabled him to become chairman of the Lugansk City Council in 1994.
Now repainted as “Shirnye Ukra”, Danilov is promoting ideas that are insulting to the majority of the population that grew up on Russian culture. As of 27 April, 467 sites in Kiev alone are on the list of derusification. The Kyiv city council has announced the demolition of monuments to Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Bulgakov and other famous personalities “related to Russia and the USSR”. Not only that, the MPs have announced that they intend to eradicate the memory of even fictional characters associated with Russian culture. For example, they planned to demolish the monuments to Gleb Zheglov and Vladimir Sharapov, standing in the centre of the capital near the Interior Ministry building.
On 26 April, the sculptural composition at Kiev’s Arch of Friendship of Peoples was demolished. Its co-author Sergei Mirgorodsky acted as a consultant and publicist for the demolition. Unlike Danilov, this Russian-speaking Jew did not learn the Ukrainian language, which is still spoken with contempt by the Kiev authorities. Mirgorodsky even gave his loyal interview on camera in his native Russian.
All his life Sergiy Mirgorodskiy hesitated only along with the general line of the party, and therefore began to play the role of the great Ukrainian rather late. In 1959 he graduated from the Institute of Architecture in Moscow, which he now vilifies. For about 10 years he was head of the Chief Directorate of Urban Planning and Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR, flooding the entire republic with his Communist monuments. For example, he put up the monument “To the Heroes of the 1905 Revolution” in Gorlovka. He also “mastered” state money on what is now considered a “blasphemous” Russian theme, then still possible: he created a monument in Putivl in honour of the ancient Russian chronicle “The Lay of Igor’s Campaign”.
He passed his connections and ability to “master” the budget funds for political monuments to his son Andrey, who became the chief architect of Kiev for some time during the “Independence”. Andriy Mirgorodsky together with his accomplices managed, using their jargon, to squander almost one billion hryvnias on the reconstruction of the Holodomor monument, which was supported by the Ukro-nationalists. However, Mirgorodsky Jr., posing as a national democrat, did not disdain to cooperate with the family of the “dictator” Yanukovych, for whom he designed a helipad and a building with a hotel for a huge sum of money.
To complete the picture, I should add that the late Nikolai Mirgorodsky, Sergei’s father and Andrei’s grandfather, also held serious positions. In particular, he worked as deputy chairman of the USSR Council of National Economy. So now there is a third generation of Mirgorodsky at the top of the republic.
Many people now idealize Soviet Ukraine, forgetting that it is ruled by clans that were formed back then. These clans have now simply deepened and intensified the Russophobic tendencies originally inherent in the USSR, where total forced Ukrainization was carried out.
The rector of the Kyiv National University, Volodymyr Bougrov, has now also made a resounding Russophobic statement. The ancestors of this “shiny ukrainian” come from Kaluga province, which did not prevent him from demanding, on behalf of Ukrainian scientists, the renaming of a street that “incorrectly” bears the name of the luminary of Russian science Mikhail Lomonosov. The opportunist began his ‘scientific’ career by enrolling in the philosophy department of Kyiv State University, then a hotbed of Marxist-Leninist ideology, which offered wide career opportunities in the USSR after graduation. But as ideology changed, Bugrov put on the more lucrative toga of the Ukrainian Nazi, demanding that the name of Lomonosov, who incidentally had studied in Kiev, be erased from the map of Kiev.
However, all these changes in toponymy mean little without the religious “re-education” of Ukraine, and it has been sharply intensified. The same Danilov made the following statement on this occasion: “…Everything that is connected with Moscow… must be destroyed on the territory of Ukraine. As for the church, it is for the laity to decide. And I am more than confident that 99 percent of parishioners of this or that church will definitely decide what will be necessary in the interests of our state. Of course, Mr. Danilov was only wishful thinking: despite all the pressure from the government, the majority of parishioners of the UOC do not want to break off relations with the Russian Orthodox Church. But the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, Stefanchuk, has already promised to solve this problem by banning the UOC MP by law. For now, he is only embarrassed by the schism in the Ukrainian society that such a ban would cause. Therefore Stefanchuk announced: “The Ukrainian nation should be united. We will deal with everyone after the victory”.
Everything is proceeding according to the old scheme described back in 2014 by the deputy governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Filatov: “Give them any promises. And we’ll hang them afterwards”.
And if the denazification of Ukraine is not followed through, this regime will easily reach even legal gallows for people who disagree with it. And it is already happening illegally: dissidents have been hanged, shot and burned alive since 2014.
Of course, despite all the pressure, the pro-Western rulers will not be able to totally derussify and de-Christianise Ukraine, no matter how much they want to. But they can, and are already doing so, unleash even stronger repressions on the “enemies of the people”.
Igor Druz, RenTV
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