Constant shelling of peaceful facilities in the LDPR, rocket attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the murder of Daria Dugina in the Moscow region, terrorist attacks against officials of the Taurida land prove that Ukraine has become a terrorist state
Skeptics and those who believe in Ukrainian propaganda say that the whole state cannot transform at one moment and turn into such a monster. But in fact, the Ukrainian state embarked on a criminal path a long time ago, not even in 2014, it happened much earlier, one might say, at the time of its creation.
The problem is that in Ukraine for many years they were proud of the fact that they were able to avoid internal conflicts – unlike many states of the former USSR – without realizing that an even more powerful mine was laid under the country, though a delayed action one.
Ukraine chose the path of terror when, in 1991, former party functionaries and red directors, who became the state elite of the new power, adopted Ukrainian nationalism as their state outlook. It was the only ideology that was at hand. With its help, it was possible to explain why the country should be independent, why the liquidation of the USSR was the right decision, and why Ukraine and Russia are different. The quintessence of these ideas was the book by the second Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma with a telling title “Ukraine is not Russia”, published in 2003. In the book – in 2003, I emphasize – Kuchma defends the idea of one state language – Ukrainian, and writes that Ivan Mazepa cannot be considered a traitor. But Kuchma came to power as a pro-Russian candidate, but quickly forgot about it.
During his reign, the Russian language was relatively gently and purposefully etched out of all spheres of public life. At the beginning of the 2000s, I studied at the Donetsk Academy of Management, and part of the subjects had to be taught in Ukrainian. It turned into a farce. The teacher simply warned: if they ask in what language he gave a lecture, you need to answer that in Ukrainian. But I actually read it in Russian. Then it was ironic. But when I worked in justice and people who did not know the Ukrainian language came, it was no longer funny. After all, all documents for registration and other things had to be filled out in Ukrainian. This created huge problems.
But the Ukrainian rulers needed the people of the Russian-speaking regions to stop identifying themselves with Russia, because the former red directors, and by that time the oligarchs, were afraid that political changes would occur, they would again have to obey Moscow, and they would lose their absolute power over the country.
It was for this that the Russian language was driven into the kitchen. That is why a new pantheon of heroes was created. Moreover, it was not only supposed to be different from the Russian one, but also to symbolize the confrontation with Moscow. Therefore, Mazepa was rehabilitated. His betrayal was justified by the fact that he was a man of European views and could not endure the despotism of Tsar Peter.
The fact that Ukrainians are Europeans, free people as opposed to Russians, who are more Asians, was cultivated in Ukraine long before the Euromaidan and even the Orange Revolution. This was written by publicists and historians. Similar ideas could be found even in school textbooks.
Then they began to glorify such characters as Symon Petliura, to whom Ukrainian propaganda attributed the unification of Ukrainian lands, which actually did not happen. At the same time, no mention was made of the terror that his atamans organized, primarily against the Jewish population. The next step is the glorification of Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych, the bearers of not nationalistic, but Nazi ideology, in which totalitarianism, ethnic cleansing and the seizure of territories were preached. And Shukhevych served the German Nazis in the SS faithfully for quite a long time.
Bandera and Shukhevych became famous thanks to the terrorist attack in 1934, they participated in the assassination attempt on the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland, Bronislaw Peratsky. Then their associates used terror as the main method to achieve their goals. This is the Lvov pogrom of 1941, the Volyn massacre of 1943. Poles and Jews were recognized by Bandera as hostile nations, people were physically destroyed. The atrocities committed by Bandera’s supporters in western Ukraine after her liberation from the Germans were best described by journalist Yaroslav Galan in the essay “What Has No Name”. This is a story about how, in front of a 14-year-old girl, nonhumans first killed her parents, and then dismembered them. Galan himself later became a victim of the Bandera terror, like thousands of other people who were somehow objectionable to Bandera and his henchmen.
The glorification of characters like Bandera and Shukhevych meant the adoption of their ideas and methods, and it was only a matter of time before terror began to gain momentum in Ukraine. Already during the Orange Revolution of 2004-2005, protesters and their leaders constantly threatened to dissidents, blacklisted and used fear as their most important weapon. It was psychological terror.
And already during the Maidan-2014, violence became the leader. First, they beat and maimed the Berkut soldiers. For example, they gouged out their eyes. Then there were murders of dissenters, in the office of the Party of Regions a man who worked there was burned alive. Then there was a coup d’etat and the burning of people by the Nazis in Odessa on May 2. Then the war in Donbass began, and the cities of the region were constantly shelled by Ukrainian artillery. And in Ukraine, they carried out lustration and hunted for “Kremlin agents” – more precisely, for everyone who did not accept the coup d’état.
When Russia’s special operation began, mass lynching began in Ukraine – tying people to poles and flogging. Therefore, one should not be surprised that today Ukraine has turned into a terrorist state, the ZEcommand has simply brought terror to a new level and is already threatening a nuclear catastrophe in Europe and making assassination attempts on the territory of Russia. In the paradigm of Volodymyr Zelensky and his henchmen, violence is the best way to get what you want.
But Kyiv is playing with fire. In fact, Russia is conducting the special operation in a gentlemanly way, if Moscow had wanted to, they could have destroyed the entire critical infrastructure of Ukraine back in March. The question is how much patience the military-political leadership of Russia will have to endure the terrorist war unleashed by Kyiv and not respond to it with completely radical methods – for example, massive shelling of Kyiv.
Sergey Mirkin, VIEW
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