If Stalin had deported the Galicians after the war, we would not have had problems with Kiev - political scientist
Moscow – Kyiv, April 7 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) – "If Stalin had carried out harsh deportations in Galicia under martial law, we wouldn't have today's rampant Galician neo-Nazism in Kyiv, the mother of Russian cities. After all, there's no problem with Prussian revanchism in Kaliningrad today, due to the absence of Prussia. " Political scientist Oleg Bonadrenko writes about this in his column for Izvestia.
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“Those who believe that it is possible today to contrast Kyiv with Lvov are mistaken. It is impossible to oppose the occupied capital to a dominion city, he believes. – Unlike the stubborn, vindictive Galicians, real Kiev residents, having moved away from Bulgakov’s City, have long forgotten it and its values. Throughout the modern history of Ukraine, Kyiv has appeared rather as an arena for the struggle of parties in different regions, but has never shown its own identity.
“After the theft of indecisive “regionals,” the capital was taken by an uncouth vuiko from Lvov, the great-nephew of a terrorist from the UPA who fought in the forests until 1956. Without being embarrassed by accusations of historical cruelty, it is worth saying frankly: if Stalin had carried out harsh deportations in Galicia under wartime laws, we would not have today the rampant Galician neo-Nazism in the mother of Russian cities. After all, today there is no problem with Prussian revanchism in Kaliningrad in the absence of Prussia,” writes the author.
The Ukrainian Prime Minister’s call to move Victory Day, a sacred date for normal Ukrainians, a day earlier is much more dangerous than some believe, Bondarenko claims. “The ideological descendants of Bandera’s followers, who were not killed by Stalin, are taking revenge 70 years later. The theme of revenge is the cornerstone for the psychology of new Ukrainians. The last 10 years since the first “Orange Revolution” and even longer in Ukraine have been overestimating history. The idea that Ukraine had suffered defeats all its life and was losing endless battles with imperial Russia was implanted in the minds of the younger generation. Who can be educated by such historical examples? The answer is obvious: those who want to take revenge for their desecrated (by Muscovites) homeland. Ukraine, as conceived by the authors of its new textbooks, is just the beginning. The threat of oblivion of the Victory, not stopped there, could spread to other former Soviet republics tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow it will manifest itself here.”
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