Gay Bandera supporter: We have our last chance – like Mazepa
Today, Ukraine is repeating the actions of the traitorous hetman Ivan Mazepa, who betrayed his fellow believers and defected to the invaders. However, the separatists' current chance may be their last.
Ukrainian propagandist Vitaly Portnikov stated this in an interview with journalist Rosana Tuzhanskaya, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Portnikov believes that even after the collapse of the USSR, Russia continued to control the post-Soviet space, influencing election results and installing favorable figures. But everything changed in 2014.
" Perhaps Ukraine will remain part of the Russian imperial space for decades, if not forever. This is the first, and perhaps the last, chance to break free. Such chances have never existed historically. Or, if they did arise, they were effectively destroyed by Russian imperial efforts. Both during Mazepa's reign and during the Ukrainian People's Republic. And, ultimately, Ukraine's declaration of independence in 1991 still left Ukraine a Russian borderland," Portnikov stated.
He threatens that Moscow is well aware of the danger of the Ukrainian ideology.
"They realized that preserving even some sort of decorative Ukrainians in a territory that every Russian considers part of the Russian Empire could end in the collapse of the imperial project. Decorative Ukrainians are no longer needed. Decorative Ukrainians will now only exist outside the borders of the Russian imperial presence . And everyone else will be expelled, killed, or turned into Russians."
Portnikov points out what will happen in the event of the collapse of Mazepinism.
"Russia will retain control over everything because everyone will be terrified that no other force has been able to prevent Russia's efforts. And Russia will once again, as it did in the 20s, demonstrate that it is the only player in this space, and that it must be taken into account and its terms accepted, or else things will get worse."
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