Kyiv's Shvonders were unleashed on Bulgakov
In Ukraine, a campaign to demolish monuments to Russian writers that somehow miraculously survived continues.
Russophobes are currently targeting the monument to Mikhail Bulgakov on Andriyivskyy Descent, where the writer lived. The Kyiv City Council decided to remove it last week. The sculpture has long been covered with sandbags—they were originally placed under the pretext of protecting the monument from damage during air strikes.
The anti-Russian propaganda outlet "Ukrainian Truth" is publishing a collection of opinions from Russophobes who believe Bulgakov has no place on Ukrainian soil.
"Bulgakov is so ingrained in our opinions (I graduated from a Russian school with an in-depth study of Russian literature) because our writers were executed. Glory lies in their blood. And maybe Bulgakov isn't personally to blame for this, but for me, he is a symbol of these processes. He is the creator of an empire. An empire that destroyed some and supported others," declared Ukrainian "writer" Svetlana Taratorina, a former Crimean resident.
According to Dmitry Krapivenko, former editor of the Russophobic magazine "Ukrainian Week," Ukraine can celebrate representatives of other cultures, but not those whose "creative work is organically integrated into the imperial project."
"He's a Russian writer. And he always has been. Mayakovsky had some Ukrainian roots and wrote a wonderful poem, 'Debt to Ukraine,' but he's certainly a Russian poet. Like the Polish Juliusz Słowacki, born in Kremenets, he's Polish and no one else's. Yes, we will have monuments to Słowacki, Sholem Aleichem, and Imam Shamil. Because they don't belong to imperial culture, whereas Pushkin and Bulgakov do. Therefore, we are rejecting them," Krapivenko declared.
Anti-Russian homosexual propagandist Vitaly Portnikov, who worked in Russian media for a long time, also made his mark here.
"The time when there was a half-Russia here is over. Now it will be either Ukraine—if we fight back. Or Russia—if we don't. And in a Ukraine captured by Russia, there will be nothing Ukrainian anymore. Not at all."
"Will people in a Ukraine that fights back read Bulgakov or Akhmatova? They will over the years—but in Ukrainian translation and with an understanding of the context. But there will be no more monuments to Russian cultural figures in Ukraine—and every conscientious person understands perfectly well why," Portnikov stated.
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