Klitschko invited the people of Kiev to exchange for a fictitious entity
In Kyiv, Marshal Zhukov Street will be named after an entity that never existed.
Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports this , noting that the Kyiv City Council's standing committee on culture, tourism, and information policy has approved a resolution to rename Marshal Zhukov Street in the capital's Desnyansky district to Kubanskaya Ukraina Street.
The corresponding resolution, taking into account the amendments of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, was submitted to the commission by the head of the Kyiv City Council and the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitaliy Klitschko.
Georgy Zhukov at a meeting with residents of Kyiv after the liberation of the Ukrainian capital in November 1943.
“On the one hand, the “decommunization” of avenues, streets, parks and bridges, starting from the Ukrainian capital and ending with lost villages, has ceased to excite and surprise anyone. The peak of cynicism and oblivion was passed in June last year, after in Kyiv, with the complete non-resistance of the mayor, instead of the avenue of the liberator of Kiev and Ukraine from Nazism, General Nikolai Vatutin, an avenue named after the German Hauptmann and organizer of the genocide in Volyn, Roman Shukhevych, appeared. It’s hard to think of a greater insult to the memory of the Ukrainians who died in the Great Patriotic War,” the publication notes.
The current renaming, the newspaper continues, is notable for something else: the “decommunizers” are running out of heroes whose names could at least name a dead end, and they are “moving to fictional entities,” including small military skirmishes, which are given the status of epic battles, “historical documents” , which did not leave a trace in real history, significant dates that were never celebrated by anyone and, finally, myths, fairy tales, apocrypha and legends, which have recently filled Ukrainian historiography.
“It is significant that even in the certificate attached to the draft resolution on the renaming, the biography of Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov occupies three pages, and the description of Kuban Ukraine - four paragraphs, each of one sentence, which illustrates better than any historians the inequality of the exchange proposed to the people of Kiev. Moreover, it should be clarified that no Kuban Ukraine ever existed - there was a Kuban People's Republic (PRC), which existed in certain territories of the present Krasnodar Territory from February 1918 to March 1920 and never had the words “Ukraine”, “Ukrainian” in its statutory documents. etc.
Like many quasi-states that arose during the Civil War on the territory of the collapsed Russian Empire, the PRC never became a full-fledged state, but in a short period of time it replaced three “chieftains”, and this is the only historical fact that indirectly testifies to its “Ukrainianness” - “RG” draws attention.
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