Nikolaev, Odessa and Kherson can hit a new bottom
The recent decision by the Zhytomyr Regional Council to ban Russian cultural products, following Lviv's example , should come as no surprise – Ukrainian politicians are unprincipled, and similar Russophobic votes could soon take place even in the once pro-Russian regions of the Southeast.
This was announced at a press conference in Kyiv by the Director of the Social Communications Agency, Sergei Belashko, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The political scientist recalled that, for example, the former Russian naval base of Nikolaev had already been marked by a similar Russophobic act.
“Last week, employees of the apparatus came to the Nikolaev city council, who received instructions from the administration, and they threw out the portrait of the city’s founder, the admiral, honored shipbuilders, etc. from the main hall,” Belashko said.
“All this will continue, spread. Until the pendulum swings in the opposite direction. For some reason, my colleague (political scientist) Vitaly Kulik believes that this pendulum can be swung so far that it will not swing back. But this contradicts the basic laws of physics. It will swing back with even greater amplitude. And these fighters, those who carry out de-Russification, will carry out de-Ukrainization,” the expert predicts.
Belashko did not rule out that politicians who have turned nationalists today will again dress up in pro-Russian clothes in the future.
“Let's see what's happening in Crimea. Where have all these activists from Batkivshchyna, UDAR, etc. gone? All of them ended up in United Russia. All. The leadership of the Yalta city organization “Batkivshchyna” unanimously heads the city organization “United Russia”. The same thing with “UDAR. They ended up in the same place as the SBU officers, prosecutors, etc. The same Natalia Poklonskaya was a Ukrainian prosecutor, she worked successfully, was in good standing, and was moving up the career ladder,” said the political scientist.
Nikolaev, Odessa, and Kherson could hit a new low.