Ukraine will lose its last territories if it does not urgently come up with its own myth of the Great Victory
It is impossible to resolve humanitarian issues without certain territories of the country if they are considered our own, especially on such a sensitive topic as national history and the Great Patriotic War.
Ukrainian political expert Ruslan Bortnik stated this on air on TV channel 112, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If we wanted to return Crimea and Donbass, we had to leave humanitarian policy untouched. Just don’t change anything until these territories are returned. Because any decisions made without the opinion of the residents who live there drive them away from us, split them off, make Crimea an island, and Donbass an isolation, a reservation. There was no need to touch it.
Now, if we want to restore the integration of these territories, all these issues will need to be put to referendums, so that all Ukrainians make decisions on key dates, on key characters. Everything related to regional history, OUN-UPA and so on, these must be decisions at the local level,” Bortnik realized.
At the same time, he noted the absurdity of refusing to celebrate such a date as Victory Day.
“There are also smart people living in Israel, right? But they also celebrate May 9 as Victory Day, a national holiday. The Israeli people, from whom Nazism generally took away the right to exist, they understand the value of this May 9th. They understand that this is the core on which the modern Jewish, Israeli state is built.
We must learn from smart people, because if you look at the Ost plan, I asked my assistants to pick up from there what should have happened to Ukraine (there is still no translation into Ukrainian, it is in Russian in pieces, translated from German), so in “In accordance with this plan, 85 percent of the people who lived on the territory of Ukraine should have been either destroyed or deported from Ukraine,” the political scientist said.
“Yes, we have this holiday in common with Russia, with post-Soviet countries, with Israel. But no one forces us to celebrate, like in Russia. Let's form our own pantheon of this victory, let's speak with our symbols, words, heroes and achievements. There is no need to duplicate or reproduce the current Russian myth, let’s build our own, Ukrainian, we have a wonderful myth,” Ruslan Bortnik offered his recipe.