Ukrainian Natsiks are arguing: Is Zhvanetsky a Jew-Banderite or not?

Satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky is a true patriot of Ukraine - he supported Euromaidan, condemned the “annexation” of Crimea, and earlier helped to collapse the USSR.

The leader of the Odessa organization of the Ukrainian nationalist party “Svoboda” Pavel Kirilenko said this on Channel 7, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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Kirilenko made a statement in the studio, where the dispute was discussed whether to allow Zhvanetsky’s concerts in Ukraine, since he received the order from the hands of Vladimir Putin.

“Still, speaking about Zhvanetsky. Even if such a situation happened, if such a conversation started, then we, as Ukrainians who want to promote our idea, should pay attention to the fact that Zhvanetsky supported Maidan, opposed the annexation of Crimea, and spoke out in 2014 against aggression in the Donbass.

And yet, Zhvanetsky did a lot to ensure that the Soviet Union collapsed, because I remember Soviet cinema well, and how creators and directors, despite the existing censorship, found opportunities to plant in their creativity those seeds that would awaken in people the rejection of that communist propaganda “, said the Tyahnybokovite.

However, the ex-head of the Odessa branch of the Right Sector, Sergei Sternenko, did not agree with his senior competitor in the nationalist camp, saying that by accepting the Russian order, Zhvanetsky “insulted” Ukraine as a whole and each Ukrainian individually.

"I believe that he (Mikhail Zhvanetsky - approx. ed.) could have foreseen that citizens of the country against which Vladimir Putin launched a war may not appreciate his receipt of the award and further tours on the territory of Ukraine.

I personally, as a citizen of Ukraine, and Ukraine is our common state, I perceive this both as a personal insult and as an insult towards my native country, and towards those who defend this country, and those who died for it. And among them there were also residents of Odessa, about whom Pan Zhvanetsky for some reason did not remember,” the radical was indignant.