Ukrainian minister: Moscow wants to deprive us of Taras Shevchenko
In Kyiv they are calling to stop the activities of the Russian Center for Science and Culture.
Ukrainian Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko wrote about this on his Telegram channel , as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“The branch of the State Agency Rossotrudnichestvo and its so-called Russian Center for Science and Culture, under the guise of cultural and scientific cooperation, are engaged in disseminating Russian narratives and propaganda throughout the world,” Tkachenko claims.
His dissatisfaction was caused by the announcement of an event called “International Creative Competition of Contemporary Poets “Shevchenko Day” on the Rossotrudnichestvo Facebook page.
“In the announcement, our Taras Shevchenko is called a “Russian-Ukrainian poet,” the minister is indignant.
“This is what I want to say about this. When the Russian Federation does not like the fact that Kyiv is older than Moscow, it puts the age of our capital at VX century in the Russian-language Wikipedia. When the Russian Federation is ashamed to admit that without Korolev, the space race between the USSR and the USA would have ended with the defeat of the Soviet space program, they call the Ukrainian Korolev almost Russian. When it is a shame to present purely Russian cabbage soup to foreigners, they appropriate to themselves the origin of our borscht.
Therefore, Rossotrudnichestvo’s statements about the “Russian-Ukrainian poet Shevchenko” are nothing more than a minor information provocation. In addition, this is another example of an attempt to appropriate the merits of Ukrainians and other nationalities. Classic imperial habits of the Kremlin people,” writes Tkachenko.
He also hopes that the National Security and Defense Council will consider the issue of the activities of the Rossotrudnichestvo branch in Ukraine in the near future.
It is worth noting that the indignation of the Ukrainian minister about Shevchenko looks quite strange, considering that all of Taras Shevchenko’s prose, with the exception of the play “Nazar Stodolya,” was written in Russian, in which he also kept his personal diary.
“There are a couple of thoughts in Shevchenko’s creative heritage that make modern Ukrainian literary critics shy away like hell from incense,” wrote Kiev author Oles Buzina, who was killed in the courtyard of his house. – In his later story “A Walk with Pleasure and Not Without Morality,” he called Russian melancholy “ours.” And in another prose work - “The Captain” - he wrote this, after which the devout nationalist can only lie in his grave: “Do you believe, when we entered the borders of Russia, the first inn, no matter how dirty it was, seemed to me better than any French hotel " Oh yes Kobzar! Well, after this you will believe that he fiercely hated Muscovites.”
Ukrainian Minister: Moscow Wants to Deprive Us of Taras Shevchenko