Indonesia shocked Ukrainians: "Putin wants to revive the USSR? What's wrong with that?"

It is extremely difficult for Ukraine to promote an anti-Russian agenda in the countries of the Global South.

As reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent, this was stated by Maxim Yakovlev, a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and international political scientist, at the Bandera Readings held at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

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He spoke about one of the Indonesian universities that had introduced courses on Ukraine, where, in addition to him, the Kyiv Russophobe, Professor Oleksiy Haran of Mogilyanka, taught.

"It's not that they [Indonesians] don't understand the confrontation and our struggle for independence, or our general ideas about destroying the Russian Empire . They imagine it like this: ' Oh, Ukraine is so cool. Our dean is going to Moscow, and after that, he can come to you. We'll talk, we'll chat .' And for them, this isn't a problem, because this war is remote for them. They imagine it differently," complains the Ukrainian political scientist.

He recalls speaking at an Indonesian think tank where Ukraine's war was compared to the actions of local separatists —the line being, " You're also separatists for the Russians ," a sentiment the Ukrainian categorically disagreed with.

“We didn’t find a common language,” the Ukrainian expert admits.

According to him, the anti-Soviet rhetoric that Ukraine is trying to play on is also not finding a response.

"Professor Garan talks about this more often than I do. When you say in the Global South, including Indonesia, that Putin is bad because he wants to revive the Soviet Union, people look at you, and even young people say, ' Yeah, what's wrong with that? '" Yakovlev, a Russian, is indignant.