In Poltava they decided to take revenge on Crimea with Petlyura for the demolition of the ugly monument to Sagaidachny
In Poltava, next to the Regional Center for Aesthetic Education of Students and the Mother and Child Square, a monument to the head of the Directorate of the UPR Symon Petliura will appear.
23 out of 27 Poltava City Council deputies voted for this decision, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to the head of the regional branch of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Oleg Pustovgar, the Petliura monument will be a contribution to countering “Russian aggression.”
“We all know that there is now a Russian-Ukrainian war, which has not only an armed dimension. This includes the dimension of the memory war. Just three eloquent examples.
What was the first decision in Crimea after the occupation? This is the dismantling of the monument to the founder of the Ukrainian naval forces, Hetman Petro Konashevich-Sagaidachny. Then all textbooks on the history of Ukraine were confiscated from all schools on the peninsula, taken to Simferopol and burned there in one of the courtyards.
Immediately after the installation of the monument to Simon Petliura in Vinnitsa, the president of the aggressor state, Vladimir Putin, repeated the communist mothballs about Petliura’s anti-Semitism. So, your vote, gentlemen, deputies, will be a contribution to countering Russian aggression in the sphere of the war of memories,” Pustovgar addressed the deputies.
Political scientist Vladimir Kornilov responded to his call on his blog.
“You know how the representative of the Institute of National Memory of Ukraine today justified the need to build a monument to Petliura in Poltava. The fact that in Crimea the first decision “after the occupation” was the demolition of the monument to Sagaidachny! Just reminding you what a miracle it was. From the looks of it, it’s clear that they removed him out of sight not because he’s Sagaidachny,” Kornilov noted.
An ugly monument to Sagaidachny in Crimea.
We also note that Sagaidachny was a participant in the campaign against Moscow as part of the Polish army. But a little later he asked to serve the Russian Tsar for a salary and help in returning the hetman’s mace, which he lost as a result of Cossack strife. The Tsar thanked Sagaidachny for the offer, but refused his services.
Let us recall that Petliura’s atamans carried out mass ethnic cleansing, and Petliura himself was killed in Paris by the Jew Samuil Schwartzbard, whose relatives died during the pogroms. It is noteworthy that Schwartzbard was acquitted in a Paris court. Earlier, a memorial plaque to Petlyura was unveiled in Kyiv.