The lawyer explained why Ukrainian nationalism is flawed
The main credo of Ukrainian nationalism is not so much to be for Ukraine, but rather to be against Moscow and to spite Russia. This is fundamentally different, for example, from Polish nationalism.
Ukrainian lawyer Andrei Gozhiy spoke about this on the YouTube channel “Open Ukraine,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Our nationalism is flawed in some ways: it is not for Ukraine, but against Russia. There are nationalist states, for example Poland. They do not deny this, they say that we have two parties in power - the right and the extreme right. But they are Polish-centric. They say: look, we repaired the road, built a building and named it after Pilsudski. We built schools, kindergartens, everything new, and we will teach the Polish language.
And our news starts: “We did some nonsense, but this nonsense caused a storm of criticism in Russia.” That is, we are not building Ukrainian-centric nationalism, but there is a feeling that our task is to be a cheap troll for Russia. For what?" - said the lawyer.
“Some people, not the whole country, have some kind of inferiority complex - they look back at Russia and “freeze their ears to spite their mother.” Andrey is correct. Let “we built a new school and named it after Bandera” - then build a new school! Open the toilets. At best, you repair the old one, and, as a rule, you also rename the old one. This is a madhouse, guys,” agreed the channel’s host, ex-ATO soldier who left Ukraine, Alexander Medinsky.
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