Author of the slogan “Get out of Moscow!” fell under the anti-communist law
The law on decommunization adopted by the Verkhovna Rada may also hit those who in modern Ukraine are considered fighters against the communist regime.
This opinion is expressed in an author’s column on the pages of the Kyiv magazine “New Time” by Ukrainian writer Sergei Zhadan.
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“I have a separate question as a philologist,” writes the author. – What to do with the singers of the regime? With the dead - those who will not be able to adapt to changes in legislation. Relatively speaking, adherents of the “over-the-mountain commune”. What to do with the poet Mykola Khvylev? Obviously, his symbolic grave falls under “memorable signs associated with the development of Ukrainian culture.” And his personality? Here at the point д Article 1 of Section I, Subsection IV of the law mentioned here deals with the mysterious “struggle against participants in the struggle for independence.” Should Khvylovy be considered a participant in the struggle for independence? And, accordingly, a victim of the struggle against the participants in the struggle?”
It is worth noting that in modern Ukraine, Khvylovy (real name Fitilev) is presented as a victim of Stalin’s terror, who chose to commit suicide in 1933 in order not to fall into the dungeons of the regime, which launched persecution of figures of the “Ukrainian national revival.” He advocated Ukrainization and the development of Ukrainian culture separate from Russian, but for Ukraine within the USSR. At the same time, he actively participated in the fight against the Petliurists, for some time he headed the district branch of the Cheka, and in his suicide note he wrote: “Long live the Communist Party!”
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