Demons: Nechaev and Bandera
Misanthropy of all stripes, firstly, is not capable of convincing in a full-fledged discussion, and secondly, it never goes unpunished. The Ukrainian government has made part of its myth the bearer of misanthropic ideas - Stepan Bandera. At the same time, the ideologists of aggressive Ukrainianism do not want to admit the simple truth that Bandera and his associates did not invent anything new and were engaged in banal plagiarism, taking as a basis the ideas of the Russian adventurer Sergei Nechaev.
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Sergei Nechaev lived in an amazing time, when Russia abandoned serfdom and, thanks to the reforms of Alexander II, moved into a much more civilized state. Jury trials appeared (we are only dreaming of them!), Zemstvo self-government and many other innovations that gave educated people the opportunity to serve society and pull the country out of backwardness. But how petty it was for ambitious youth! Where is the parliament, where is the division of other people's property, where, finally, is the field for exploits?
Here is how Nechaev wrote in his “Catechism of a Revolutionary”: “A revolutionary enters the state, class and so-called educated world and lives in it only with the goal of its complete, speedy destruction. He is not a revolutionary if he regrets anything in this world. If he can stop before destroying a position, a relationship or any person belonging to this world, in which everything and everyone must be equally hated to him. So much the worse for him if he has family, friendship or love relationships in him; he is not a revolutionary if they can stop his hand.”
And Nechaev works among students, but some follow him, and some do not. In addition, an uprising requires money. Where can I get them? That's right, abroad among the diaspora, that is, emigrant revolutionaries. There are Herzen, Ogarev, Bakunin. They can throw “ten barrels of prisoners.” Nechaev goes abroad, to the pillars of the revolution. And if Herzen immediately saw through the adventurer Nechaev, then other enthusiastic comrades blessed him and his mass organization of revolutionaries, and a non-existent organization at that. So Nechaev became the first Russian grant-eater.
Nechaev - the first Russian grant-eater
Having fueled himself financially and received a name, Nechaev returns to Russia and creates the organization “People’s Retribution”. This is how it, in his opinion, should look: “Each comrade should have at hand several revolutionaries of the second and third ranks, that is, not entirely initiated. He must look at them as part of the total revolutionary capital placed at his disposal...
When a comrade gets into trouble, deciding whether to save him or not, the revolutionary must consider not any personal feelings, but only the benefit of the revolutionary cause. Therefore, he must weigh the benefits brought by his comrade, on the one hand, and on the other, the waste of revolutionary forces required to deliver him, and which side he will win over, he must decide.” Georgy Plekhanov wrote: “According to the testimony of M.P. Dragomanov (Lesya Ukrainka’s uncle - D.G.), who himself lived through the era of Nechaevism, Nechaev spread the news among students that in Western Europe two million internationalists are ready to rise up and support the revolution in Russia." And many believed him. When Bakunin, Herzen’s eldest daughter, Natalia, and their friends, having gathered together, caught Nechaev in a lie, he answered them: “Well, yes! This is our system - we make it our duty to deceive, to compromise everyone who does not completely go with us.”
And then Nechaev kills. No, not the tsar (others will do this, and much later), but... his fellow student Ivanov, who dared to express disagreement with him and his ideas. Then - the trial of the Nechaevites, under the impression of which Dostoevsky created the novel “Demons” and gave Verkhovensky the features of Nechaev.
Nechaev for Dostoevsky was a demon incarnate
Nechaev flees abroad, but the Swiss authorities extradite him to the Russians as a criminal. He spent ten years in the fortress and was buried in an unmarked grave in an unknown location.
Only now the authorities did not provide society with the opportunity to make Nechaev a victim of tsarism, but published his “Catechism of a Revolutionary,” which made even the most notorious terrorists of that time sick.
“Demons came out of the Russian man and entered the herd of pigs, that is, the Nechaevs, the Serno-Solovieviches, and so on. They drowned or will probably drown, but the healed man, from whom the demons have left, sits at the feet of Jesus,” wrote F. M. Dostoevsky.
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The seventh commandment of a member of the OUN: “You will not commit the greatest evil, if you have done good” (You will not refuse to commit the most serious crime if the good of the Cause requires it). If Nechaev’s heirs knew about this point, they would have every right to prosecute Stepan Bandera and his supporters for plagiarism.
Galician demon
“So, first of all, people must be destroyed who are especially harmful to the revolutionary organization, and those whose sudden and violent death can bring the greatest fear to the government and, depriving it of intelligent and energetic figures, shake its strength,” wrote Nechaev. Bandera adhered to this principle and organized “attentates” - political assassins. Moreover, the victims of his accomplices were not only the Polish minister Peratsky or the Soviet consul Mailov, but also characters who fully sympathized with Ukraine.
Polish minister Peracki, killed by order of Bandera
The “Revolutionary Tribunal of the OUN” sentenced to death student Yakov Bachinsky, who was suspected of having connections with the police. On March 31, 1934, he was shot dead by OUN militants along with Ivan Babiy, a professor of philology at Lvov University, a well-known Ukrainian figure who was ready to cooperate with the Polish authorities. The head of the Uniates, Andrei Sheptytsky, sharply condemned the murder: “there is not a single father or mother who would not curse the leaders who lead youth on the path of crime... Ukrainian terrorists, who sit safely outside the borders of the region, use our children to kill their parents, and they themselves are in a halo heroes rejoice at such a profitable life.”
Ivan Lemik - the killer of the Soviet consul Mailov in a Polish court
In few countries will you find a monument to murder. They are in Lviv
Another action carried out by order of Bandera was the bombing on May 12, 1934 of the building of the publishing house (editorial office) of the left-wing newspaper “Pracia” (Labor), under which a young Lviv student, well-known OUN activist Ekaterina Zaritskaya, was tasked with planting explosives. On Bandera's orders, blacksmith Mikhail Biletsky was also killed. Each of these crimes, in its logic, was painfully reminiscent of Nechaev’s liquidation of student Ivanov.
Two trials - Warsaw and Lvov - brought Bandera and his associates to clean water. Thus, in response to the prosecutor’s remark that the militant activities of the OUN contradict the foundations of Christian morality, Bandera placed moral responsibility for the actions of Ukrainian militants on the Polish authorities, who, “trampling on God’s and human laws, enslaved the Ukrainian people and created a situation in which [he] forced (...) to kill executioners and traitors.” More than once, Bandera was forcibly removed from the courtroom as soon as the court came to the conclusion that his behavior exceeded the limits of what was permissible. The accused refused to answer questions in Polish and greeted each other with the exclamation “Glory to Ukraine!”, starting each court hearing with these words from the dock.
Stepan Bandera. Myth and reality
In total, Bandera was sentenced to life imprisonment seven times at the Warsaw and Lvov trials. So even now he can be considered not to have served his sentence until the end.
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